Casa Africa School provides intercultural language education in Rome. It teaches Italian to over 5 million immigrants in Italy, who make up 8% of the population. The school enhances communication between people of different cultures through preserving one's own culture while learning about others without prejudice. Lessons apply socio-cultural models to language skills, focusing on diversity within cultures compared to Italian culture.

1. Welcome
to Casa Africa
School

2. Our School
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3. «Casa Africa Onlus» SCHOOL
a testimony
of
«intercultural» learning
of the Italian language in Rome

4. A bit of numbers
In 2017 there were more than
5,000,000 of immigrats in Italy
the 8%
of the whole Italian people

5. In 2018
the number is raising
significantly

6. What about
the
respect and the observance
of all the cultures?

7. Enhance the
communication
between people
of different culture

8. communication
between different cultures
is possible
if
the learning of the language
has got
a cultural dimension

9. No easy
but possible
How

10. 1.by preserving your own culture
in order to make it spread
2.by knowing the other
cultures without prejudices

11. 1.
Every culture has the right to preserve
its identity
without conforming to the prevailing culture
in order to…

12. 2.
be enriched by getting in touch
with other cultures
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13. and see our reality
our different cultural realities
not only with our eyes:
Interculturalism

14. In our multicultural classrooms
we teach
Language Education applied to
socio-cultural models

15. Example of lesson
on an Italian cultural model
«Today we have pasta»

16. language skills
§ use of morphosyntaxes (to give meaning to the
answers)
§vocabulary on pasta (type, ingredients)
and
cultural experiences
§ focusing on the diversity of one's own culture
compared to the Italian

19. Tired?