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Download full textPiantanida, Cecilia – Research-publishing.net, 2020
This paper explores how a transnational approach to university language classes may help develop students' intercultural competence. Researchers have shown that the integration of literature in the language class has the potential to raise intercultural competence (Deardorff, 2006), especially when migrant and travel literatures are used (Matos,…
Descriptors: Italian, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Rating Scales
Direct linkAmorati, Riccardo – Australian Review of Applied Linguistics, 2022
This study examines the extent to which the motivation of university students of Italian in Melbourne (Australia) is influenced by the visibility of a local Italian community. The research relies on data collected by open-ended questions and two Likert items from a survey study (n?=?74) as well as in-depth interviews (n?=?5). The findings show…
Descriptors: Learning Motivation, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Italian
Duso, Elena Maria; Marigo, Luisa – Language Learning in Higher Education, 2018
In 2016 the University of Padova and its Language Centre ("Centro Linguistico di Ateneo" -- CLA) became involved in the two-year "Cultura e accoglienza" Project (see Dalziel and Piazzoli in this volume), the aim of which was to encourage around 30 refugees and asylum seekers to pursue university studies by means of a…
Descriptors: Universities, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Refugees
Dalziel, Fiona; Piazzoli, Erika – Language Learning in Higher Education, 2018
In this paper, we present a study of adult asylum seekers learning Italian as a Second Language through Process Drama. Adopting an ecology of language approach, we first set the scene by examining some of the most salient issues regarding the language learning needs of asylum seekers and refugees, including the challenge of fostering both language…
Descriptors: Drama, Italian, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Clyne, Michael; Cordella, Marisa; Schüpbach, Doris; Maher, Brigid – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2013
This article reports on an inter-generational inter-cultural pilot project carried out in suburban Melbourne which supports the second-language acquisition of younger people and enhances the social inclusion of older people of migrant background. The article begins with an outline of the multilingual context in which the project is based. The…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Social Integration, Foreign Countries, Immigrants
United States Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior, 1896
This is Volume 2 of the Report of the Commissioner of Education for the Year 1894-95, containing Parts II and III. Part II contains the chapters: (1) The Bell and Lancaster System; (2) At What Age do Pupils Withdraw from the Public Schools; (3) Admission to College by Certificate; (4) Technological Instruction in the Land-Grant Colleges; (5)…
Descriptors: Educational Practices, Age Differences, Withdrawal (Education), College Admission
