Blending Italian “down-under”: Toward a theoretical framework and pragmatic guide for blending tertiary Italian language and culture courses through Skype-enhanced, pre-service teacher-centred telecollaboration

This contribution draws on the article by Carloni and Zuccala (2017), that offered a preliminary discussion of a joint telecollaborative project between Italian Studies at Monash University and the University of Urbino. The present work aims at providing a theoretical, as well as pragmatic, startin...

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Main Authors: Giovanna Carloni, Brian Zuccala
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Firenze University Press 2018-12-01
Series:LEA : Lingue e Letterature d'Oriente e d'Occidente
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Online Access:https://oajournals.fupress.net/index.php/bsfm-lea/article/view/7822
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Summary:This contribution draws on the article by Carloni and Zuccala (2017), that offered a preliminary discussion of a joint telecollaborative project between Italian Studies at Monash University and the University of Urbino. The present work aims at providing a theoretical, as well as pragmatic, starting point for developing a Pre-Service Teacher-centred model for a “sustainable”, cross-institutional, blended mode of delivering foreign language and culture tuition in the field of Italian
ISSN:1824-484X