Project funded by UNINT – Third Mission/Social Impact call (a.y. 2023/2024)
Project Managers: Barbara Altomonte, UNINT lecturer, Manuela Frontera, UNINT lecturer, Laura Mori, UNINT Full Professor, Lucilla Pizzoli, UNINT Associate Professor.
The initiative
Meetings and readings to travel between cultures. For girls and boys from nursery to primary school.
A space dedicated to books and readings for the youngest children and their parents is available to everyone in the University library in Via delle Sette Chiese, 139 (Rome).
From September to October, with a launch scheduled for the European Day of Languages, the UNINT library becomes a space open to the multilingual and multicultural city, hosting regular reading sessions. The meetings are held by professionals and volunteers trained to promote parents' ability to grow with their sons and daughters, accompanying them in their cognitive development thanks to the collaboration between the University Language Center and the “Nati per leggere” (Born to Read) initiative.
The series of meetings “Più lingue per leggere” (More languages to read) offers families with children aged between two and eleven free moments of participatory reading in multiple languages, with an eye on cultures, societies and the history of Europe and the world.
Activities will be geared towards facilitating inclusion by eliminating linguistic and cultural barriers. Each meeting will be an opportunity to create together new texts and materials to build new adventures in multiple languages.
Events
A look at the cultures, societies, history of Europe and the world
The meetings
From September to October, the UNINT library becomes a space open to the multilingual and multicultural city, hosting fixed reading moments. The meetings are held by professionals and volunteers trained to promote the ability of parents to grow with their sons and daughters, accompanying them in their cognitive development thanks to the collaboration between the University Language Centre and the initiative “Born to read".
The meetings are conducted in Italian, where possible also accompanied by Italian sign language (LIS) on the following dates:
- September 26, 2024 | 15:30 PM – 18:00 PM | English and Portuguese
- September 28, 2024 | 10:00 – 13:00 | Spanish and Chinese
- October 5, 2024 | 10:00 – 13:00 | French and Arabic
- October 12, 2024 | 10:00 – 13:00 | Japanese and English
- October 19, 2024 | 10:00 – 13:00 | Russian and German
- October 26, 2024 | 10:00 – 13:00 | Arabic and Spanish
Objectives
Opening of the University to citizens, with a focus on a specific segment: families with children with a multilingual background.
The project has the following specific objectives:
- become a garrison Born to Read inside the Town Hall;
- promote volunteering for inclusive purposes by financing and supporting the training of deserving teachers, students and alumni interested in this activity:
- allow participant observation of adult/child interactional dynamics and collaborative practices also useful for research purposes in the sociolinguistic and linguistic educational fields.
Actions
The project involves 3 phases:
- phase 1. selection of a group of UNINT students and alumni interested in participating in the NPL training days financed by the project;
- phase 2: NPL training course and orientation of new volunteers with respect to the project objectives;
- phase 3. Establishment of the “NPL Presidium” and start of a possible collaboration within the “Mamma lingua” and carrying out a cycle of n. 6 meetings aimed at the public targeted by the initiative.
Impact
Promote plurilingual literacy by applying the methodology developed by Nati Per Leggere (NPL).
Establish a NpL Presidium that becomes a point of reference within a neighborhood characterized by a social stratification to be enhanced by starting a collaboration with the project Mother tongue.
Promote the dynamics of cooperation between peers in pre-school age, possibly extended to the 6-10 age group through a playful approach aimed at promoting multilingualism and its inclusive potential.
Indicators
- Knowledge questionnaire to be administered at the beginning of each of the multilingual reading meetings planned to collect socio-cultural and linguistic biography information;
- final evaluation form to be filled in at the end of the event to monitor the effect of the initiative with respect to the project objectives.
Contact details
E-mail: linguaperleggere@unint.eu
