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Italia Italiano. Leggi l'Italia, impara l'italiano. Siena: PuntoCom, 2007 (vol. 1) and www.italiaitaliano.it by subscription
Harvard University professor and applied linguist, Patricia Chaput, speaks and writes passionately about language teaching and about some of the ubiquitous myths that teachers of Second Language (target language taught in the country of the target language) and Foreign Language (target language taught in an area where the target language is not the language of communication) encounter almost on a daily basis. Among those is the myth that speaking should precede the other skills; reading may safely be postponed until later. In reality, reading proficiency should remain a high priority in any FL or SL classroom. Studies have shown that reading proficiency in another language comes about through the careful integration of all skills, and especially listening. In order to have them... |
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