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Russo, Joseph A. – Italica, 1969
Descriptors: College Language Programs, Cultural Context, Guides, Italian
Lowe, Robert W. – French Rev, 1969
Descriptors: French Literature, Imitation, Impressionistic Criticism, Italian Literature

Bettoni, Camilla – Babel: International Journal of Translation, 1981
Examines Australian Italian and some characteristics that distinguish it from standard Italian, and discusses the problem of which to teach in the schools. (EKN)
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Dialects, Educational Policy, Foreign Countries

Napoli, Donna Jo – Journal of Linguistics, 1979
Examines reflexivization in Italian and demonstrates that the proposals that (1) reflexive pronouns and their antecedents must be clausemates, and (2) the specified subject and tensed-S conditions, cannot be maintained as universals. (AM)
Descriptors: Grammar, Italian, Language Universals, Linguistic Theory
Francescato, Giuseppe – Rassegna Italiana di Linguistica Applicata, 1978
This article discusses the linguistic background of two Italian children who lived with their parents for an extended period of time in Holland and for a brief time in Puerto Rico and spent vacations in Italy where their relatives spoke the dialects of Veneto and Friuli. (CFM)
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Child Language, Children, Dialects

Williams, John N. – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 1999
Investigated the relationship between memory for input and inductive learning of morphological rules relating to functional categories in a semiartificial form of Italian. A verbatim memory task was used as both the vehicle for presenting sentences and as a continuous measure of memory performance. (Author/VWL)
Descriptors: Induction, Italian, Linguistic Input, Memory
Reading Aloud: Dissociating the Semantic Pathway from the Non-Semantic Pathway of the Lexical Route.

Peressotti, Francesca; Job, Remo – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2003
Notes that, according to dual-route models of reading, consistency effects in pseudoword reading are evidence for the activation of lexical information. Investigates whether lexical interference has a semantic or non-semantic origin. Provides evidence for the existence of a lexical non-semantic pathway in reading aloud among a group of Italian…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Italian, Models

Webster, Michael – Visible Language, 1989
Explores how oral and print characteristics mesh or clash in "words-in-freedom," a form of visual poetry invented by Filippo Tommaso Marinetti. Analyzes Marinetti's poster-poem "Apres la Marne, Joffre visita le front en auto," highlighting the different natures of the two media and the coding difficulties occasioned by…
Descriptors: French Literature, Italian Literature, Literary Criticism, Oral Interpretation

Hyams, Nina – Journal of Child Language, 1992
Argues that the data used to claim that morphosyntactic development of Italian-speaking children are inconsistent with nativist, parameter-setting models of language development is irrelevant to the specific hypothesis being evaluated. (25 references) (JL)
Descriptors: Child Language, Italian, Language Acquisition, Linguistic Theory

Napoli, Donna Jo – Journal of Linguistics, 1992
Secondary resultatives exist in Italian and English, where both languages exhibit freedom with PP resultatives but semantic restrictions with AP resultatives (strongly in Italian and weakly in English). This contrast between freedom and restrictions is mirrored in the fact that AP arguments in postobject position as sisters to V are marked in both…
Descriptors: Contrastive Linguistics, English, Idioms, Italian

Mason, Keith – Italica, 1997
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)
Descriptors: Educational Trends, Instructional Improvement, Italian, Language Teachers

Lalor, Erin; Kirsner, Kim – International Journal of Bilingualism, 2000
Two experiments examined the proposition that transfer effects between English and Italian translations are restricted to words from the same lexical paradigm. The experiments involved standard repetition priming, a traditional laboratory procedure, and a comparative analysis of the impact of high-frequency and low-frequency words in one language…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Contrastive Linguistics, English, Italian
Hankin, Carole G.; Sachs, Randi T. – American School Board Journal, 2001
In a Long Island school district, foreign-language study is part of every elementary school student's curriculum in grades 2 through 5. More than 90 percent of sixth-graders choose to study a language and have the chance to participate in 7-year and advanced-placement programs in these languages. (MLH)
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, French, Italian, Program Descriptions

Mollica, Anthony – Italica, 2001
Discusses the teaching of conceptual fluency via basic vocabulary development in the Italian as a second language classroom. Lists a series of strategies to assist the teacher and students in teaching and learning vocabulary. (Author/VWL)
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Italian, Language Fluency, Second Language Instruction

Bettoni, Camilla; Rubino, Antonia – Australian Review of Applied Linguistics, 1998
Presents data on patterns of language use by Italians living in Australia, focusing on the maintenance of Italian and Dialect under the impact of widespread shift to English. Data from self-report surveys suggest differences by gender, age, and region of origin and note that the position of Italian, though more limited, is somewhat more solid than…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Foreign Countries, Italian, Language Maintenance