Ufficio Scolastico - Consolato Generale d’Italia
Italian Consulate General - Education Department

RESOURCES FOR TEACHING ITALIAN

SOURCES FOR RESOURCES

 ITALIAN for ITALIANS (authentic resources)

 ITALIAN for IMMIGRANTS (Italian as a second language)

 ITALIAN as a FOREIGN LANGUAGE

 ITALIAN for schools in the UK

ITALIAN for ITALIANS (authentic resources)

for CHILDREN

Comprehensive categorized directory of websites featuring hundreds of searchable links

User-friendly educational software and learning materials from a Local Education Authority (USP Bologna)

Educational software for children (up to lower secondary)

Italian nursery rhymes and songs for children

Multilingual library (also audiobooks)

Children’s multilingual dictionary

English –Italian picture dictionary

Internet Picture Dictionary

Games for children

Games for children on Italian regions

Mute maps

Pictures of Rome for Children

for SECONDARY STUDENTS

for ADULTS

Website of the «Società Dante Alighieri» for the promotion of Italian worldwide

Website of the «Accademia della Crusca» for the History of the Italian Language

Dictionaries

 http://www.educational.rai.it/lemma/

Search engines for newspapers, magazines, radio and TV

On-line libraries

Tourism, weather forecast, curiosities

Italian Phonetics

Website on Neorealism

Film trailers, sound tracks, film reviews

Recipe videos and TV advertisements

ITALIAN for IMMIGRANTS (Italian as a second language)

for CHILDREN

Resources for Italian as a second language by RAI Educational

Multilingual presentations and resources from Local Authorities Services for immigrants

Categorized directories of websites with simplified texts for learning different subjects

“ALI per imparare” - Teaching modules

ITALIAN as a FOREIGN LANGUAGE

Language skills assessment

Courses, lessons, grammar, exercises

 http://academic.brooklyn.cuny.edu/modlang/carasi/site/pageone.html

 http://www.uvm.edu/~cmazzoni/3grammatica/grammatica

Italian grammar

 http://www.education.vic.gov.au/languagesonline/italian/italian.htm

Free resources for language teachers and students (State of Victoria Australia)

A simplified magazine, useful for people who are in the early stages of learning Italian as a second or foreign language

Directories of useful Websites

 http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~rll/resources/italian/students

For TEACHERS

Teaching resources for Italian institutions abroad on the website of The National Agency for Schools

Resources from University Ca’ Foscari

Magazine for teachers of Italian as a FL- Edizioni Guerra

Website of LEND, Association of FL teachers

ITALIAN for schools in the UK

 ITALIAN - ENTRY LEVEL

CD produced by Cambridgeshire County Council as part of a TEACL project (Technology to Enhance Adult and Community Learning). The project was funded by the Learning and Skills Council and managed by NIACE (National Institute of Adult Continuing Education).

- Proprietary software made available free of charge

Resources produced, collected and made available by

Italian teachers working for our Education Department

 CDs for Primary and Secondary schools available on request

 Web link

 Forum for teachers of Italian

Contact:

Special thanks to:

Alessandro Dell’Aira from the Education Department of the Italian Consulate in Sao Paulo – Brasil for providing a complete and categorized guide guide of useful websites

Università Ca’ Foscari – Venezia for the list of websites provided

Italian teachers Tiziana Del Vecchio, Maria Grazia Pisano, Luca

Cantarutti, Michela Measso, Cecilia Santangeli for their work in producing, collecting and organizing the teaching resources

Loredana Pavone from Università di Catania

Luigia Cuomo for providing the Entry Level Course (Cambridgeshire County Council)