Experience, competence and professionalism

Our teachers are all graduated in humanistic literature and they have many years of experience in teaching Italian language in Italy and abroad. They work for important publishing houses and newspaper and all of them are examiners PLIDA, CELI and CILS; all of them have got DITALS certificate, the certification of competence in teaching Italian to foreigners. All of them use the called "Communicative Approach" the goal of this approach is to teach students the new language through classroom activities that engage students in the process of negotiating meaning in everyday conversations, rather than in teacher-directed repetitions of contrived dialogues. Students are taught to be communicators, not learners merely of vocabulary and grammar as in the audio-lingual method. In this approach to teaching a new language, the emphasis is on developing motivation to learn through establishing meaningful, purposeful things to do with the new language. Individuality in using the new language is encouraged, as well as cooperation with peers, which promotes a sense of personal competence in the use of the target language.

EDUCATION COORDINATOR
She graduated in Modern literature at the University of Urbino. She tought Italian for 40 years in Italian public schools. This long experience allowed her to develop a special didactic useful for educational training courses, with a view to enhancing the distinctive features of the personality of each.
She is a founding member of the New Arcadia.

TEACHER

 He graduated in Italian literature at the "Sapienza" of Rome, he taught Italian language and culture in Abruzzo and in schools of Italian for foreigners in Milan. He has a long experience of teaching Italian language and culture gained in Brighton, England, and he works in the field of professional training and coaching. He also works to the creation of subtitles for shorts and mini commercials.