SPONSORED BY:
The Coccia Institute for the Italian Experience in America
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The Department of Spanish and Italian at Montclair State University
TEACHING ITALIAN
A SYMPOSIUM / WORKSHOP FOR INSTRUCTIONAL MATERIALS
MEETING V: CULTURE AT THE CORE OF UNIT
PLANNING
Friday, October 12, 2012
8:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.
Montclair State University
University Hall
7th Floor Conference Center & Lecture Halls
Instructors (or teachers) participating in this annual symposium will be engaged in both
methodological discussions and hands-on design to create pedagogically sound instructional materials
that have culture at the core of the units, lessons, activities, for use in curricula.
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Explore the 3Ps (products, practices, perspectives) within a proficiency-based framework
Examine and critique various design models
Discuss techniques to develop students’ language proficiency
Create your own series of materials for immediate classroom use
Specialists in Instructional Methodology in Foreign Language include:
*Enza Antenos-Conforti Montclair State University
*Anna De Fina Georgetown University
*Luciana Fellin Duke University
*Flavia Laviosa Wellesley College
*Jutta Schmiers-Heller Columbia University
Seven (7) Professional Development Credit Hours will be awarded
REGISTRATION FEE:
(includes Breakfast,
Luncheon, and Parking)
TO REGISTER:
QUESTIONS:
$50 All certified teachers of Italian
$25 Students of Italian Education
Please visit tinyurl.com/TeachingItalian5
Please contact Victoria Buchner at 973.655.7977 or vskbuchner@gmail.com
SPONSORED BY:
The Coccia Institute for the Italian Experience in America
– AND –
The Department of Spanish and Italian at Montclair State University
Meet the Presenters:
Enza Antenos-Conforti is Professor of Italian with the Department of Spanish and Italian at
Montclair State University, NJ. She is the Teacher Education Coordinator for the Italian
Program and Chair of the Academic Computing Committee. She earned her Ph.D. at the
University of Toronto and teaches various language and culture courses. Her recent research
interests explore emerging technologies (social networking, mobile computing) and their role
in foreign language teaching and learning. Recently, she presented on "Student Crossing:
Students, Literature & Technology" at the Congreso Primaveril of the NJ Chapter of the
American Association for Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese. She has worked at numerous
American and Canadian post secondary institutions. During a brief hiatus from academia,
Enza also worked with IBM Canada and Parmalat Canada.
Anna De Fina is Associate Professor of Italian Language and Linguistics atGeorgetown
University, where she is the Coordinator of the Italian Language Program. She is a consultant
with the College Board for the AP Italian Exam and has taught Italian language and
pedagogy both in the United States and in Mexico. Her research and publications focus on
language and discourse among Italian immigrant communities, identity, and narrative. Her
books include Analyzing Narrative (2011, Cambridge University Press, with Alexandra
Georgakopoulu), Identity in Narrative: A Study of Immigrant Discourse (2003, John
Benjamins), and the edited volumes Dislocations, Relocations, Narratives of Migration (2005,
St. Jerome Publishing, with Mike Baynham), Discourse and Identity (2006, Cambridge
University Press, with Deborah Schiffrin and Michael Bamberg), and Italiano e italiani fuori
d’Italia (2003, Guerra, with Franca Bizzoni). She is the autor of the texbook L’italiano così
com’è (1993, Universidad Autónoma de México).
Luciana Fellin is Associate Professor of the Practice in Italian Studies and Linguistics at Duke
University. She obtained a PhD in Second Language Acquisition and Teaching from the
University of Arizona where she specialized in sociolinguistics with a dissertation on
language socialization practices and dialect revival in Italy. She is Director of the Italian
Language Program at Duke University where she plans the language curriculum and teaches
courses in Italian language and culture, sociolinguistics, and on the Italian American
Experience. Her research interests focus on the study of language ideologies as linked to
language obsolescence, maintenance and revival; interactional sociolinguistics, language and
identity; language and power. Presently, she is working on an ethnographic project
investigating languages migrations and cultures with a focus on language and identity in
Italian American communities. Her most recent publications include: "Come insegnare
italiano agli oriundi italiani? Il caso degli italo-americani.”." Ed. Pierangela Diadori. DITALS,
Universita' per Stranieri di Siena, 2010. L. Fellin, A. Defina. (2010) "“Italian in the U.S.”."
Immigrant Language Patterns in the U.S. Ed. Potowski, K. (Ed.). Cambridge University Press,
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The Department of Spanish and Italian at Montclair State University
2010. L. Fellin. (2007) "Lost tongues and reinvented repertoires: ideologies of language and
creative communicative practices among third generation Italian-Americans." Studi Italiani di
Linguistica Teorica ed Applicata.
Flavia Laviosa is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Italian Studies at Wellesley College.
She holds a Ph.D. in Foreign Language Education and a M.A.. in European Film Studies and
Criticism at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland. Her research interests are in Italian
language methodology, Italian women directors, Southern Italy, and Euro-Mediterranean
studies. The inspiration for her language teaching methodology ranges from Humanistic and
Cognitive theories, to Communicative principles of foreign language pedagogy, and is also
strongly influenced by the Multiple Intelligences theory. Laviosa is the editor of the volume
Visions of Struggle in Women’s Filmmaking in the Mediterranean (Palgrave MacMillan,
2010).
Jutta Schmiers-Heller is a Senior Lecturer in German at the Department of Germanic
Languages and Literatures at Columbia University in the City of New York. She holds a
Masters Degree in Foreign Language Pedagogy (University of Münster, Germany, 1996) and
a Masters Degree in Applied Linguistics (Montclair State University, 2009). She came to the
United States on a Fulbright Scholarship in 1996 and taught German at Oberlin Collge as well
as serving as Director of Max Kade German House (1996-1998). While while pursuing her
graduate degree in Applied Linguistics at Montclair State, she also taught ESL, French, and
German. In 2002 she joined the Department of Germanic Lanugages and Literatures at
Columbia University where she teaches German language and her interests are in the areas of
second language acquisition, foreign language methodology, computer assisted language
learning and materials development.