This is the introductory chapter of the volume, "Using Digital Resources to Enhance Language Learning: Case Studies in Italian." The volume includes papers presented at the Society for Italian Studies (SIS) Biennial Conference, held in Oxford, UK in 2015. SIS's stated aim is "to further the study of Italy, Italian language, literature, film, thought, history, society and arts in the United Kingdom and Ireland." At the conference, a group of Italian language tutors presented papers and/or contributed to the discussion on Italian language teaching and learning, and on related scholarship. [For the complete volume, "Using Digital Resources to Enhance Language Learning: Case Studies in Italian," see ED585224.]