The aim of this paper is to present the application of the Linguistic Landscape approach in a context of international students learning Italian as L2. This approach is usually aimed at making learners aware of language diversity and variety during the learning, teaching and assessment process. First of all we will discuss the theoretical basis of this approach and its application to language teaching and then we will present the methodological framework of an experimentation of the Linguistic Landscape approach carried out with international students with different levels of proficiency in Italian. Results of the experimentation will finally be discussed.

The aim of the paper is to analyse the language policies of the European Union through a lexical analysis of documents concerning languages and education. On the basis of the lexical use within EU documents, how are languages conceptualised and how do linguistic and educational concepts evolve? A corpus of EU documents has been collected and analysed to research the frequency of use of words, concordances, and keywords. The focus is on the multiple ways used to refer to the concept of language in documents published over different decades.

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The present research article aims to give an overview over the linguistic landscape of Cuba shaped by more than 50 years of socialist revolution, because the linguistic landscape of a country can be considered as a lens, which can be used to interpret social and political facts. With a qualitative methodology, the article present data on the Cuban Linguistic Landscape and analyze the political content, linguistic characteristics and objectives of a sample of signs present in the Cuban LL, and how this has been used by the propaganda in Cuba in order to celebrate the revolution and spread revolutionary values and ideas.

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