"Educación lingüística y literaria en perspectiva intercultural. Un modelo de competencia comunicativa literaria intercultural"

This article presents the model of literary and intercultural communicative competence, which is based both on the hermeneutic approach for literary education and on the practice of the relational abilities defining intercultural communication. Furthermore, this article explores some of the results of a research whose aim is to investigate students’ motivation for studying literature in the Italian secondary school. The study involves 278 students of five schools in northeast Italy, a qualitative method design is implemented, it is a case study and data are collected through questionnaires. Results reveal that students would like to participate in more interpretative and interactive activities, according to the theoretical principles of the abovementioned model.