TEACHING METHODS

Our teaching method is based on communication, and students get daily practice of the four basic language functions of SPEAKING, LISTENING, READING and WRITING. Most of our textbooks have originated from direct didactic experience, and they follow the directions adopted by the main Universities for Foreign People located in Siena, Perugia and Rome. 

DIDACTIC MATERIAL

The didactic material used during lessons is original: newspaper and magazine articles, audio and video tapes, dialogues, movies and literature. The teachers' background allows the students  to combine practice with theory and to learn and use the grammar, the vocabulary and the idioms in the most natural way. 

TEACHERS 

The teachers of ACCADEMIA ITALIANA are all professors, who have received their degree at Italian universities, and have specialised in teaching Italian to foreigners. 

COURSES

Our courses are articulated into 6 MAIN LEVELS: from the ABSOLUTE BEGINNERS COURSE to ADVANCED. On one’s arrival, each student takes an admission test, both oral and written,  in order to be assigned to the most suitable course according to one’s degree of language skills and learning needs. Our STANDARD COURSE has been planned to receive 3-6 PEOPLE since in this way the teachers are able to monitor more closely the evolution of the class, the progress made and the difficulties met by each student. This restriction also makes it  easier for the students to overcome the natural hesitation experienced in speaking before others in a foreign language, since they feel at ease as if acting in a small group of friends