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Alma Edizioni
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| Alma Edizioni is a young leading Italian publisher that throughout the past fourteen years has changed the scenario of IFL and ISL with its innovative approach based on the pleasure to teach and the pleasure to learn. The publisher’s catalogue lists some of the most appreciated texts for teaching Italian that have become classics, and is enriched every year with new and stimulating books that make a difference in class for both teachers and students. The Teachers Training Department, the Officina of Alma Edizioni, offers some of the most inspiring and stimulating workshops on teaching and learning strategies all over the world. |
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Magari
Magari is a language course of Italian as a foreign language for students of intermediated to advanced level. (from B1 to C1 of the European Common Framework).
It is particularly indicated for those students who know Italian pretty well (B1 level) and wish to brush up and perfect their language c skills in order to get to a higher level (C1).
As a matter of fact, Magari deals with the study of forms, syntax, style that belong to Italian but are hardly ever dealt with in Italian course books. It also offers a new approach to the study of more elementary materials and develops them in a stimulating way.
The course book is characterized by a strong cultural approach. The didactic units are divided into five thematic macro-areas (Society, Arts, Language, History, Geography), through which a rich profile of Italy is outlined in order to illustrate the most significant socio-cultural phenomena, the ideas, the tendencies, and the most recent trends in life style.
The graphic design of the book offers the reader with articles, info boxes, images, charts, which give to Magari a unique outline in the panorama of course books of Italian as a foreign language.
From a methodological point of view Magari is characterized by:
- a strong focus of textuality - attention to conversation analysis and pragmatics analysis (oral language) and to the analysis of text genres and discourse (written language)
- the spiral presentation of grammar through a process by steps of “falsifications” and further redefinitions of the grammar rules
- the particular outline of the lexical analysis based on the Lexical Approach
- the attention to the involvement and the cooperative learning approach
- the use of unconventional motivation strategies - the proposal of original strategies, creative and gay, but at the same time very structured
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Ambarabà
Ambarabà is a course of Italian for primary school children (6-10 years old). The course has been experimented for years by the Pedagogical Institute of Bolzano and can be used both abroad with foreign children or in Italy with mono or multi language speaking classes.
The methodological and didactic approach characterize Ambarabà as having:
- the richness and variety of language inputs that delineate a learning itinerary for the children who are continuously exposed to authentic language;
- the great attention given to oral skills and in particular listening comprehension skills –thanks to the countless audio materials and the original songs composed and performed by professional musicians;
- the accent given to the interactive aspect of learning and to cooperative learning, with the systematic offer of production or comprehension activities to be performed in pairs of groups;
- the attention to the children’s physical and multisensorial involvement, through Total Physical Response techniques;
- the use of clear, vivacious and immediate drawings that continuously interact with the text and stimulate imagination while reinforcing vocabulary use and comprehension.
Ambarabà 1 is for first grade children and includes: a children’s’ book that includes in a single volume the activities, the teacher’s instructions, the charts and games, two audio CDs, one with all the original songs composed by Paolo Perri and one for oral comprehension.
Ambarabà 2 is for second grade children and Ambarabà 3 is for third grade children. They include:
- a student books
- the exercises books
- a teacher’s guide with 2 audio CDs, one with all the original songs and texts, and one for oral comprehension.
Ambarabà 4 and 5 will be published in 2009 and 2010. |
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