Traditional media, such as television and cinema, provide rich audiovisual input that is
conducive to language acquisition, as research in the field has shown. This includes …

The location of the Maltese Islands, at the centre of the Mediterranean Sea, places them as a
reference for regional climatic, tectonic and marine processes that have affected the …

This article offers a review of some of the major issues of bilingualism in education in Malta.
It starts by contextualising the current situation in a historical perspective. From the macro …

Traditionally bilingual Maltese school populations are increasingly linguistically diverse, due
to intensified migration flows. To shed light on central issues to be addressed by policy …

Malta has a long-standing, successful bilingualism. There is a strong political and societal
desire in Malta to maintain balanced Maltese-English bilingualism, as well as an …

This article addresses the issue of teacher codeswitching in the teaching of Italian in Malta.
The analysis of teacher codeswitching shows that the learners' first language (L1), Maltese …

Recent research on L2 acquisition has been stressing the potential of audiovisual
translation as a tool for boosting foreign language competence. Whereas most studies have …

In this paper we first provide an overview of recent Italian migration to Malta and we then
focus our attention on the experiences and perceptions of 42 Learning Support Educators …

For many years it had been considered axiomatic that in the foreign language classroom
exposure to the target language should be emphasized, and that the learners' native …

Recent global migration trends and an increase in worldwide human mobility are currently
contributing to unparalleled challenges in the area of literacy and education within …