Italy ELT Archive
A project at the University of Milan promoting research into the history of English language education in Italy during the 20th Century.
https://italy-elt-archive.unimi.it
- 📚Foreign Language Teaching in Italy: Innovation and tradition in ELT in the 1960s-1990s 📚 Read a post by Luciana Pedrazzini on the website of the project English at a time of transition (1970-1990) in Catalonia. anglescatalunya1980.wordpress.com/2026/01/08/f...
- The post is based on her talk during the international seminar "A sociolinguistic historicisation of foreign language learning", Faculty of Arts and Humanities, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, 9 January 2025.
- 🥁🥁🥁New post on our website!🥁🥁🥁 We start the new year by looking back to one of the main events of 2025, the International Inter-Association Conference on the History of Language Learning and Teaching (ICHoLLT) in Como. Check out the post to read about two presentations related to the IELTA project.
- Reposted by Italy ELT Archive📣📣📣 Dear Bluesky folks, with my colleague Eva Skopečková (University of West Bohemia, Czech Republic) we’re organising Seminar 1 at the 2026 ESSE conference! 📣📣📣
- 📄Two new research articles about the Italy ELT Archive out now! 📄
- One, published by Italiano LinguaDue, describes the design and the develpment of our digital archive, and it analyses how it can be used for researching second language awareness and for training teachers. riviste.unimi.it/.../promoita...
- The other, published by Iperstoria, is a case study about the ELT materials production of one of the authors in our Archive, Esther Menascè (1960s-1980s). iperstoria.it/article/view...
- It’s a wrap! Many thanks to the Organisers at the University of Insubria for this year’s ICHoLLT! It’s been a great event, and a true pleasure to attend so many inspiring paper presentations!
- 🌥️The sun is finally shining on the first day of ICHoLLT 2025 and we are looking forward to more interesting talks today!🌥️
- We are live from the PCE of ICHoLLT 2025 dedicated to PhD students and ECRs, with many thought-provoking presentations and lively discussions
- ⏳Three more sleeps until ICHoLLT 2025 in Como!⏳ But don't miss the PCE event on 3 June dedicated to PhD Students and ECRs! Our own @manutenca.bsky.social will be there to talk about the design and development of IELTA. www.uninsubria.eu/sites/sten/f...
- A presentation of our archive was published in the #IRCDL2025 proceedings. It features some formal considerations behind the project, notably an analysis of representation of the book sample. ceur-ws.org/Vol-3937/#pa... The report is written by @mapto.qoto.org.ap.brid.gy and @manutenca.bsky.social.
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- 📣📣 New post on our website! 📣📣 Read about the invited talk given by prof. Luciana Pedrazzini (our PI) at the international seminar "A sociolinguistic historicisation of foreign language teaching" held in Barcelona on 8 January! italy-elt-archive.unimi.it/a-sociolingu...
- Reposted by Italy ELT ArchiveWhy – and how to – incorporate practitioner research into language teacher education? Two responses here: 1) Recording of an inspiring session on preservice teacher education: youtu.be/VTEwv0wFVXo?... 2) A short article I wrote for the British Council: www.teachingenglish.org.uk/professional...
