0 How Multilinguism perception has changed in Italy in the last decades

Living in a Country which has a different mother language from ours is not that easy. A lot of people indeed, consider the linguistic difference as an obstacle to children growth and to guys development; beyond the practical issues of fully understanding people around us and interact with society, there is also the common habit of people to be mentally closed to the ones who don’t speak their language and so, in some way, seem to be different from them.

“I’m in my place, they have to learn my language if they want to live in my Country” it’s the common thought of old generation about this issue.

At school, multilinguism is an issue that must be approached, because in Italy there is a constantly increase of foreign students. Immigrants’ sons very often continue to use their mother language at home and this doesn’t obviously help them in learning Italian. Try to think about the difficulties that Italian children have when learning English; what if in the future you will be forced, for business reasons, to change Country? Are you sure that you will do the right thing and will speak to your sons in the new language even at home? How would your sons react if put in a completely different social contest?

Anyway multilinguism must not be considered as an handicap, but as a treasure: everyone perceives reality in a subjective way and this subjectiveness is influenced by nothing but our cultural background, which in turn is made by our native tongue and by our culture. The language is then the obvious vehicle with which we can understand reality and consequently, meeting persons who speak another language can offer us nothing but different and new instruments to evaluate the reality that surround us; opening your mind, trying to deeply understand the linguistic dynamics that in a diachronic perspective have led to the formation and use of certain words or lexical expressions of a certain language, allow to go deeper not just in the knowledge of a language, but also on the interactive mechanism of a language with its people. That’s why learning foreign languages helps children to naturally develop an open-minded attitude, which will help them in understanding others’ culture.

The importance of children multilinguism arrives also from Telgate Village, near Bergamo area, where City Service, with the support of two Lega representatives, Daniele Belotti and Davide Caparini , has promoted a experimental alphabetization program for foreign students in the primary school of the village. The program has been publicly presented at a meeting that took place Wednesday the 26th October, 2011. The City Service decided to take on the 25.000 Euros of the program plus the 18.000 Euros of the excellence course (costs of the projects per year) to go towards the needs of 35% of Telgate primary school students, who come from other European and non-European Countries and don’t have sufficient knowledge of Italian language.

Article written by Serena Rigato

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