Halloween Party for Kids

Our annual Halloween Party is this Friday, October 28, from 6 -8pm.
 Associazione Italo Americana, Via Roma 15, Trieste
There will be games, candy and best costume awards.
Come get spooked with us and tell your students about the party.

Please call for reservations at 040630301 and a €5 donation per family is requested.

Halloween Culture Lesson

Want to know more about the Halloween culture lesson?  Ask a student from Corsi Middle School.  We spooked them last year and had a ghoulish good time!.  Check out the visit here.
For more information on how you can request a visit to your school and all the school programs in English available for your students, contact Janine at 3297883810 or call the AIA office 040630301.

English Classes Still Open!

The Associazione Italo Americana offers English classes for adults and kids.  Annual courses start this week, but there is still time to sign up.  So please, tell your students about us and check out the annual schedule here.  

Our classes are small and conversation based.  Come have fun and improve your English with us!

Out Loud Word Study Proven Effective

A recent study in the Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, supported the idea that saying words aloud can help you remember them. So go ahead, encourage your students to study aloud, it will help them recall the information later.

Here is another article that suggests some memory techniques to improve students learning of new vocabulary.

                                                       Happy Teaching!

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TESOL-Italy 2011

This year the TESOL-ITALY convention looks particularly interesting. Words and Worlds will be held on November 18th and 19th in Rome.  Some of the themes are:
    Content Through Language
     Identity and Diversity
     Primary Language Education
     Motivation in Language Learning

Pre-registartion only costs €55, and that includes 2012 TESOL-Italy membership, 5 issues of the newsletter via e-mail, and 2 of the academic journal Perspectives.

Not to mention a weekend in Rome. I hope you can make it!

Be the Best Teacher You Can Be!

September always revives my passion for teaching.  I often ask myself, How can I improve this year? What new research is out there that will inform my teaching?  Then I start looking for answers to my questions.

This year I will share the answers I find with you.  I will blog about and provide links to professional development opportunities for language teachers, when I find out about them myself.   I will also let you know about research articles I find particularly helpflul and informative.

So check out my next post about TESOL-ITALY 2011.

EFL Teachers Website!

I stumbled upon this GREAT website for EFL teachers today. It's called EFL Classroom 2.0.

It is free to sign up and you can access thousands of resources for teaching. Everything from lessons to music videos with cloze lyrics, all free to download!

I can see this becoming a useful addition to my arsenal of teaching websites.

I hope you find it valuable too.