POSTMETHOD AND CULTURE IN ITALIAN/FL TEACHING-LEARNING

Abstract

This article discusses some questions and some initial reflections regarding culture in the teaching-learning of italian as a foreign language from the perspective of Postmethod Pedagogy, developed by Kumaravadivelu, which has at its core a didactic commitment, but also – and that is why it sets it apart – a political commitment. Of a bibliographic and exploratory nature, the discussion also sought to verify a possible applicability of the aforementioned pedagogy based on an activity present in the cultural section of the manual Nuovissimo Progetto Italiano 1, from the publisher Edilingua. The partial results demonstrated that it is possible to apply the Postmethod in the classroom, as long as teachers and students make use of other inputs, as the manual's vocabulary proved insufficient to achieve this purpose.