STANDARD PLUS COURSE

Our Italian language course programs have been developed from a communicative based approach and focuses on the four language abilities (listening, speaking, reading, writing). Our first goal is communication, both oral and written. Our reference teaching methodology is communicativism but not in its extreme consequences (Krashen).
We do think that language analyses is also important. For this reasons we divide our STANDARD COURSE in two parts: “Language Analyses” and “Communicative Tasks”.
The language analyses activities include controlled oral and written production, while the communicative tasks involve listening and reading comprehension and free oral and written activities.
Teaching material is always introduced in some form of authentic text (newspaper or magazine article, taped dialogue, video-taped situation, letter, short story, etc.). Progress is monitored and all teachers meet weekly to facilitate organization and ensure proper student placement. The instructors rotate weekly to add variety
and interest to the group dynamic.

STANDARD PLUS COURSE is designed for those who, beyond the advantages of the Standard group course, want to have an extra individual hour (one-to-one) especially devoted to their individual language needs. This course includes 5 lessons per day language analysis AND communicative tasks PLUS 1 hour individual lesson per day.