Publications about the project

Nava A. 2014. Prescriptivism and the genre of pedagogical reference grammars for Italian students. Educazione Linguistica. Language Education EL.LE, 3(3), 405-417.

Nava A. 2018. A return to grammar amid the communicative ‘revolution’. Italian pedagogical grammar books for EFL students (1980-2000). In N. McLelland and R. Smith (eds.) The History of Language Learning and Teaching2: 19th-20th Century Europe, 246-259. Cambridge: Legenda.

Nava A. 2018. How did language professionals study English grammar in Italian universities before 1980? Italiano LinguaDue 1, 209-223. https://doi.org/10.13130/2037-3597/10587

Nava A. 2018. English grammaticography for university students in Italy (1999-2011): Pedagogical grammars or pedagogical presentations of linguistic theories? Studi Italiani di Linguistica Teorica e Applicata 47(2), 249-268. https://air.unimi.it/retrieve/dfa8b9a5-c124-748b-e053-3a05fe0a3a96/silta_2018.pdf

Nava A. 2019. Innovation, prescription and pedagogy. Which English is presented in English language teaching materials published in Italy in the late nineteenth/early twentieth centuries? Quaderni del CIRSIL 13, 123-144. https://amsacta.unibo.it/id/eprint/6547/1/CIRSIL%2013%20-%2007%20Nava.pdf

Nava A. 2021. A view from the continent: Describing spoken English and its grammar in mid-20th century in Italy. Expressio 5, 141-160.

Nava A. 2023. Writing in English in Italy – the ‘pre-history of academic writing. EuroAmerican Journal of Applied Linguistics and Languages, 10(2), 32-43. https://doi.org/10.21283/2376905X.1.10.2.2779

Nava A. 2024a. From knowledge telling to knowledge transforming. Towards a new view of writing in English language teaching in Italian universities in the last two decades of the 20th century. Quaderni del CIRSIL 17, 225-243. https://doi.org/10.6092/unibo/amsacta/7831.

Nava, A. 2024b. The ideology of spoken English in English grammaticography. Iperstoria 23, 261-281. https://doi.org/10.13136/2281-4582/2024.i23.1439.

Nava A. and Pedrazzini L. 2019. Italy ELT Archive. A historical archive of materials for English language teaching in Italy. Quaderni del CIRSIL 12, 291-314. https://www.torrossa.com/en/resources/an/4652622

Pedrazzini L. 2018. The spread of communicative language teaching: ELT in Italy in the 1980s and 1990s. In N. McLelland and R. Smith (eds.) The History of Language Learning and Teaching. 2: 19th-20th Century Europe, pp. 231-245. Cambridge: Legenda.  

Pedrazzini L. 2023. “Reflection on language”. Innovation and tradition in ELT textbooks in Italy in the 1980s and 1990s. In R. Smith and T. Giesler (eds.) Innovation in Language Learning and Teaching: Historical perspectives, pp. 137-161. Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing.

Pedrazzini L. 2024. Teaching English for Specific Purposes in Italy: Syllabuses and textbooks for technical secondary schools (1850-2000). InVerbis 2, 25-45. https://doi.org/10.7368/115580.

Ruskov M. and Tenca E. 2025. Building an archive of ELT materials used in the 20th century in Italy: Preliminary observations. In M. Cornia et al. (eds.). Proceedings of the 21st Conference on Information and Research science Connecting to Digital and Library science. Udine, Italy, February 20-21, 2025. CEUR Workshop Proceedings 3937. https://ceur-ws.org/Vol-3937/paper14.pdf

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