Università Roma Tre

1. Reject some of the most common prejudices and popular ideas about language and languages and to replace them with the acquisitions of current research in the sciences of language.
2. Provide some sound background in order to enhance the students' foreign language learning.
3. Enhance linguistic awareness in students in order to improve their command of written Italian, and their capability of teaching it, both to native speakers and to L2 speakers of Italian.
4. Provide the would-be Primary School teachers with the linguistic knowledge involved in primary literacy teaching.
5. Provide the would-be Primary School teachers with a better alternative to traditional grammar as still taught at school