About the Journal

Focus and Scope

“Italiano a scuola” (Italian at school) is a scientific journal promoted by the “Associazione per la Storia della Lingua Italiana – Sezione Scuola” and by the Department of Classical Philology and Italian Studies of the Bononia University. In line with the objectives of ASLI Scuola, it is proposed as a space for communication, reflection and debate on issues related to the teaching of the Italian language in all school, university and professional training levels.

The journal hosts works with the character of linguistic research or teaching experience reports and is open to contributions of an interdisciplinary nature whose focus is on the Italian language and its teaching.

The journal accepts presentation and validation contributions of teaching methods for teaching various aspects of the Italian language or dedicated to illustrating theoretical perspectives and experiences related to the teaching of language skills, vocabulary and grammar, to text teaching in all its forms, also with reference to new digital textualities. Contributions dedicated to moments of history of Italian teaching, to Italian teaching in multilingual classes or in foreign school contexts are accepted.

Peer Review Process

Acceptance of articles for publication is subject to a double-blind peer-review. The two anonymous referees are chosen on the basis of their specific competences and research fields. Papers are evaluated according to several criteria as listed in an “evaluation card”, which meets international scientific standards for journals. By submitting an article, the author implicitly accepts the double blind peer review process. The Editorial Board will give a judgement both in case of approval or non-approval of the article, within two months from the date of submission. The article will be published online within six months after the evaluation.

Editors-in-Chief and the Editorial Board implement all reasonable measures to ensure that articles are free from plagiarism (including by employing appropriate software). Editors-in-Chief handles conflicts of interest and disputes in accordance with the Code of Ethics.

Publication Frequency

This journal publishes annually.

Open Access Policy

This journal provides immediate open access to its content on the principle that making research freely available to the public supports a greater global exchange of knowledge.

It releases its articles under the terms of Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0).

This license allows anyone to download, reuse, re-print, modify, distribute and/or copy the contributions. The works must be properly attributed to its author(s). It is not necessary to ask further permissions both to author(s) or journal board, although you are kindly requested to inform the journal for every reuse of the papers.

Authors who publish on this journal maintain the copyrights.

Authors are welcome to post the final draft post-refereeing (postprint) on a personal website, a collaborative wiki, departmental website, social media websites, institutional repository or non-commercial subject-based repositories.

The journal has neither article processing charges nor submission processing fees.

Publication Ethics

“Italiano a scuola” adopts the AlmaDL Journals Code of Ethics.

The code is inspired by the guidelines from the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE), in particular to the COPE Core Practices and its Principles of Transparency and Best Practice in Scholarly Publishing.

All parties involved in the editorial process, editorial staff members, authors, reviewers must know and apply the ethical principles of that document.

Data Policy

When relevant, authors are encouraged to follow Open Science and FAIR principles by publishing the research data associated to their articles in trusted data repositories, according to the international best practices and data management guidelines.

Detailed information is reported in the AlmaDL Journals Data Policy.

Authors who are affiliated to the University of Bologna can publish their data in AMSActa, the institutional research data repository.

Indexing and Abstracting

The Journal is indexed in the following databases and search engines:

Archiving Policy

The University of Bologna has an archival arrangement with the National Central Libraries of Florence and Rome within the national project Magazzini Digitali.
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Publisher

Dipartimento di Filologia Classica e Italianistica – FICLIT
Alma Mater Studiorum – Università di Bologna

Via Zamboni, 32
40126 - Bologna (Italy)

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