On the fiftieth anniversary of the Ten Theses of GISCEL (1975-2025), the fifth issue of the journal is dedicated to linguistic variation and the different varieties of language, with the aim of emphasising not only their scientific relevance, but also their important educational and civic value for today's schools.
Although the school and teaching context is often still considered rigid and structured according to traditional patterns, this view contrasts with the challenges posed by the growing focus of language education on diachronic, diatopic, diaphasic, diastratic and diamesic varieties. These, in fact, can raise a series of difficult questions regarding the most effective approaches to promoting a more complete development of language skills, particularly communicative skills.
The contributions in this issue revolve around this general theme, with three in the Studies and Research section and three in the Teaching Experiences section, in addition to reviews and recommendations of works and tools useful for updating teaching strategies with original and current ideas.
To coincide with the release of the fifth issue of the journal, a call for papers has been launched for contributions to the sixth issue, dedicated to a topic of ever-great interest and relevance: errors from a teaching perspective. The deadline for submissions is 15 May 2026.
Gli articoli di questo numero
Editorial
Studies and research
- Una proposta di rilettura dell’“italiano scolastico” con note su tre testi dei fondi speciali SUPSI-DFA/ASP
Laura Baranzini, Luca Cignetti, Wolfgang Sahlfeld - Costruire la competenza sociolinguistica e discorsiva nelle interrogazioni di storia in terza primaria
Elisa De Roberto, Sabrina Rizzello - Pratiche linguistiche consapevoli per il benessere e l’inclusione in contesti scolastici superdiversi
Margherita Potrich, Fabiana Rosi
Teaching experiences
- La scrittura giornalistica come strumento di democrazia: un’esperienza didattica
Teresa Carbutti - Dalla lettura alla scena: la didattica della letteratura come laboratorio per l’educazione linguistica
Viviana Reda - Variazione in termini di (s)cortesia nella classe plurilingue. Esperienze didattiche dal progetto PLÙRIMA
Thomas Vona
Reviews and recommendations
- Moreno Bonda (a cura di), L’italiano dei giovani e per i giovani. Glottodidattica dell’italiano LS, Vytauto Didžiojo universitetas, 2024.
Anna Mantovani, Salvatore Varriale - Fabio Caon, La canzone nell’educazione linguistica. Lingua, (inter)cultura e letteratura, Torino, UTET, 2023.
Stefano Negrinelli - Angelo Nobile (a cura di), Dizionario di letteratura giovanile, Morcellana-Scholé, 2025.
Luca Cignetti - Valentina Bianchi, La grammatica cambia volto. Osservazioni sui testi scolastici dal Settecento al decennio preunitario, Pacini Editore, 2025.
Simone Fornara - Cristiana De Santis, Che cos’è la grammatica valenziale (nuova edizione), Roma, Carocci, 2025.
Silvia Demartini
The publication is open access and is available in its entirety on the journal's website: www.rivistadidit.ch.