Category Archives: Immigration

Inter-Imm, Italian for the Workplace and Prison

The university of Siena (Università per Stranieri di Siena) launches a new course entitled Inter-Imm, aiming to train teachers of Italian in the workplace, in immigration situations and also prison contexts. Intercomprehension techniques are central in the course, and language trainers will be trained … Continue reading

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Languages for Illiterate Adults

ILLIAD, the European project to promote Intercultural Language Learning among Illiterate Adults has very recently held a Good Practices Conference in Berlin.  The ILLIAD project aims to make language learning more inclusive for people from disadvantaged backgrounds. The Berlin conference … Continue reading

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Community building, storytelling and intercomprehension

Since 1995 The Associazione Interculturale Narramondi onlus has been taking community-building initiatives using storytelling and auditive learning as a basis for the integration of newcomers and their families. The role played by intercomprehension in those initiatives was once more confirmed in the Convivenza Vien … Continue reading

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