The aim of this paper is to foster teachers’ awareness in classroom interaction through Conversation Analysis for Second Language Acquisition (ca-for-sla). The focus is on the cases of students’ self-selection and on the ...

The paper proposes a reflection on the challenges of teaching Italian L2 for study purposes to Chinese-speaking university students. Such type of teaching is relatively recent in Italy and is currently object of great ...

In this paper I describe four stages which characterized a particular Italian as a foreign language teaching path for Slovak students. Different activities were realized during the stages concerning both verbal and nonverbal ...

This article reconstructs the history of the term “baccalà” [salted cod], which is present mainly in Italian, Portuguese and Spanish, formulating a new hypothesis as to its origin, connected with the trade of the product ...

The presence of italianisms in West Slavic languages forms a fairly complex issue. This phenomenon, due to the various historical and sociolinguistic conditions, can be especially observed in Polish language. Close relations ...

The Italian migration to the United States spurred a particularly dynamic and multifarious language contact between Italian varieties and American English. This lasted for more than 400 years and is characterized by wide ...

The paper presents a lexical survey for students of Italian in German Universities: these students were asked to indicate ten Italian words spontaneously associated to Italy and their favorite word. The results (to be used ...

The aim of this paper is to describe a corpus of 200 Italian or “Italianized” brand and product names of German companies: choosing a name which is, or “sounds”, Italian is a strategy to add value to the brand, mainly in ...

The essay analyzes some textbooks and grammar books for African natives which were used in the former Italian colonies of Libya and Horn of Africa and focuses on the debate about educational politics that took place in the ...

This essay follows the major milestone of the international success of Italian sung, from its early days in the grand opera to the 20th century in the song. This objective is accomplished by focusing not only on the language ...