Addresses the current status of teaching Italian, outlines problems that teachers of Italian must confront, and offers recommendations for improving the Italian pedagogical scenario. (CFM)

Italian teachers of English can be categorized in three groups, according to their attitudes in regard to innovative teaching techniques: (1) those who reject anything new, (2) those who accept only the new, and (3) those who accept the new while preserving what is good in the old techniques. (CFM)

Provides results from a survey sent to all North American institutions offering Italian language courses to investigate the internal organization and training procedures for teaching assistants of Italian. (Author/VWL)

This report states specific steps to follow in order to achieve the primary objectives of the Modern Language Association/American Council of Learned Societies Task Force, to improve the quantity and quality of second-language study in the commonly taught languages in the United States. (CFM)