Pre-service teachers´ beliefs about the effect of previously learned languajes when learning italian as L3

Abstract

"The purpose of this research project is know the students ‘opinions and perceptions about the role of the previously learned languages, Spanish and English, when learning Italian as a third language; as well as to describe what is the effect that those languages have over the students when learning Italian as a third language. In other words this research pretends to uncover under what conditions and in what way prior experience and knowledge of the first language (L1) and second language (L2) might influence the subsequent acquisition processes. This present investigation adopted a qualitative approach, in which the instrument “talk around the text” which consisted of an analysis of the student’s books and an interview about the analysis was needed in order to gather the information that this investigation required."