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.

Introduction to Literature in Italian

Development of language materials for the introductory course to Italian literature.

Database of Festivals

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

Computer-Based Exercises for Elementary Italian

Conversion of exercises from MacLang to SuperMacLang format.

Computer-Based Exercises for Elementary Italian

Conversion of exercises from MacLang to SuperMacLang format.

CD-ROM on Italian Gestures, Part II

Annotation of video segments with transcription of dialog and explanation of gestures in Italian and English by Maria Lombaro and Marie Orton.

Italy`s Cultural and Linguistics Diversity

Development of Web-based multimedia units presenting the contemporary linguistic situation of different regionas of italy.

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.