“Com es diu en italià rovell?” “Il rosso d’uovo…”. Osservare l’interazione esolingue in contesto scolastico per delineare strategie di comunicazione efficaci

This paper focuses on the topic of exolingual interaction in the school context, more specifically on the strategies employed by teachers during lessons conducted according to the principles of intercomprehension. Its innovative contribution lies in offering, for the first time, an insight into the teachers’ perspective rather than that of the learners. In particular, the aim is to observe and compare the communication strategies used by two experienced teachers in this pluralistic approach—one a Portuguese speaker and the other a Catalan speaker—during classroom interaction with Italian-speaking primary school students. The paper seeks to examine the teachers’ practices and reflect on which strategies are most effective not only for the practice of intercomprehension, but also for its teaching.