The second edition of IALM's advanced training course "Teaching and Learning Minority Languages", dedicated to learning linguistic, didactic and cultural skills for teaching German-speaking languages and cultures of Bavarian origin in Italy, ended at the Cimbrian Kulturinstitut Lusérn, with three days of intense workshop activities attended by some thirty students and auditors from outside the region.
The course, organised by the Department of Letters and Philosophy of the University of Trento, with the support of the Province's Language Minorities and External Relations Service, placed particular emphasis on the study of Cimbrian, Mocheno, Sappadino, Saurano, Timavese and German from Val Canale (Friuli-Venezia Giulia).
The disciplines covered included minority and contact linguistics, multilingual acquisition, glottodidactics of minority languages, Italian and EU law on minority communities, Alpine anthropology and intangible cultural heritage, and the history and historiography of linguistic borders.
The training course, which took place partly face-to-face and partly online and was coordinated by Ermenegildo Bidese and Federica Ricci Garotti, professors of German linguistics at the University of Trento, concluded in Luserna with a lecture on "Rights, minority languages and linguistic diversity" given by Jens Woelk, professor of comparative public law at the University of Trento and the rector's delegate for initiatives on linguistic minorities.
Publication date: 09/09/2024
