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Ciribuco, Andrea – Language and Intercultural Communication, 2022
This article examines the impact that an arts project had on the relationship between a group of asylum seekers and the Italian town where they live. The project brought together local youth and asylum seekers to engage in dance workshops and video-making workshops. This article combines interviews with project participants and teachers with an…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Refugees, Dance, Art Activities
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Carbonara, Valentina – Multilingua: Journal of Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Communication, 2022
This paper focuses on the integration of translanguaging practices in a public preschool situated in a small village in North-West of Italy. Mobility processes and local Italian families' school choices have led to the raise of the number of students with an immigrant background enrolled at the studied preschool up to 85%. After a brief overview…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Translation, Code Switching (Language), Preschool Education
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Michelini, Elena – Research-publishing.net, 2022
Many adult migrants lacking L2 linguistic autonomy cannot afford the time to master host countries' languages before providing for their basic needs. Thus, second language training that focuses on occupational integration is at times more urgent than a more generally social one, as the European 'language for work' approach suggests. Given the…
Descriptors: Computational Linguistics, Teaching Methods, Italian, Second Language Learning
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Tonioli, Valeria – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2022
The aim of the paper is to present the results of a research project called 'Tell Me', conducted from October 2018 to March 2020. The project focused on Bengali children living in Venice, Italy, and aimed to describe (1) children's languages in the home environment and at school; (2) the quality and quantity of input they receive in every language…
Descriptors: Indo European Languages, Italian, Family Relationship, Language Usage
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Olatunji, Taiwo Isaac; Fedeli, Monica – Commission for International Adult Education, 2022
Migration is a significant life event that usually triggers cross-cultural preparedness and the need for learning, even transformative learning. This exploratory study answers two research questions: How do Nigerian immigrants describe their preparedness for cross-cultural transition in Italy? What are the indications of transformative learning…
Descriptors: Transformative Learning, Immigrants, Cultural Differences, Foreign Countries
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Elena Florit; Chiara Barachetti; Marinella Majorano; Manuela Lavelli – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2024
Toddlers from low-income and language-minority immigrant families are at risk for language difficulties due to early disparities in the quality of their home language environment. The present longitudinal study extends previous research by investigating nursery teachers' communicative modalities and functions, and their relations with the…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Preschool Education, Toddlers, Low Income Groups
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Carbonara, Valentina; Scibetta, Andrea – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2022
The present contribution aims at describing the main phases of implementation of a Transformative Action-Research project named 'L'AltRoparlante'. This project began in school year 2016/2017 and is still being implemented in five Italian multilingual schools. Its main purpose is to acknowledge students' individual and collective multilingual…
Descriptors: Code Switching (Language), Native Language, Multilingualism, Action Research
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Chiofalo, Tommasa Agnese; Fernández-Martínez, María del Mar; Luque-de la Rosa, Antonio; Carrión-Martínez, José Juan – Education Sciences, 2019
Background: The purpose of this research is to analyze the perception of teachers and their thinking about two specific and functional issues which are often deemed to be controversial, that is, the acquisition, by recently arrived migrant students of the host language and the role that the professional services of a cultural mediator may have in…
Descriptors: Immigrants, Italian, Second Language Learning, Epistemology
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Damiani, Valeria – International Journal of Inclusive Education, 2021
It is widely recognized that language acquisition is one of the key elements that can boost migrants' and refugees' social inclusion, although some research has stressed that the mastery of language can be intended as a necessary but not a sufficient condition in the process of integration. This contribution aims at shaping further analysis on the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Immigrants, Refugees, Second Language Learning
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Perrino, Sabina – Multilingua: Journal of Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Communication, 2019
In this article, I explore how language revitalization initiatives are rescaled as part of a local, historical and sociocultural revitalization project in which ethnonationalist aspirations emerge in Northeastern Italy's Veneto region. Through an analysis of political emblems, textual artifacts, and speech participants' stories, I examine how the…
Descriptors: Self Concept, Language Maintenance, Political Influences, History
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Svetlana Poleschuk; Thomas Dreesen; Barbara D'Ippolito; Joaquin Carceles Martinez Lozano – UNICEF Innocenti - Global Office of Research and Foresight, 2023
In Italy, more than 700,000 asylum seekers and migrants arrived in the country between 2014-2020. Newly arrived children including refugees and migrants need to quickly acquire Italian skills to succeed in school and society. To help address this urgent need, the Akelius digital learning application was introduced in Bologna and Rome for Italian…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Educational Practices, Independent Study, Italian
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Duarte, Joana; García-Jimenez, Eduardo; McMonagle, Sarah; Hansen, Antje; Gross, Barbara; Szelei, Nikolett; Pinho, Ana Sofia – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2023
Due to globalisation and migration, multilingualism has become both a reality and an aim of education systems across Europe, affecting how language education is shaped. To improve the ways in which schools cater for language education in diverse settings, research is required on the potentials of multilingualism in order to design curricula that…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Cross Cultural Studies
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Maistrello, Veronica; Dalziel, Fiona Clare – Global Education Review, 2020
The aim of this article is to explore how drama activities can provide an opportunity for adult migrants to develop their competence in the language of the host community, in this case Italian, in a protected and anxiety-free space. Language anxiety has been classified as a specific feeling of apprehension due to the risks language learners may be…
Descriptors: Anxiety, Immigrants, Risk, Drama
Heugh, Kathleen; Stroud, Christopher; Scarino, Angela – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2019
In this paper we draw attention to people who journey from one temporal and spatial setting towards another in the 'South', who aspire to a reconfigured sense of belonging, prosperity and wellbeing, and their multilinguality and multilingualisms. Through three vignettes of journeys we illustrate how in changing of place that linguistic diversities…
Descriptors: Risk, Multilingualism, Well Being, Migration
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Rubino, Antonia – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2021
This article presents the findings of an online survey conducted amongst bi- (English, Italian) and trilingual (English, Italian and dialect) Italo-Australian youth, exploring self-assessed language competence, self-reported language choice in various communicative situations, and attitudes towards heritage languages. These young people appear…
Descriptors: Language Proficiency, Language Attitudes, Italian, Dialects
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