Atti delle II giornate di formazione per insegnanti di italiano L2/LS a Cipro

This practical experience shows the introductory class to a single course on Antonio Tabucchi, as part of a M.A. degree course in Italian (Literature and Translation Studies). The course duration is six months. The class is based on one of Antonio Tabucchi’s short stories, “Messaggio dalla penombra” (A. Tabucchi, “I volatili del Beato Angelico”, Sellerio 1987), dealt with an integrated approach (Liddicoat, Scarino, 2013:4) that starts with a motivating listening task, and gradually increases the students’ active participation, from a guided to a completely autonomous and independent learning. The teacher’s role is that of facilitating the students’ insight and eliciting their own guesses while listening and reading the short story. The humanistic-affective approach used (Caon, 2006:3), favouring above all concentration through a relaxing environment in the class, encourages students to express their hypotheses and to exploit their own receptive abilities of the text; moreover, this approach stimulates the students’ interest and involvement, turning a simple reading task into a lively dialogue with the author. KEY WORDS Short story, listening, reading, dialogue, involvement, empathy.