Publications about the project

Shelves inside the Apice Archive in Milan.

Photo credits: La Statale Immagini

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. 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. 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.