L’insegnamento dell’italiano nelle università cinesi: excursus storico, situazione attuale e prospettive future

Abstract

From my experience teaching Italian, the encounter between Chinese and Italian proves highly complex due to morphosyntactic and phonological factors. A major difficulty for Chinese learners is understanding Italian sentence structure, which lacks classifiers that in Chinese regulate organization. This and other differences often restrict knowledge of Italian to a basic level. Overcoming it requires long effort, as many studies confirm. Even after years, many Chinese speakers communicate effectively but rely on incorrect linguistic strategies. The teacher’s role is to guide them beyond the basic level and help them acquire linguistic, sociolinguistic, and pragmatic-textual skills.