“…The student has understood that sometimes in-class teaching is very attentive to the formal structure of the language (grammar, morphology and syntax) but not as attentive to the use of the language, and seems to favour correctness over functionality. De Mauro (1980, 2018 and Casini (2019bCasini ( , 2020Casini ( , 2022Casini and Bancheri, 2021) have highlighted the potential creative value of grammar, indicating the need for teaching to consider the creative uses of language and how these can, when used in context, address the functionality of the language differently than through a grammatical textbook.…”