Friday, October 26, 2018
8:30 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.
Conference Center (University Hall 7th floor)
Montclair State University
Montclair, New Jersey
PLEASE NOTE: Registration closed October 19, 2018
NOTE: Seven (7) Professional Development credit hours will be awarded
Registration fee (includes Breakfast, Luncheon, and Parking)
$50 (only $25 for Graduate students / Prospective teachers of Italian)
Keynote Address:
Annavaleria Guazzieri, Education Office, Consulate General of Italy
Building bridges between Art and Language
Art is fundamental to human life just as much as language is. Language teachers, who are not artists or art critics, may be able to foster creativity, enjoyment and deeper language learning in students by introducing Art in their language curriculum. Although Art and Foreign Language teaching are not, usually, closely connected in the school curriculum, the presentation will try to capture the role that the Arts can play in the process of learning a foreign or a second language, building a bridge between two, seemingly, distant areas of knowledge.
Moving from the founding principles of the Content and Language Integrated Learning Approach (CLIL), an operative model responding to different students’ interests and aptitudes will be offered to teachers, applicable to many different age groups and contexts, from elementary to high school classes.
Art and beauty are at the core of Italian culture and life. There are currently 53 UNESCO sites in Italy, and many of these include entire cities (Firenze, Roma, Naples, Palermo) and/or natural habitats (such the Dolomites, Venice and its Lagoon, the Aeolian Islands, and others).
Teachers of Italian can find inspiration in a huge range of works of Art, produced by Italian or world artists, and places of outstanding natural beauty, to make the teaching of the Italian language more creative and involving.
Art, in its many forms and languages, provides a powerful means of integrating the “student’s self” and her/his active participation in the language learning process. Furthermore, CLIL art activities also provide opportunities to engage with the target language culture (without being ethno-centric, but, on the contrary, demonstrating the openness of Italian Art towards other cultures), to find out more about the history and geography of Italy, and to provide an incentive for local field trips, especially in the Greater New York area, which is home to exceptional Italian art collections.
“Italian Art in Teaching & the Art of Teaching Italian”
Panel discussion moderated by Enza Antenos, Montclair State
Panelists are:
Annavaleria Guazzieri, Consulate General of Italy ♦ Matteo Broggini, Centro di lingua e cultura italiana per stranieri (Milano) ♦ Matilde Fogliani, The Graduate Centure, CUNY & Luisanna Sardu, Manhattan College ♦ Gina Gallo, Bristol Central High School (CT)