Valutazione e nuove tecnologie nell’ambito del Progetto Marco Polo - Turandot

Evaluation and New Technologies in the Context of the Marco Polo - Turandot Project. The Marco Polo - Turandot Project of the University of Modena e Reggio Emilia provides Italian as a Second Language courses for young-adult Chinese students. The educational path is supplemented by a course on Italian Culture and Civilization which aims to introduce Chinese students to the fundamental elements of Italian culture in the form of lessons in L2 following the CLIL methodology. In the 2020/21 Project, due to the Covid-19 pandemic, lessons and testing activities were conducted online from the beginning of the course in November 2020 to April 2021; after that date the teaching activity was carried out in a mixed mode. Distance learning had a significant impact on evaluation and testing activities in both language and culture courses. In this work we will describe the different testing methods adopted during these months, the digital tools and the new technologies chosen to implement them. We will compare the different evaluation methods using data from surveys presented to students. We will also focus on the problems that emerged and on the impact of distance learning on the learning path of the students.