The Italian Language School is an institution belonging to the Department of Humanities of the University of Palermo. It promotes language learning, teacher training and research in the field of Second Language Acquisition and Italian as a Second/ Foreign Language.
The School regularly organises courses of Italian Language and Culture, welcoming students from all over the world. The growing activity of the School is structured on different levels with the double aim of placing the learner in the centre of the teaching activities and proposing a model of language that is close to the linguistic and cultural habits on one side, and to the territorial and social environment on the other side.
Regarding education and teacher training, the School works in close cooperation with two postgraduates courses in Italian Language Acquisition. The School also promotes and hosts international seminars for teachers of Italian on the most up-to-date methodologies in language teaching.
The School signs international agreements with universities of different countries of the world to promote and spread its activities. Many agreements on teaching and scientific cooperation have already been signed and many others are being initialised.