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Di Pietro, Robert J. – Rassegna Italiana di Linguistica Applicata, 1980
Suggests that ethnic American literature might help promote FL study through themes also recurrent in the target group literature and through English usages reminiscent of target language features. Sees these shared characteristics as a potential aid to learning, usually obscured by the emphasis placed on contrastive aspects. (MES)
Descriptors: Cultural Background, Ethnic Bias, Ethnicity, Italian

Rando, Gaetano – Italica, 1971
Descriptors: Diachronic Linguistics, English, Grammar, Italian
Barnes, Hilary – ProQuest LLC, 2009
This dissertation project examines the language contact situation of Chipilo, a Veneto-Spanish bilingual community of immigrant origin in central Mexico, focusing both on the social motivations for the sustained bilingualism observed and the linguistic outcomes in the Spanish of the community. Chipilo is a unique community in that Veneto, a…
Descriptors: Language Maintenance, Ethnicity, Linguistic Borrowing, Sociolinguistics
Helm, Francesca – Language and Intercultural Communication, 2009
Telecollaboration is an approach to intercultural learning that uses Internet technology as a tool to facilitate intercultural communication between classes of learners in different countries. The question of what language learners can gain from telecollaboration is fundamental in putting the case forward for its place in a language course. This…
Descriptors: Intercultural Communication, Diaries, English (Second Language), Internet
Lampert, Magdalene; Graziani, Filippo – Elementary School Journal, 2009
To understand how teacher education might build the knowledge it needs, the editors of this issue investigate how organizations outside of education create and maintain "self-improving" systems that enable them to learn how to get better at what they do. To learn about knowledge building in teacher education, the research reported here also looks…
Descriptors: Preservice Teacher Education, Teacher Education Programs, Second Language Instruction, Italian
Radford, Andrew; Kupisch, Tanja; Koppe, Regina; Azzaro, Gabriele – Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 2007
This paper examines the syntax of "GENDER CONCORD" in mixed utterances where bilingual children switch between a modifier in one language and a noun in another. Particular attention is paid to how children deal with potential gender mismatches between modifier and noun, i.e., if one of the languages has grammatical gender but the other does not,…
Descriptors: Nouns, Syntax, Bilingualism, Form Classes (Languages)

Cherubini, Jon C., Comp. – Italica, 1973
Part of a continuing series. (DD)
Descriptors: Bibliographies, Book Reviews, Italian, Italian Literature

Molinaro, Julius A., Comp. – Italica, 1972
Describes books, articles, and reviews on Italian studies published in the United States and Canada. (DS)
Descriptors: Bibliographies, Books, Italian, Italian Literature
Florio-Ruane, Susan; Williams, Linda G. – Teacher Education Quarterly, 2008
This article reports the authors' collaborative research on teacher identity as revealed by examining paths to teaching. When individuals enter the teaching profession, they appear to be making a personal career choice. Beginning educators look ahead, envisioning the teachers they hope to become. At this time it is rare to look backward, to…
Descriptors: Teaching (Occupation), Career Choice, Teacher Attitudes, Social Environment
Absalom, Matthew; Rizzi, Andrea – ReCALL, 2008
In this paper, we describe an initial exploratory study designed to compare the outcomes of online listening and online text-based tasks in the context of the study of Italian at The University of Melbourne. Our findings allow us to characterise online listening and online reading as a qualitative difference between deep and surface approaches to…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, Italian, Second Language Learning, Computer Assisted Instruction
Kennedy, Claire; Levy, Mike – ReCALL, 2008
This article discusses an experiment in sending regular Short Message Service (SMS) messages to support language learning, and vocabulary learning in particular, at beginners' level in Italian at an Australian university. The approach we took built on the initiatives of Thornton and Houser (2005) and Dias (2002b), and was informed by the results…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Vocabulary Development, Italian, Second Language Learning
Bradley, Linda, Ed.; Thouësny, Sylvie, Ed. – Research-publishing.net, 2013
EUROCALL 2013's theme was "20 Years of EUROCALL: Learning from the Past, Looking to the Future." The conference seeked to establish an overview of EUROCALL's twentieth anniversary. As a professional organization, EUROCALL has been aiming, along its 20 years of existence, to promote innovative research, development and practice in the…
Descriptors: Conference Papers, Technology Uses in Education, Computer Assisted Instruction, Second Language Learning

Molinaro, Julius A., Comp. – Italica, 1972
Quarterly listing of books, articles, and reviews on Italian studies by scholars residing in the United States or Canada. (DS)
Descriptors: Authors, Bibliographies, Books, Italian

Molinaro, Julius A., Comp. – Italica, 1971
Includes materials published in the United States and foreign countries by scholars from the U.S. and Canada. (DS)
Descriptors: Authors, Bibliographies, Books, Grammar
Gorsuch, Greta – Foreign Language Annals, 2009
As part of a larger summative evaluation of a foreign language department and a two-year foreign language core competency, the researcher investigated fourth-semester student self-efficacy (a person's belief, rooted in experience, that they can do something) and future expectancy of second language use. In effect, this was also an evaluation of…
Descriptors: Summative Evaluation, Program Evaluation, Self Efficacy, Second Language Learning