Registration Deadline October 11 for

The Department of French and Italian's

Italian Language Teachers' Workshop at the University of Southern California

"Culture in a Communicative Classroom"

in Los Angeles, CA

Saturday, October 15, 2016 

This one-day workshop at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles is an occasion for Italian language instructors from Southern California and beyond to come together to discuss teaching Italian at the novice and/or intermediate levels.  We designed this conference with the intention that participants will exchange actual lesson plans, activities, short video-clips of themselves interacting with their students, language acquisition technologies, materials, best practices, and strategies that they incorporate in their classrooms.  Our hope is that all participants in this one-day workshop will walk away with ideas and materials that they can immediately implement in their courses and will have the opportunity to make real connections with other Italian basic language professionals in their field.

The Keynote Speaker of the 2016 Italian Language Teacher's Workshop will be Daniela Bartalesi-Graf, Lecturer in Italian Studies at Wellesley College.  Her paper is entitled "Teaching Italian Culture to Millennials: Engaging Students with New Contents and Tasks"

For more information and to register please see the ILT workshop website at https://dornsife.usc.edu/italian-language-teachers-workshop-ilt/

Conference Registration deadline: October 11, 2016. 

Please send questions to Alessio Filippi and James M. Fortney at afilippi@usc.edu and fortney@usc.edu.

James M. Fortney, PhD
Assistant Professor (Teaching) of Italian
Director of the Summer Rome Program
Department of French and Italian
USC Dana and David Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
Taper Hall, Room 155 (THH 155)
University of Southern California
Los Angeles, CA 90089-0359
Fax: (213) 746-7297