Valletta – The Italian Cultural Institute in Valletta and the Department of Humanities and Languages in Education Education Faculty of the University of Malta continue to promote Italian language teaching thanks to their their close established and mutual collaboration. Saturday 14 and Monday, May 16 two major training sessions were organised aimed at Italian teachers in Maltese schools and towards University students. These initiatives, initiated by the Director of the Cultural Institute, Salvatore Schirmo and the Dean of the Faculty of Education, Sandro Caruana, have seen the Department of Linguistics and Comparative Cultural Studies at the”Ca ‘Foscari” University of Venice propose many seminars titled respectively “the didacticism of authentic materials for Italian as a foreign language” and “the CLIL methodology and microlanguage”. (9Colonne)