Fondazione Italia has begun a fundraising initiative that they hope will provide 15 Southern California Italian high school instructors scholarships to attend a week-long seminar for Italian Language educators. This is a College Board-endorsed Italian Advanced Placement Summer Seminar organized by the California World Language Project and the Calif...

di Maria Francesca Massa   Foreign Language Teaching Assistant Program è il bando che permette ai giovani laureati aspiranti insegnanti di fare un'esperienza all'estero come assistente di lingua straniera. Il programma di studio prevede l'assegnazione di una borsa di studio nell'ambito del Fulbright per l'a.a. 2016/201.   In rinnovo p...

Study in Italy is happy to announce that the annual Course of Professional Development for Teachers of Italian, now in its 8th year, will be held in Genoa, Italy from June 29 to July 10, 2015.   The course is comprised of 50 hours of instruction: 40 hours of lesson (Monday thru Friday 9:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.) and 10 hours in four afternoon ha...

The Italian American Association of Monmouth County will hold an Italian enrichment summer camp in Marlboro. The camp will be held at the Old Brick Reformed Church, Route 520, from Aug. 3- 14. The camp will run Monday through Friday between 10 a.m. and 2 p.m. and will accept children between the ages of 5 and 14.   Cheryl Scuorzo, the p...

Professor Tom Means of the Borough of Manhattan Community College (BMCC/CUNY) Modern Languages Department recently discovered that the BMCC Italian program, in which enrollment has quadrupled since 2000, is the largest Italian program among community colleges, nationwide. Professor Means has also just published an article examining language learnin...

Nella storia recente degli Italiani emigrati in America, un mondo di circa 20 milioni di persone dalla seconda generazione in poi, esistono pochi punti fermi, personalità simboliche, che mettono d'accordo tutti. Sono spesso artisti affermati, grandi capitani d'industria, a volte sportivi di successo. In questo contesto c'è poi, a rappresentare con...

By Mauro Battocchi   Perhaps your schedule is hectic and you're having a hard enough time preparing your taxes let alone learning the Italian language. And maybe the prospect of sinking $300 into Rosetta Stone doesn't sound like the best use of your hard earned cash.   But hey, don't give up! You can still learn Italian here and there...

by Darlene J. Swiger   The two educators teaching Italian in Harrison County schools have firsthand knowledge of their subject, thanks to their younger years living in Calabria, Italy. Superintendent Dr. Mark Manchin added Italian to the foreign language curriculum this year after a parent survey showed it was the most popular choice....

John Cabot University is pleased to welcome 25 teachers of Advanced Placement Italian Language and Culture to the Advanced Placement Summer Institute held on our campus this summer. The Institute, which will take place from July 8 to July 12, 2013, is sponsored by the College Board with the support of the Italian Government and the Embassy of Italy...

Verterà su diverse tematiche legate all'apprendimento ed all'insegnamento dell'italiano come lingua straniera, con un attenzione particolare sul ruolo delle nuove tecnologie (blog, wikis, forum ecc.) il corso che avrà luogo da mercoledì 15 a venerdì 17 gennaio all'Istituto Italiano di Cultura di Los Angeles.   Il seminaro, che si svolgerà tu...