New approaches to teaching Italian language and culture
Subtitle: case studies from an international perspective
By: edited by Emanuele Occhipinti.
Contributors: Occhipinti, Emanuele.
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Pub.
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Newcastle upon Tyne
Language: eng
Number of pages: 599
ISBN-13: 9781847186386
Subjects: Italian language -- Study and teaching -- Foreign speakers; Italian language -- Study and teaching -- Foreign speakers -- Case studies; Italy -- Civilization -- Study and teaching; Italy -- Civilization -- Study and teaching -- Case studies; Italy -- Social life and customs -- Study and teaching; Italy -- Social life and customs -- Study and teaching -- Case studies
Genres: Case studies
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / -- Emanuele Occhipinti -- pt. I.; title: Curricular innovations: -- ch. 1.; title: Eliminating the "gap" through circular innovation  -- Janice M. Aski and Heather Webb -- ch. 2.; title: Task-based instruction in intermediate Italian: a research-supported model  -- Tom Means -- ch. 3.; title: What can be obtained from project work? A case study  -- Assunta Giuseppina Zedda -- ch. 4.; title: The conversation hour: the making of an experiment  -- Simona Wright -- ch. 5.; title: Teaching learnable grammar  -- Camilla Bettoni and Bruno Di Biase -- pt. II.; title: Teaching Italian with technology: -- ch. 6.; title: Enhancing the student experience through technology: making language learning more meaningful through a department VLE  -- Clella Boscolo, Alison Davies, Kelly Smith -- ch. 7.; title: Azione! Teaching listening skills through video: a web-based program of film and television segments designed for Italian language courses at Yale University  -- Amelia Moser -- ch. 8.; title: Confronting new technologies: a cross-cultural telecollaborative project across the ocean  -- Silvia Carlorossi, Francesca Helm, Nicoletta Marini-Maio, Kathryn K. McMahon -- ch. 9.; title: Podcasting and iPod in teaching and learning Italian language, culture and literature: a research study at Université de Montréal, Canada  -- Jacqueline Samperi Mangan -- pt. III.; title: Teaching Italian translation: -- ch. 10.; title: Teaching Italian translation: a challenge  -- Luciana d'Arcangeli -- ch. 11.; title: Translation in teaching Italian as L2: evolution or involution?  -- Sandro Sciutti -- ch. 12.; title: Words don't come easy... especially during exams! The importance of adopting a didactic translation methodology in the context of the 2001 Italian university reform  -- Maria Cristina Cignatta -- ch. 13.; title: Teaching Italian as a foreign language for academic and professional purposes. Juridical and informative language. Teaching suggestions for students and legal professionals ; title: Manuela Visigalli -- -- pt. IV.; title: Teaching Italian culture: -- ch. 14.; title: Visual literacy: teaching Italian culture through images  -- Daniela Bartalesi-Graf -- ch. 15.; title: A visual socio-cultural approach to Italian women's studies  -- Flavia Laviosa -- ch. 16.; title: Building an intercultural identity in a cross-cultural transition: a short term stay case study  -- Barbara Spinelli, Roberto Dolci -- ch. 17.; title: Evaluating cultural proficiency in an upper level Italian culture course  -- Romana Capek-Habeković, Sandra Palaich -- ch. 18.; title: Cultural acquisition and language learning: the IVC, Chiavi di Lettura Project  -- Christine Ristaino, Judith Raggi-Moore -- ch. 19.; title: From the past to the present: history of the Italian culture  -- Nicla Reverso -- pt. IV.; title: Teaching Italian culture through film: -- ch. 20.; title: Italian language and culture in close-up: using film at all levels of proficiency  -- Kerstin Pilz -- ch. 21.; title: Teaching visual thinking, in and out of the Italian canon  -- Thomas Erling Peterson -- ch. 22.; title: Memory on the margins: reflections on Italy (1938-1943) in Scola's Una giornata particolare & Ozpetek's La finestra di fronte  -- Mary Ann McDonald Carolan -- pt. VI.; title: Teaching Italian culture through songs: -- ch. 23.; title: Teaching Italian culture through songs: "non solo canzonette"  -- Paola Vettorel -- ch. 24.; title: Italian freaks and punks: history of Italian culture from 1950s to 2005 retold by protest songs -- Silvia Boero.