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Tania Convertini

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Tania Convertini

Language Program Director

Department of French and Italian
6087 Dartmouth Hall
Hanover, NH 03755-3511

Office:  314 Dartmouth Hall

Telephone:  (603) 646-3271
Fax:  (603) 646-3211
Tania.Convertini@Dartmouth.edu

Ph.D. University of Wisconsin-Madison

I have been teaching language and culture in the US since 2002, experiencing a variety of different academic settings.  What I find in all language students, beyond their cultural background and their ultimate academic goal, is the desire to engage and to play with new languages.  I have found that bringing to class elements of culture, literature, film, theater and authentic readings, makes the learning experience meaningful and deep.  I have researched and published on the use of film in the language class and I am working on a project considering the approach to the literary and cinematic texts from a multiple intelligence perspective.  I am committed to bringing social media and new technologies into the learning environment, and extending the class community beyond the classroom walls.  At Dartmouth I direct the French and Italian Language Program.

Tania Convertini is organizer of the first Language Share Fair at Dartmouth College.

Primary Interests
Language Pedagogy
Digital Pedagogy
Teaching with Multiple Intelligences
Use of Cinema and Literature in Language Teaching
Italian Cinema
20th and 21st Century Italian Literature

Selected Publications

  • "Do You Want to Tweet? Better Be in Italian!  A Microblogging Project in Two Second-semester Italian Language Classes,"  Mosaic A Journal for Language Teachers, Edition Soleil Publishing (forthcoming 2011).
  • "From Ponticelli to Posillipo: A Child's Emotional War in Capuano's La Guerra di Mario,"  Cinemascope Independent Film Journal, 13 (2009).
  • "Insegnare lingua con il cinema: una prospettiva alternativa," Italica, 83.1 (2006), 22-23.

Selected Presentations

  • "Are Your Students Just Watching?  Film and the Five Senses in the Foreign Language Class,"  AAIS, University of Michigan, April 2010.
  • "Micro-blogging in the FL Classroom Why?"  Indiana University-Bloomington, Spring 2010.
  • "Culture and Beyond: The Literary Text in Intermediate Language Courses,"  Teaching and Learning Symposium-University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2009.
  • "Infusing Task-Based Activities into a Standard, Intermediate, Grammar-Based Italian as a Foreign Language Course,"  AATI/AAIS, Genova-Italy may 2006.

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Last Updated: 4/3/13