Articoli e presentazioni / Papers and presentations

In this section you'll find papers written by scholars of free access and Power-Point presentations made at Conferences that might be useful for Italian Language Teachers and Scholars.

 

Songs, Music Videos and Interviews: Precious Tools for Teaching Authentic Culture in Italian language courses
Author: Lidia Lanzillotta Dickinson College lanzilol@dickinson.edu

In my beginner and intermediate level Italian courses at Dickinson College, I regularly use music and interviews as ways to connect with students and teach them Italian culture in a fun and captivating way. Most undergraduates love music and, of course, so do students of Italian. My students come to class, walk on campus and exercise while listening to music. They even study with music in the background! Since music accompanies young people throughout their day, I have strived to make music an essential part of my classes.

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Fashion, Made in Italy, and Italian Style in Language and Culture Courses
Author: Rita Pasqui University of Pennsylvania rpasqui@sas.upenn.edu

Fashion, Made in Italy, and Italian Style are vital parts of Italian identity - in Italy and abroad - and for this reason can be of great interest for teachers who work in a content-based instruction framework (Brinton, Snow, and Wesche 1989; Marsh and Maljers 1994).

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Teaching Culture with Authentic Materials: the use of Benvenuti al Sud to explore products, practices and perspectives of Italian culture
Author: Sara Mattavelli Department of French and Italian - University of Wisconsin-Madison mattavelli@wisc.edu

Although the 5 Cs of the ACTFL Standards underline the importance of gaining “knowledge and understanding of other cultures” and the MLA report advocates for transcultural and translingual competence, in lower division language classes, culture is often limited to blurbs in the textbook and it is likely to be the first element omitted due to time constraints.This paper presents an effective way of integrating the use of authentic materials, specifically the 2010 film Benvenuti al sud, in the curriculum of a second semester Italian class.

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Social Issues and Culture Awareness in Language Teaching
Author: Veronica Vegna University of Chicago vvegna@uchicago.edu

This presentation originates from the idea that discussing social issues in the language classroom encourages intercultural reflection and provides a more complete image of Italian culture than the one based primarily on commonly regarded attractive and often stereotypical aspects of society.The presentation focuses on methodologies and best practices that enable students to discuss social issues in the target language. By doing so, it reflects on how educators can enhance instruction when fostering discussion on social issues in Italy that have global and personal implications.

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