Insegnando fraseologismi russi agli italofoni: applicazioni pratiche

L2 learners must be encouraged to integrate phraseological units into speech. As phraseology is acquired, language learners face the specificity of the language, thus getting closer to its speakers’ culture. This paper presents methodological techniques for teaching Russian phraseology to Italian speakers. The techniques were tried out on 16 fourth-year Italian-speaking (B1+/B2 level) University of Turin students, who were engaged in activities aimed at stimulating the formation and development of intercultural competence. The learners worked on interlanguage phraseological correspondences and usage with the help of the Russian National Corpus and different types of dictionaries. The RNC is useful because it supplies the extended meaning and context of use of phrasemes. It was observed that activities based on the use of images, including illustrations found on Instagram, and didactic games seems to facilitate learning and encourage the students to be creative.