Table of Contents:
  • Introduction /
  • Emanuele Occhipinti
  • pt. I.
  • Curricular innovations:
  • ch. 1.
  • Eliminating the "gap" through circular innovation /
  • Janice M. Aski and Heather Webb
  • ch. 2.
  • Task-based instruction in intermediate Italian: a research-supported model /
  • Tom Means
  • ch. 3.
  • What can be obtained from project work? A case study /
  • Assunta Giuseppina Zedda
  • ch. 4.
  • The conversation hour: the making of an experiment /
  • Simona Wright
  • ch. 5.
  • Teaching learnable grammar /
  • Camilla Bettoni and Bruno Di Biase
  • pt. II.
  • Teaching Italian with technology:
  • ch. 6.
  • Enhancing the student experience through technology: making language learning more meaningful through a department VLE /
  • Clella Boscolo, Alison Davies, Kelly Smith
  • ch. 7.
  • 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.
  • Confronting new technologies: a cross-cultural telecollaborative project across the ocean /
  • Silvia Carlorossi, Francesca Helm, Nicoletta Marini-Maio, Kathryn K. McMahon
  • ch. 9.
  • Podcasting and iPod in teaching and learning Italian language, culture and literature: a research study at Universitâe de Montrâeal, Canada /
  • Jacqueline Samperi Mangan
  • pt. III.
  • Teaching Italian translation:
  • ch. 10.
  • Teaching Italian translation: a challenge /
  • Luciana d'Arcangeli
  • ch. 11.
  • Translation in teaching Italian as L2: evolution or involution? /
  • Sandro Sciutti
  • ch. 12.
  • 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.
  • Teaching Italian as a foreign language for academic and professional purposes. Juridical and informative language. Teaching suggestions for students and legal professionals /
  • Manuela Visigalli
  • pt. IV.
  • Teaching Italian culture:
  • ch. 14.
  • Visual literacy: teaching Italian culture through images /
  • Daniela Bartalesi-Graf
  • ch. 15.
  • A visual socio-cultural approach to Italian women's studies /
  • Flavia Laviosa
  • ch. 16.
  • Building an intercultural identity in a cross-cultural transition: a short term stay case study /
  • Barbara Spinelli, Roberto Dolci
  • ch. 17.
  • Evaluating cultural proficiency in an upper level Italian culture course /
  • Romana Capek-Habekoviâc, Sandra Palaich
  • ch. 18.
  • Cultural acquisition and language learning: the IVC, Chiavi di Lettura Project /
  • Christine Ristaino, Judith Raggi-Moore
  • ch. 19.
  • From the past to the present: history of the Italian culture /
  • Nicla Reverso
  • pt. IV.
  • Teaching Italian culture through film:
  • ch. 20.
  • Italian language and culture in close-up: using film at all levels of proficiency /
  • Kerstin Pilz
  • ch. 21.
  • Teaching visual thinking, in and out of the Italian canon /
  • Thomas Erling Peterson
  • ch. 22.
  • 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.
  • Teaching Italian culture through songs:
  • ch. 23.
  • Teaching Italian culture through songs: "non solo canzonette" /
  • Paola Vettorel
  • ch. 24.
  • Italian freaks and punks: history of Italian culture from 1950s to 2005 retold by protest songs /
  • Silvia Boero.