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Caruana, Sandro – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2013
In this contribution I present an overview of Italian in Malta, the third language of Malta, focusing on the role of this language within educational institutions and other domains of society. Italian was one of Malta's official languages till 1936 and, historically, it was used mainly within administrative and cultural spheres of society. Contact…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Italian, Television, Programming (Broadcast)
Burton, Graham – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2013
The focus of this research is on the nature of lexical cross-linguistic influence (CLI) between non-native languages. Using oral interviews with 157 L1 Italian high-school students studying English and German as non-native languages, the project investigated which kinds of lexis appear to be more susceptible to transfer from German to English and…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, English (Second Language), Multilingualism, German
Pixner, S.; Moeller, K.; Hermanova, V.; Nuerk, H. -C.; Kaufmann, L. – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 2011
The unit-decade compatibility effect is interpreted to reflect processes of place value integration in two-digit number magnitude comparisons. The current study aimed at elucidating the influence of language properties on the compatibility effect of Arabic two-digit numbers in Austrian, Italian, and Czech first graders. The number word systems of…
Descriptors: Semitic Languages, Number Concepts, Grade 1, German
Stratta, Paolo; Riccardi, Ilaria; Di Cosimo, Alessandra; Cavicchio, Alessandra; Struglia, Francesca; Daneluzzo, Enrico; Capanna, Cristina; Rossi, Alessandro – Journal of Community Psychology, 2012
The validity of the Italian version of the 28-items Resilience Scale for Adolescents (READ) was examined. A sample of 472 senior high school students between 18 and 20 years of age were used for this purpose. Reliability and validity were investigated by means of Cronbach's alpha, exploratory factor analysis, and confirmatory factor analysis. The…
Descriptors: Factor Analysis, Adolescents, Measures (Individuals), Psychometrics
Bello, A.; Giannantoni, P.; Pettenati, P.; Stefanini, S.; Caselli, M. C. – International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders, 2012
Background: Understanding lexical abilities in infants and toddlers is important, yet no single tool can be used. Aims: To perform a validation of a new tool (known as the Picture Naming Game, or "PiNG") for assessing lexical comprehension and production in toddlers and to obtain developmental trends for Italian children. Methods &…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Naming, Games, Measures (Individuals)
Rastelli, Stefano; Vernice, Mirta – International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching (IRAL), 2013
The Aspect Hypothesis assumes that--in early interlanguages--the perfective past spreads from telic to atelic verbs because events occurring in the past are easier to be associated with predicates having an inherent endpoint in their lexico-conceptual representation. In this study it is questioned whether for initial L2ers knowing the general…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Italian, Linguistic Theory, Interlanguage
Zampini, Laura; D'Odorico, Laura – Journal of Intellectual & Developmental Disability, 2013
Background: Research findings on vocabulary development in children with Down syndrome are inconsistent. This study aimed to analyse the developmental trend of vocabulary growth in children with Down syndrome and the relationships between vocabulary and chronological and developmental age. Method: Children's vocabulary size was assessed by a…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, Down Syndrome, Longitudinal Studies, Italian
Newhouse, C. Paul – Technology, Pedagogy and Education, 2015
This paper reports on the outcomes of a three-year study investigating the use of digital technologies to increase the authenticity of high-stakes summative assessment in four Western Australian senior secondary courses. The study involved 82 teachers and 1015 students and a range of digital forms of assessment using computer-based exams, digital…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, High Stakes Tests, Summative Evaluation, Secondary School Students
Absalom, Matthew – Babel, 2012
In 2008, the Faculty of Arts at The University of Melbourne embarked upon a major overhaul of curriculum in nine languages: Arabic, Chinese, Indonesian and Japanese in the Asia Institute; and French, German, Italian, Russian and Spanish in the School of Languages and Linguistics. This article details the changes to the beginners' Italian…
Descriptors: Italian, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Teaching Methods
Nocchi, Susanna – European Association for Computer-Assisted Language Learning (EUROCALL), 2012
This paper describes the author's experience with a pilot course of Italian in SL[R]. The course is part of a PhD research on "Exploring the potential of virtual worlds to promote Intercultural Awareness in students learning Italian as a Foreign Language." In the paper the author will justify her choice of virtual worlds for the…
Descriptors: Italian, Cultural Awareness, Second Language Learning, Virtual Classrooms
Serratrice, Ludovica; Sorace, Antonella; Filiaci, Francesca; Baldo, Michela – Applied Psycholinguistics, 2012
This study investigated the role of typological relatedness, language of the community, and age, in predicting similarities and differences between English-Italian, Spanish-Italian bilingual children and their monolingual child and adult counterparts in the acceptability of pre- and postverbal object pronouns in [[plus or minus]focus] contexts in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English, Spanish, Italian
Tosi, Arturo – Language Policy, 2011
An informal organisation that is becoming quite influential in the spread of Italian in Italy, as well as abroad, is the "Accademia della Crusca" which began its activities during the Renaissance, under quite different auspices. Founded in Florence in 1582-1583, this Academy was inspired by the theories of Pietro Bembo (1470-1547), a…
Descriptors: Literature Appreciation, Foreign Countries, Italian, Organizations (Groups)
Messina Dahlberg, Giulia; Bagga-Gupta, Sangeeta – Learning, Media and Technology, 2014
The use of digital tools like computers and tablets in institutional learning arenas give rise to forms of flexibility where time and space boundaries become diffuse. Online learning sites are understood as being crucial today, especially in large parts of the Global North, where anyone anywhere potentially can become a student and have access to…
Descriptors: Online Courses, Distance Education, Language Variation, Computer Mediated Communication
Valcke, Jennifer, Ed.; Wilkinson, Robert, Ed. – Peter Lang Publishing Group, 2017
This book offers a collection of original papers showing how Higher education institutions have coped with changing the language of instruction. It points out that Higher education institutions have undergone radical change in the past decades; of which the shift to English-medium instruction, as well as bi- or plurilingual programmes, is one…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Quality Assurance, College Faculty
Baraldi, Claudio – Intercultural Education, 2012
This article analyses intercultural education outcomes produced in the setting of teaching Italian as a second language (ISL) in an Italian school. Intercultural education is produced in interactions which are based on specific cultural presuppositions, i.e. expectations regarding learning, role hierarchy and evaluation of student performances.…
Descriptors: Cultural Pluralism, Multicultural Education, Intercultural Communication, Second Language Learning