How students, teachers and peer-tutors can interact on line: the case for the course Italian Language @ Culture by the University of Naples L’Orientale.

In the last 15 years World Wide Web has changed the nature of work and social relationships and it is also impacting another important field such as education. On the one hand, the web applications are bringing a lot of easiness for both students and teachers because they provide new teaching and learning resources. On the other one, the spread of distance education is also playing a crucial role in dismantling the traditional teaching praxis and redefining the teacher-student interaction. In this paper we focus on the way Polish students, Italian teachers and peer tutors of interact in a blended course of Italian.