BASIC VARIETY E INTERLINGUA IN ITALIANO L2. NOTE SULLA SCRITTURA DI ARABOFONI

The Basic Variety is a “simple, versatile, and highly efficient for most communicative purposes” system (Klein and Perdue, 1997: 304). The main goal of this article is to find out if L1 transfer phenomena in Italian L2 Arabic speakers are acceptable in Basic Variety (BV) Italian L2 or if they should be avoided because they hinder the communicative functionality of BV Italian L2. Starting from a synthetic premise on some characteristics of the Arabic language and some educational issues regarding the learning of Italian by Arabic speakers (Della Puppa, 2007), we make observations on BV and finally we focus on the analysis of some texts that represent a sub corpus of the VALICO corpus (Corino and Marello, 2017) produced in Italian L2 by Arabic speakers.