NEWS and upcoming Events
XX SETTIMANA DELLA LINGUA ITALIANA NEL MONDO
Join us to celebrate the 20th Week of the Italian Language in the World: Italian Between Word and Image: Graffiti, Illustrations, Comic Books (October 19-25, 2020). MITA and the Consulate General of Italy in Boston are pleased to invite you to two major events this year.
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October 23, 2020
3:30pm online - free and open to the public The Consulate General of Italy in Boston and MITA (Massachusetts Italian Teachers Association) are pleased to offer a teacher’s webinar that focuses on Social Emotional Learning in the Italian curriculum. Vilma Bibeau and Paola Zanirato-Dorfman will share an introduction to the SEL framework and showcase model lessons with activities that can be applied to online and hybrid Italian language classes. Opening Remarks Federica Sereni, Consul General of Italy Adamo Castelnuovo, Director of Education Office Access the registration pf the webinar here (coming soon). |
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October, 20th
2020 9:30am online - free and open to the public Join us to celebrate the 20th Week of the Italian Language in the World; Italian Between Word and Image: Graffiti, Illustrations, Comic Books (October 19-25, 2020). Cara Takakijan (UMass Amherst) will offer a fascinating exploration of Italian comics, a hybrid art form of images and words that both reflects our time and helps to shape it. The power of comics lies in their ability to entertain young children who can barely read, reflect the joys and anxieties of teens, and offer insight into contemporary politics and social issues. This webinar will show how, even before TikTok, pop culture, media and youth were represented in the world of comics and how comics subsequently shaped the world. Free and open to the public. Access the registration pf the webinar here (coming soon). |
Opening Remarks:
Federica Sereni, Consul General of Italy Adamo Castelnuovo, Director of Education Office Presenter: Cara Takakijan, Ph.D. Undergraduate Program Director and Chief Undergraduate Advisor Italian Studies Program Dept. of Languages, Literatures and Cultures University of Massachusetts, Amherst |
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national italian exam 2021 - New Website
National Italian Exam 2021 Pilot Testing Registration The National Italian Exam has a new website! To learn more about the pilot testing and about the exam, visit us here. Employment opportunitiesLooking for a teaching position? Check out our special page. |
Mafla
MaFLA is going virtual through June 2021! While this means that the fall conference has been postponed to 2021 and they will not hold any in-person events during this time, we invite you to join their various virtual professional development events.
Please, visit the MaFLA website for more information. MITA workshop series 2019 - 2020
Join us for our first workshop of the Professional Development Series 2019-2020.
The series is organized by Northeastern University in collaboration with MITA and with the support of the Consulate General of Italy in Boston and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Check here for upcoming workshops in fall 2020. OUR members' recent publications On language teaching
Giusy Di Filippo and Martina Di Florio, Migrazioni Contemporanee: Testi e Contesti. New York: Edizioni Farinelli, 2017.
Cristina Pausini, Carmen Merolla, Interpretazioni: Italian Language and Culture through Film. Georgetown University Press, 2019.
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The American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL) and its Lead with Languages campaign, with the support of Pearson LLC and Language Testing International, commissioned Ipsos Public Affairs to conduct a survey of 1,200 U.S. employers, and the resulting 2019 report, Making Languages Our Business: Addressing Foreign Language Demand Among U.S. Employers, indicates an urgent and growing demand for language skills in the workplace.The report also suggests seven actionable recommendations that U.S. businesses may employ to fully leverage their employees’ language assets and to contribute to fostering a robust future multilingual workforce to better thrive in our global economy.
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