The school adopts student-based teaching methods, aimed at guiding students’ own learning through a variety of different activities. Classes are therefore small, so as to allow teachers to attend to individual students as well as to group activities.

The four basic skills of listening, reading, speaking, and writing are developed, along with important supplementary skills, such as those of presentation, debate, note-taking, and summarising.

As required by modern language teaching, students are encouraged to reflect actively on the language, identifying and describing particular grammatical forms, and to develop their vocabulary and speaking skills in oral activities like conversations and role-plays.
Students also study phonetics and the important differences between written and spoken Italian.

Besides standard Italian textbooks and the written materials developed by the school and by the teachers themselves, students also make use of the school’s audio-visual equipment and the internet.

Students’ progress is regularly checked over the course of the lessons, by means of brief individual and group verification tests.

 

COMMON EUROPEAN FRAMEWORK OF REFERENCE FOR LANGUAGES