Teaching Italian for specific purposes to foreigner students through the Moodle platform

This paper presents an e-learning project using the Moodle platform (Modular Object-Oriented Dynamic Learning Environment) to integrate Italian lesson for specific purposes with a course on Pharmacology to foreign students enrolled at the University of Calabria, and discusses how the system was managed for optimizing learning. Instruction was provided through the concepts underpinning Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL).The Work Unit is divided into three phases: 1) Observation and analyses of the language model (language decomposition and analysis; comparison of the observation and the text data in asynchrony (wiki) and semi-asynchrony, chat and forum; 2) Collaborative writing (through wiki) by small groups in the forum in order to create the learning object through a given model; 3) Comparison of the construed objects: each group assesses the work carried out by the other groups (workshop) based on an evaluation grid prepared by the teacher and the students.