La narrazione come strumento didattico e di ricerca nell'esperienza di ItaStra

The paper illustrates the role of narrative in the teaching and research model built by the Italian language school for Foreigners of the University of Palermo (ItaStra). In particular, we discuss the three pillars on which the narrative model is based: the linguistic autobiography (§ 2); the artistic and narrative labs (§ 3); narrative as a meta-communicative practice. In the last section (§ 5), we focus the fact that narrative could help teachers to broaden their reflective capacity about teaching; at the other hand, narrative supports the construction of a learning community in which multilingualism plays a central role.