Il repository multimediale LIRA: analisi della partecipazione della comunità di utenti

This paper focuses on the importance of the participation of the community of learners of Italian as second Language developed within the project called LIRA – Lingua/Cultura Italiana in Rete per l'Apprendimento (Learning Italian language/culture on the Web). LIRA mainly aims at creating a multimedia repository of materials that can help the recovery, preservation and development of linguistic, pragmatic and cultural competences by second and third generation of Italians living abroad. This paper addresses one crucial issue associated with the teaching of pragmatics, namely, how to combine the intrinsic variability of this area with the need to resort to a standard reference system and to provide learners with clear corrective feedback.