Welcome to Florence Language and Culture School,
Our Italian language course programs have been developed from a communicative based approach and focuses on the four language abilities (listening, speaking, reading, writing). Our reference teaching methodology is communicativism but not in its extreme consequences. We do think that language analyses is also important. For this reasons we divide o
ur standard course in two parts: "Language Analyses" and "Communicative Tasks". The language analyses activities include controlled oral and written production, while the communicative tasks involve listening and reading comprehension and free oral and written activities. Grammatical structures are presented in order of frequency and relative complexity. Teaching material is always introduced in some form of authentic text (newspaper or magazine article, taped dialogue, video-taped situation, letter, short story, etc.). Progress is monitored and all teachers meet weekly to facilitate organization and ensure proper student placement. The instructors rotate weekly to add variety and interest to the group dynamic.
