L'ATTIVITÀ DI RETROVERSIONE NELLA CLASSE DI ITALIANO LS (A1-B 1).

The practice of using translation in language teaching has recently regained respectability as an eminently communicative activity, being expected to enhance L2 acquisition. However, if several theoretical assumptions are indeed rehabilitating this technique, the practical, and above all experimental front is still seeking attention. This paper offers three teaching sequences centred on pedagogical translation and, in particular, prose aimed at Anglophone learners reading any subject at University level It will be suggested that the prose class, by allowing to objectify the process of transferring meaning from L1 to L2, is an irreplaceable pedagogical tool leading to complex interlinguistic evaluations. The directional asymmetry it entails is a resource not to be overlooked even within a bilingual and bicultural syllabus targeting lower levels of competence (A1-B1). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]