Posso il tuo tablet? Strategie di richiesta alla scuola primaria. Classi seconde, terze e quarte a confronto

[Machine translation] Although the linguistic act of the request has received extensive attention from research on spoken interaction, to date we do not have empirical studies aimed at describing how children perform this act in Italian L1 and L2 or how their pragmatic and interactional skills eventually evolve over time. With the intention of helping to initiate investigations in this direction, this work illustrates an exploratory cross-sectional study of the project Today Let's Do Pragmatics (Ferrari 2016; 2022), which involved 56 monolingual and multilingual children aged between 7 and 10 years engaged in the creation of interactions to request material and non-material goods elicited through role play. In more detail, starting from the description of the overall structure of the communication act and its organization in the interactional sequence, there are common traits and possible variations in the oral productions of students in the second, third and fourth grades of primary school.