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dc.title	Variatio delectat: The Need for Variety of Sociolinguistic Models in Language Teaching
dc.contributor.author	Santipolo Matteo
dc.publisher	Edizioni Ca’ Foscari - Digital Publishing
dc.type	Research Article
dc.language.iso	it
dc.identifier.uri	http://edizionicafoscari.it/en/edizioni4/riviste/elle/2016/3/variatio-delectat-ossia-della-necessita-della-vari/
dc.description.abstract	Variation is a physiological aspect of any living language and it cannot be left out of the language class without limiting or even strongly compromising the learner’s actual communicative success in that language. After shortly illustrating some examples of what effects variation has produced in Latin, English and Spanish, the contribution moves on to explaining the main problems and the most relevant advantages (variety as an antidote to boredom) that may derive from properly introducing variation in the language class. The final part of the paper suggests how this can be done by presenting such concepts as sociolinguistic conscience, consciousness and competence, utility and usability and the idea of a ‘variable model class’ lying at the basis of a ‘Bespoke language teaching’ approach.
dc.relation.ispartof	EL.LE
dc.relation.ispartof	Vol. 5 \| Issue 3 \| November 2016
dc.issued	2016-11-01
dc.dateSubmitted	2016-12-05
dc.identifier.issn
dc.identifier.eissn	2280-6792
dc.rights	Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.identifier.doi	10.14277/2280-6792/ELLE-5-3-0
dc.peer-review	no
dc.subject	Language varieties in the foreign language class
dc.subject	Language varieties in the foreign language class
dc.subject	Sociolinguistics
dc.subject	Sociolinguistics
dc.subject	Teaching sociolinguistic variation
dc.subject	Teaching sociolinguistic variation

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Variatio delectat: The Need for Variety of Sociolinguistic Models in Language Teaching

Matteo Santipolo Università degli Studi di Padova, Italia

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Variation is a physiological aspect of any living language and it cannot be left out of the language class without limiting or even strongly compromising the learner’s actual communicative success in that language. After shortly illustrating some examples of what effects variation has produced in Latin, English and Spanish, the contribution moves on to explaining the main problems and the most relevant advantages (variety as an antidote to boredom) that may derive from properly introducing variation in the language class. The final part of the paper suggests how this can be done by presenting such concepts as sociolinguistic conscience, consciousness and competence, utility and usability and the idea of a ‘variable model class’ lying at the basis of a ‘Bespoke language teaching’ approach.

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Nov. 1, 2016

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Keywords: Sociolinguistics • Teaching sociolinguistic variation • Language varieties in the foreign language class

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