Lecce: GiochiAmo il mondo, Italian language courses for students newly arrived in Italy.

Lecce: GiochiAmo il mondo, Italian language courses for students newly arrived in Italy.

At the start "GamesI love the world", I Italian language workshops for foreign students recently arrived in Lecce who attend schools public citizens of the first cycle (primary and lower secondary schools). Inserted in the educational offer plan of the area for this school year, the workshops are a project of the "Basic school online” financed with municipal resources and coordinated by the leading school of the network, the state teaching directorate 4th Circle “Sigismondo Castromediano”. To hold the lessons with a playful and motivating approach for the plearning course of the participants will be experts in teaching the Italian language for foreigners, supported by curricular teachers. The start of the courses was preceded by a survey to understand the needs in the city schools, which revealed that they are present 81 students new arrivals in Italy, 27 in primary schools and 54 in secondary schools, and 263 pupils with a minimum level of knowledge of the Italian language (147 in primary schools and 116 in secondary schools). We will therefore start with the courses dedicated to the so-called NAI students (an acronym indicating New Arrivals in Italy) which will be held on Saturday mornings at two schools: Ammirato-Falcone and Ascanio Grandi. Following this there will also be initiatives for boys and girls and boys with a level of knowledge corresponding to the first and second level.

The presentation of the project and an initial training session for teachers is planned Friday 13 October, at 16.30 pm, in the Paola Quarta auditorium of the Via Cantobelli complex with speeches by Fabiana Cicirillo, councilor for public education, and by Paola Leone, associate professor of Teaching of Italian as a second language and Teaching of Modern Languages, vice president of the Teaching Council in Languages, Cultures and Foreign Literatures and Scholars at Risk representative of the University of Salento.
«With this project, the municipal administration, in concert with the schools of the basic network, wants to provide – declares the councilor Cicirillo - the more useful tools to children who arrive in the city from foreign countries to be able to settle in as best as possible by immediately enabling them to learn our language, which is essential for socializing, relationships and learning. It is a project that will start with those who have just arrived and do not speak Italian at all and will then continue with those who still have a basic level of knowledge of the language. One way of improve integration in classes and give everyone the tools to get on par with their classmates."