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  WTI Magazine #84    2016 October 17Author : Giulia Casati for the Italian School NJ      Translation by:   One difficult feature of the Italian language, the one that makes many and many learners scratch their head, is gender. Yes, because Italian as a language has a gender. The word Italian itself has a gender! In fact, Italian is a boy! Ah,...

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The Italian Teachers Association of New Jersey (ITANJ) and the Coccia Institute for the Italian Experience in America at Montclair State University joined forces on March 26th for their seventh annual collaboration, Italian Language and Culture Day.   This full day of performances showcased the hard work and creativity of middle school and h...

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IONA COLLEGE and I.A.C.E are pleased to sponsor THE FOURTH ANNUAL LANGUAGE AND CULTURE WORKSHOPMAY 29TH, 2015 - IONA COLLEGE, New Rochelle NY Teaching Critical Thinking and Cultural Diversity in the Foreign Language Classroom. JOIN US TO THIS FREE WORKSHOP   In this workshop, we will discuss how we can teach areas of contents suc...

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By Savannah Chastain   It's the busy lunch hour in Destin, but Noelle Osellame, Wendy Rulnick, and Tricia Rennicke are taking it slow, enjoying the daily special and lively conversation at Mimmo's Ristorante Italiano.   The three women meet once a week to "parlare in Italiano," or speak Italian, believing in the old Latin proverb, "Us...

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  WTI Magazine #43    2014 September, 17Author : Manuela Bianchi for learnitalygroup.com      Translation by:   Today we continue to explore the vast vocabulary of our beloved Italian language, and specifically the dangers hidden behind the apparent similarities that we already presented in the previous article. Let's analyze the word "addizione...

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You can hear their passion for teaching the language, a Viva Italia! enthusiasm they hope to make infectious to those who sign up for the courses.For Italian language teachers Catherine D'Ascoli of Wilde Lake High School and Peter DiMarco of Hammond High School, the stream of students interested in the language has been, for the most part, unabated...

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“A coat hanger, for example, is known to some Italians as an ometto, to others as a stampella and to yet others as an angioletto. But it can also be a gruccia, attaccapanni, appendiabiti, cruccia, stanfella, crocetta, crociera, appendino or croce”.   This seemingly endless list of words – which are basically synonyms of one another –well epi...

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WTI Magazine #10    2013 Dec, 20Author : Italian Cultural Society      Translation by:   Last October 19, my colleagues and I attended the "Teaching Italian Culture Conference", organized by Georgetown University in collaboration with the Italian Embassy, and we were reminded how the teaching of the Italian Culture...

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by Lucia Ducci   Invitation to submit an abstract for a prospective edited collection of biographical essays on teachers of Italian language and literature in the United States during the 19th century.   The 19th century witnessed a constant growth of the interest in Italian language, unhealthy literature, health and culture in the Unit...

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Last month, Mayor Lee honored the Italian community with his presence at the San Francisco Italian Athletic Club and publicly stated his commitment to help bolster support for Italian language education in the Bay.   In the face of a recent decline in Californian schools offering Italian as a choice in their World Language Curricula, we are...

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