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ASPETTI DELL'INSEGNAMENTO DELL'ITALIANO IN GRECIA
On Teaching Italian Language in Greece

Author(s): Athanasia Drakouli, Anna Irini Tsatalbassoglou, Sofia Mamidaki
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies
Published by: Editura Universitaria Craiova
Keywords: civilization initiative; Iraklion (Crete); Italian language

Summary/Abstract: The present paper consists an attempt to analyze the implementation of an initiative concerning the diffusion of the Italian language and culture in Greece motivated by the high civilization sensibility of its protagonists. Fifteen Greek professors of the Italian language offer 40 hours free language courses to more than 1500 citizens of the city and the surrounding area of the Iraklion province in the island of Crete. With their considerable participation in the initiative, teachers and students send a very loud and clear message to the relevant state authorities and all officers, who are deaf and deprive the Greeks of the possibility to learn the Italian language in the Greek public schools.

  • Issue Year: 2013
  • Issue No: 1-2
  • Page Range: 220-236
  • Page Count: 17
  • Language: Italian