CENTRO EDUCAZIONE ai MEDIA - CEM - Italy

List of the team

• Annarità Calabrò : teacher of Sociology at the University of Pavia . She will work with us in the analysis of the LA productions of our targets
• Andrea Cerioli : cooperativa Con-tatto: working with non-native speakers, young and elders
• Cristina Fraccaro: teacher in the educational system for Italian as a foreign language. Pupils between 11 and 16
• Thérèse Manconi, teaching at the University in the Language Department
• Angela Marinoni, person responsible for the didactic area in the association: “Ci siamo anche noi” devoted to the Italian as foreign language teaching
• Eleonora Salvadori, teaching at the University, Communication Department and to elders; collaborating with teachers of foreign languages, in schools or retired
• Anna Schiavi – Cooperativa Con-tatto, teaches Italian as foreign language in schools with young pupils not native speakers and in private schools
• Antonella Strazzari, teaching in the educational system to adults with a low literacy.

Target/s

• Classes attended by pupils (from 10 to 17) who are not native speakers just arrived in Italy
• Classes of the primary level attended by pupils not native speakers
• Classes with young migrants second generation
• Classes with adults with a low level of literacy
• Students at the university
• Elders learning foreign languages
• Foreign Languages teachers

Objectives :

• To have a more detailed view of the situation of languages in our context (Provincia di Pavia)
• To investigate the relationship between languages (plurilingualism) and new identities
• To create different didactic materials to introduce and experiment in the different educational levels
• To elaborate different proposals for language teachers writing their language autobiography and for its analysis.