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di Lucca, Lucia; Masiero, Giovanna; Pallotti, Gabriele – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2008
This paper reports on a longitudinal ethnographic study of the language socialisation of a group of Moroccan adolescents who migrated to Italy in the late 1990s. The approach is based on the notion of language socialisation, which sees the process of acquiring a language as linked to that of becoming a member of a culture. The participants live in…
Descriptors: Community Characteristics, Language Patterns, Municipalities, Cultural Awareness
Moffett, Patrick Sean – 1995
Founded in response to the needs of children left homeless in Italy in the wake of World War II, Boys' and Girls' Towns have become international communities of children and adolescents separated from their families or homelands because of domestic violence, famine, war or other forms of social upheaval. The towns have been less subject to many of…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Children, Community Characteristics, Community Development