The L2 Students’ Perception of Assessment in an Academic Context: a Case Study

Abstract

Immigration is a phenomenon that has become all the more relevant in our society. Such effects of people moving from one country to another are even present in academic and didactic contexts; this has resulted the need to develop organized Italian language courses for foreign adults that not only teach the endemic language, but also adequately satisfy the different students’ needs. This dissertation thus aims to explore the world of Italian as a Second Language (L2), and will take a look at the particular problem of evaluating these students through the analysis of questionnaires. These questionnaires were given to teachers and students attending CTP Italian L2 courses at the L.Einaudi middle school in Marghera.