(27 May 2016) The Italian Cultural Institute in Valletta and the Faculty of Educational Sciences- Department of Humanities and Languages in Education at the University of Malta continue to promote Italian language teaching through their close and established collaboration. In recent days two major training initiatives were organised aimed at Italian teachers in Maltese schools and students of the Order of Malta. The seminar, sponsored by the Italian Embassy to Malta, was organised thanks to the financial support of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation – Directorate General Country System. These initiatives, set in motion by the Director of the Cultural Institute, Salvatore Schirmo and the dean of the Faculty of Education, Sandro Caruana, have witnessed the Department of Linguistic Studies and Comparative Culture of “Ca ‘Foscari” University of Venice giving two seminars, titled “the didacticism of authentic materials for Italian as a foreign language” and “the Clil methodology and microlanguage” (Content and Language Integrated Learning).In the first of two events, held at the Waterfront Hotel in Sliema, Profesor Giuseppe Maugeri, who also teaches teaching methodologies for Italian to foreigners at the University of Catania, has offered Maltese teachers a theoretical and practical reflection on teaching Italian as a foreign language by presenting useful methodological and operational tools in everyday teaching. Graziano Serragiotto, Professor of Teaching Modern Languages and English Language at the Venetian University and director of the Itals Laboratory and Scientific Director of the level 1 Itals Master, spoke at the University of Malta. His research expertise renders him one of the most currently respected in the field of language teaching and training of teachrs in Italian as a foreign language. Professor Serragiotto illustrated to Maltese students the benefits of a Clil teaching approach type (Red)
