Lingue in scena. Una riflessione teorica sul potenziale dei festival cinematografici internazionali in quanto contesti di apprendimento linguistico situato e di mediazione interculturale per adult L2 learners
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https://doi.org/10.15162/2974-8933/2519Keywords:
film festivals, informal language learning, situated learning, intercultural mediation, cinema and language educationAbstract
The article conceptualizes international film festivals as extended linguistic environments where adult L2 learning emerges through participation in authentic cultural practices rather than explicit pedagogy. The study adopts a qualitative theoretical-analytical framework, bringing situated learning into dialogue with an infrastructural reading of festivals as time-events and temporary cultural infrastructures (de Valck 2007; Harbord 2009; Harbord 2016). The object of analysis is not the festival “in itself”, but the set of linguistic and discursive practices activated by the festival experience. A functional mapping is proposed of: textual materials (films in the original version with subtitles), paratextual materials (catalogues, synopses, digital platforms), public extratextual practices (Q&A sessions, talks, masterclasses), and informal interactions.
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