AN INTEGRATED TRILINGUAL PROJECT FOR THE CHILDREN OF THE PRE-PRIMARY SCHOOL IN AYAS VALLEY

The Autonomous Aosta Valley Region is a unique linguistic reality within the Italian Republic; in its side-valleys different languages and cultures have overlapped for centuries and are still alive today in various ways. In one of them, the Ayas Valley, Francoprovencal, Italian, and French, known and spoken to different degrees by the population, have become part of the pedagogical reality of the local pre-primary school, contributing in differentiated but complementary ways to the performance of various didactic activities. This integration of languages within the current socioaffective, psychomotor, logical, and creative experiences of the children is possible thanks to a distinctive joint planning system developed by a group of teachers who have worked in this valley for many years with great dedication and competence.