L’acquisizione dei profili intonativi di italiano L2 attraverso un’unità di apprendimento in modalità blended learning

This study assumes that adopting specific teaching techniques can improve learners’ recognition and production of the prosodic features of Italian L2, with special reference to some particular intonation contours. In fact, according to this assumption, which is supported in the literature also by neurological motivations, adult learners are not subject to evolution in the suprasegmental features that contribute to the characterization of the so called “foreign accent”. In this study, we analyse the effectiveness of training in the production and perception of some intonational patterns: polar questions and exclamatives. The intonational analysis is supported and integrated by an auditory evaluation on the adequacy of intonation patterns produced by different learners in different experimental phases.