Enseigner la syntaxe du français par la traduction vers l’italien. L’expérience d’un cours de 3e année de licence en médiation

This article is divided into two parts. In the first, I show how three grammars of the Italian language intended for junior secondary school pupils analyse the elements of the simple sentence: the simple sentence is described on the basis of what is traditionally known as analisi logica, which consists of a purely semantic analysis of the complements of the sentence, while valency theory plays a very marginal role. In order to make up for these shortcomings, over the years I have developed a guided inductive approach for my 3rd year French-Italian translation course in a mediation degree, which tackles grammatical problems with the active collaboration of the students. To describe this approach, in the second part of this article I explain how I teach valency theory and the analysis and translation of the relative pronoun dont.