Digital Resources, Creativity and Innovative Methodologies in Language Teaching and Learning.

Intro -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- Part One: Keynote Addresses -- Chapter One -- Chapter Two -- Chapter Three -- Chapter Four -- Part Two: Digital Resources for Teaching and Learning Languages -- Chapter Five -- Chapter Six -- Chapter Seven -- Chapter Eight -- Part Three: Teaching Approaches and Methodologies -- Chapter Nine -- Chapter Ten -- Chapter Eleven -- Chapter Twelve -- Chapter Thirteen -- Part Four: Language Policy in University Language Centres -- Chapter Fourteen -- Chapter Fifteen -- Chapter Sixteen -- Chapter Seventeen -- Part Five: Creativity in Foreign Language Teaching -- Chapter Eighteen -- Chapter Nineteen -- Chapter Twenty -- Chapter Twenty-One -- Part Six: Language Assessment and Testing -- Chapter Twenty-Two -- Chapter Twenty-Three -- Chapter Twenty-Four -- Part Seven: Teaching and Learning Language and Culture -- Chapter Twenty-Five -- Chapter Twenty-Six -- Part Eight: Teaching Italian as a Second language -- Chapter Twenty-Seven -- Chapter Twenty-Eight -- Part Nine: CLIL / EMILE in Language Teaching and Teacher Training -- Chapter Twenty-Nine -- Chapter Thirty -- Chapter Thirty-One -- Chapter Thirty-Two -- Chapter Thirty-Three -- Contributors.

The concept of university language centres has changed in recent decades. Initially conceived as laboratories for practical and autonomous language-learning, they are now considered as places with more specific and complex functions in language teaching and learning. University language centres now constitute networks for exchanging knowledge and know-how in order to respond to ever-changing, multilingual and multicultural contexts. At the same time, the availability and acquisition of new technologies is contributing to the creation of new tools for the provision of appropriate services and training. This collection covers a wide range of topics related to the activities, experiences and applied research carried out in Italian university language centres. It provides further evidence of the important role university language centres play in promoting language expertise, developing tools and adopting digital resources, and providing support and training for language teaching. Technology, creativity, methodologies and plurilingualism are key topics in the book as they constitute the essential ingredients for effective and successful language teaching and learning. The volume's thirty-three chapters provide multi-perspective approaches, showing how the real contexts of current language education need the integration of theoretical backgrounds with the best practices resulting from practical experience.

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