L’italiano e l’alfabeto per i nuovi arrivati

In recent years, thousands of refugees and asylum seekers have arrived at the port of Palermo, including a large number of teenagers without any adult caregivers. They are called Unaccompanied Minors. A significant part of them remain in the city and are placed in Italian language courses of the University of Palermo, (ItaStra), within a large inclusion project. The focus of this paper will be address to describe this new profile of learner: they are minors, 15 to 17 years old, without much formal education or training, without competent skills in reading or writing, but with a vast life experience in a multilingual environment and exposure to learning a diversity of new languages

DAI BARCONI ALL’UNIVERSITÀ. PERCORSI DI INCLUSIONE LINGUISTICA PER MINORI STRANIERI NON ACCOMPAGNATI

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GIOVANI IN MOVIMENTO: MULTILINGUI, CONNESSI, SPESSO ANALFABETI. UNA NUOVA MIGRAZIONE FRA RISORSE E BISOGNI

Le recenti migrazioni di giovani che viaggiano da soli, arrivati di recente in Italia attraverso la rotta del Mediterraneo, mostrano nuove caratteristiche in termini di profili individuali e di esperienze di connessioni digitali. Essi hanno acquisito nuove competenze, saperi e punti di vista durante il lungo periodo di spostamento e al momento dell’arrivo in Italia. Inoltre, la mobilità è spesso accompagnata da una segregazione fisica e spaziale nei contesti di transito e di arrivo. Questo articolo focalizza l’attenzione sulle risorse e sulle necessità (anche di tipo linguistico) di questi giovani e sulle esperienze didattiche di ItaStra.   Young people on the move: multilingual, connected, often without literacy. A new migration between resources and needs Recent migrations of young people who travel alone and who have recently arrived in Italy via the Mediterranean route show new characteristics in terms of individual profiles and experience of digital connections. These young people acquired new skills, knowledge, and points of view during the long period of displacement and upon arrival in Italy. Moreover, mobility is often accompanied by physical and spatial segregation in transit and arrival contexts. This paper focuses on resources and needs (also linguistic) of these young people during ItaStra’s ten-year teaching experience

INTRODUZIONE. IL MODELLO DI ITASTRA

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INTRODUZIONE. IL MODELLO DI ITASTRA

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DAI BARCONI ALL’UNIVERSITÀ. PERCORSI DI INCLUSIONE LINGUISTICA PER MINORI STRANIERI NON ACCOMPAGNATI

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Water level changes in Lake Van, Turkey, during the past ca. 600 ka: climatic, volcanic and tectonic controls

Sediments of Lake Van, Turkey, preserve one of the most complete records of continental climate change in the Near East since the Middle Pleistocene. We used seismic reflection profiles to infer past changes in lake level and discuss potential causes related to changes in climate, volcanism, and regional tectonics since the formation of the lake ca. 600 ka ago. Lake Van's water level ranged by as much as 600 m during the past 600 ka. Five major lowstands occurred, at 600, 365-340, 290-230, 150-130 and 30-14 ka. During Stage A, between about 600 and 230 ka, lake level changed dramatically, by hundreds of meters, but phases of low and high stands were separated by long time intervals. Changes in the lake level were more frequent during the past 230 ka, but less dramatic, on the order of a few tens of meters. We identified period B1 as a time of stepwise transgressions between 230 and 150 ka, followed by a short regression between ca. 150 and 130 ka. Lake level rose stepwise during period B2, until 30 ka. During the past 30 ka, a regression and a final transgression occurred, each lasting about 15 ka. The major lowstand periods in Lake Van occurred during glacial periods, suggesting climatic control on water level changes (i.e. greatly reduced precipitation led to lower lake levels). Although climate forcing was the dominant cause for dramatic water level changes in Lake Van, volcanic and tectonic forcing factors may have contributed as well. For instance, the number of distinct tephra layers, some several meters thick, increases dramatically in the uppermost 100 m of the sediment record (i.e. the past 230 ka), an interval that coincides largely with low-magnitude lake level fluctuations. Tectonic activity, highlighted by extensional and/or compressional faults across the basin margins, probably also affected the lake level of Lake Van in the past