"Ho studiato cinema e non pensavo di insegnare italiano”. L’insegnante di italiano all’estero: profili, formazione e proposte

The role of Italian teacher as foreign language that leaves Italy to teach abroad is interesting. This profile represents Italy through the own personal linguistic and cultural heritage, and it is a privileged depositary and bearer of Italian language and culture taught in many foreign institutions. Scientific literature placed question about this professional role in second language and in foreign language, but the attention of research is concentrated almost exclusively on linguistic and educative point of view, first privileging professional and educative features and after taking care of personal feeling as “citizen”. This research proposes to investigate skills of Italian teacher for foreigners, and the aim will be to define the right profile to convey Italian language around the world. The method of this research is qualitative, and survey was done through a questionnaire on Google, widespread on social media and sent to many teachers of various institutions. This research tries to focus on educational linguistics perspectives. Furthermore, obtained answers from hundreds interviewed allow a framing profile, professional needs and individual ambitions of life.