ITA - Italian

Supplementing the Elementary Italian curriculum with listening exercises based on film clips

This project arises out of the need for appropriate listening material for first-semester Italian at the University of Pennsylvania. The text currently used, "Qui Italia", published in Italy, is lacking in helpful listening exercises. Film clips will serve to provide a much richer input than voices from a cd or a cassette and will enable students to immediately understand at least the context in which the dialogue takes place. The use of clips will be followed up by a viewing of the entire film, which will be much easier to understand in its entirety because of the work done previously with the clips. Because this course is taught in multiple sections, the material will be made available on a website for the purpose of making it readily available to all instructors.

The Holocaust: An Italian Perspective

Development of a Web site devoted to texts and films on the Holocaust in Italy and intended for students of intermediate and advanced Italian.

Italy On-Line: A Resource for Italian Language Teaching on the World Wide Web

First-stage of the development of a Web site on Italian culture; the section on politics is mounted.

Interactive Materials for the Ecco l`Italia videodisc

Development of materials for thirty-six segments of the Italian video magazine Ecco l`Italia, five sixty-minute issues produced in 1989-90.

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Development of materials on opera and activities for conversation, grammar, and vocabulary for elementary and intermediate Italian.

Database of Italian Festivals, Part II

Continuation of the evelopment of a database of Italian festivals and festivities, a Web-based resource for language teaching.

Purchase of Italian VIdeotapes

Purchase of videotapes produced by the ItalianNational Television Network to be used as a supplement to grammatical texts in Intermediate Italian.

Mutlimedia Italian Materials

Development of video and text materials for advanced Italian, with modifications for elementary Italian.

MacLang Exercises for Intermediate Italian

Development of listening comprehension exercises for intermediate Italian. With Luigi Burzio.

MacLang Exercises for Intermediate Italian

Development of listening comprehension exercises for intermediate Italian. With Luigi Burzio.