Festival of Italian Literature
The Festival of Italian Literature in London / Festival Italiano di Letteratura a Londra (FILL) will take place at the Coronet Theatre Notting Hill on October 21 and 22, 2017. Two days of events, over 30 speakers, authors and thinkers from different backgrounds,...
An Italian Year Abroad
Sono una studentessa di Tedesco e Italiano all’Università di Reading, sono andata in Italia per 5 mesi (Febbraio 2017 – Luglio 2017) e ho studiato all’Università degli Studi Bergamo. Ho studiato corsi linguistici e ho seguito anche un corso di lingua italiana, livello...
Flying the flag for minority Italian languages
Guest post by Maureen Millward I was brought up in a monolingual household near Glasgow. I had no access to foreign languages until I went to high school. At university I studied post A-level Spanish and also some Italian as a beginner. I was keen to start with...
Celebrating Ferragosto
Victoria Mitchell (Association for Language Learning) The 15 August is known as Ferragosto in Italy and marks the start of the Italian holiday period. If you happen to be in the country on that day, you will no doubt notice that most shops and restaurants will be...
A tense future? Italian in Australia
Wendy Newman (Association for Language Learning) LANGUAGE TEACHING IN AUSTRALIA Australia is one of the most multilingual countries in the world. According to the 2006 census, more than 350 languages were in regular use in Australian homes and workplaces (around 150...
L’eredità di Pinocchio
Marco Lacivita e Annalisa Nardi (Gladstone Park Secondary College, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia) INTRODUZIONE C’era una volta … – Un re! – diranno subito i miei piccoli lettori. No, ragazzi, avete sbagliato. C’era una volta un pezzo di legno …[ref]Collodi, C....
Attualità – spring 2014
ITALIAN IMMERSION Wendy Newman, ALL In summer 2013, I was given the opportunity to study Italian in Italy, as part of the European Union’s Lifelong Learning Programme. This programme offered In-Service Training Funding for language teachers to develop, revive and...
The Cucina d’Inferno cookery and language project
Jane Harvey (Royal Forest of Dean Campus of Gloucestershire College) In summer 2011 La cucina d’inferno, a language project led by the Royal Forest of Dean College won the Mary Glasgow Prize for curriculum innovation, as well as a European Language Label Award. It was...
Mare nostrum: l’uso didattico di canzoni sul tema ‘mare’ nell’insegnamento dell’italiano come lingua straniera
Domenica Elisa Cicala (Alpen-Adria Universität Klagenfurt) PERCHÉ USARE LA CANZONE NELLA DIDATTICA DELL’ITALIANO LS? L’ascolto alla radio di una canzone italiana, la memorizzazione della melodia di un ritornello orecchiabile o la comprensione di un sintagma noto...