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Goering, John M. – Social Forces, 1971
Reports the findings of a study of the emergence of ethnic interests among a sample of one hundred Irish and Italians, accompanied by significant questioning about the reality of the American dream", and opposition to the demands of Negroes for equal rights. (DM)
Descriptors: Cultural Isolation, Ethnic Groups, Ethnic Relations, Ethnic Studies
Schaupp, Manfred – Neueren Sprachen, 1970
Descriptors: Cultural Education, Inservice Teacher Education, Institutes (Training Programs), Italian
McBride, Paul W. – Ethnic Groups, 1981
The insularity of Italian Americans is evident in their relationship with the Catholic church in America. By insisting on remaining Catholic, but only on their own terms, the Italians have won no support either from other Catholics, the church hierarchy, or the Protestants who hoped to convert them to Protestantism. (Author/MJL)
Descriptors: Alienation, Catholics, Church Role, Cultural Isolation
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Johnson, Colleen Leahy – Journal of Marriage and the Family, 1982
Studied kinship in Italian-American families with an emphasis on the sibling relationship. Focused interviews were conducted with 74 Italian-American homogeneous marriages, 98 inter-marriages, and 56 Protestants of European background. Found intermarried families more involved in kinship activities with the greatest differences between groups…
Descriptors: Family Influence, Family Relationship, Family Structure, Interpersonal Relationship
Schoenberg, Sandra P. – Ethnicity, 1980
Presents data about two St. Louis neighborhoods, one Italian and one Black, to support the theory that forces in the larger society (such as social discrimination and the availability of housing and jobs) are critical determinants of ethnic solidarity or dispersion over time. (MK)
Descriptors: Blacks, Demography, Employment Opportunities, Ethnic Groups
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Bates, Elizabeth; Rankin, Jane – Journal of Child Language, 1979
Reports on research on the acquisition of adjectives vs inflectional endings in Italian children. Patterns resulting from a longitudinal study involving two children and an experiment involving 84 children are compared to patterns of adults participating in the latter experiment. (Author/AM)
Descriptors: Adjectives, Adults, Child Language, Grammar
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Mollica, Anthony; And Others – Mosaic: A Journal for Language Teachers, 1996
Notes that information presented in dialog form in a foreign language lends itself more easily to conversation than does intricate narrative prose. Using background information on Halloween, the article adapts the text to present information about the target culture as well as to humorously present facts about the North American festivity.…
Descriptors: Cultural Context, Dialogs (Language), Foreign Countries, French
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D'Angiulli, Amedeo; Siegel, Linda S.; Serra, Emily – Applied Psycholinguistics, 2001
Canadian English-Italian bilingual children were administered phonological, reading, spelling, syntactic, and working memory tasks in both languages. Results suggest English-Italian interdependence is most clearly related to phonological processing but may influence other linguistic modules. Exposure to a language with more predictable…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, English, Italian, Language Processing
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Ahrenholz, Bernt – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2000
Describes the process of acquisition in learner varieties with respect to reference and referential movement in the domain of modality. Findings are based on data from the longitudinal ESF and P-Moll projects and on cross-sectional data of Italian learners of German. (Author/VWL)
Descriptors: Contrastive Linguistics, Cross Sectional Studies, German, Italian
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Pelligrino, Maria Luisa Morra; Scopesi, Alda – Journal of Child Language, 1990
Examined how Italian day-care teachers (N=5) spoke to young children and adjusted their language according to age and size of groups. It was found that teachers made both structural and functional modifications of language according to childrens' ages and the size of groups, with group size exerting a greater influence on the features of the…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Caregiver Speech, Child Caregivers, Child Language
Rubino, Antonia – Rassegna Italiana di Linguistica Applicata, 1989
Discusses the results of research to determine the success of the efforts currently being made in schools to teach pure Italian to the second generation of Italians in Australia in order to replace Italian Australian, a mixture of Italian dialects, Italian, and English. 33 references. (CFM)
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Elementary School Students, English, Foreign Countries
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Feuerverger, Grace – Canadian Modern Language Review, 1989
A study examined the relationship between language experiences of Italo-Canadian students at home and school and their perceptions of group vitality and ethnic language maintenance. Subjects were in grade eight integrated and non-integrated heritage language programs. (58 references) (Author/MSE)
Descriptors: Ethnicity, Foreign Countries, Grade 8, Italian Americans
Franchi, Annalisa – Rassegna Italiana di Linguistica Applicata, 1988
Analyzes the results of a study undertaken in Switzerland, which was designed to determine the degree of integration of non-Italian children in Italian-language nursery schools in the German part of Switzerland. Attempts to synthesize the ethnic and lingusitic elements of the study are made. (CFM)
Descriptors: Ethnic Studies, Ethnolinguistics, Foreign Countries, Italian
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Musatti, Tullia; Orsolini, Margherita – Journal of Child Language, 1993
Verb forms used by 14 4-year-olds in their pretend play were investigated in a study of the use of past verb forms to express "unreality." Results suggest that different past verb forms co-occur with different play activities; e.g., present perfect occurring when children implement their plans and communicate within an already…
Descriptors: Child Language, Fantasy, Foreign Countries, Italian
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Bottari, Piero; And Others – Language Acquisition, 1994
Examines the production of schwa-like elements, monosyllabic place holders (MPHs), before lexical items in early utterances of Italian children. The results of a longitudinal study of normal language acquisition in six Italian preschool children show that MPHs do not stem from imitation but actually retain important grammatical properties of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Grammar, Italian, Language Acquisition
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