Plurilingualism, awareness, and inclusion. An identity text experience in an Italian school

In the recent years the linguistic diversity in Italian schools has been increasing due to a higher presence of students with a migration background. The Italian Ministry of Education sees the opportunities offered by this new plurilingualism, which found its place side by side with the traditional forms carried by the Italian historical minorities, however not all the schools are ready to introduce a plurilingual education. Since 2021, the Impact FVG project of University of Udine has been working in schools to test innovative strategies aimed at fostering a higher visibility of all the codes present in the classrooms, in order to promote a deeper awareness in all the students. Part of this field-testing phase resorted to a blended learning approach and invited the plurilingual students to participate to an inclusive project which involved the planning and writing of texts connected to linguistic biographies and identities.