Which Italian in the classroom?

This article outlines the sociolinguistic features of Italian in the Italian-speaking part of Switzerland and presents the results of a questionnaire on the perception of linguistic school-related regionalisms of a group of students of primary teaching which was implemented at the Department of Education and Learning at SUPSI (University of Applied Sciences and Arts of Southern Switzerland). These constitute the first results of the project Repertorio lessicale dei regionalismi d'uso scolastico della Svizzera italiana (A lexical repertoire of school regionalisms in Italian-speaking Switzerland) which grew out of a joint endeavour by SUPSI's Department of Education and Learning and the Osservatorio linguistico della Svizzera italiana. The project aims to promote the Italian of Switzerland in Ticino (ISIT) in the school context and to fight disapproving or even sanctioning attitudes to this language variety based on prejudice in the area of register or language variety.