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The Partisan And His Doppelganger: The Case Of Primo Levi, Ilona Klein
The Partisan And His Doppelganger: The Case Of Primo Levi, Ilona Klein
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Published in 1982, Se non ora, quando? (If Not Now, When?) is Primo Levi's first novel proper. Perhaps Primo Levi is regretted not fully living life as an Italian Jewish partisan that he re-created his lost dream through its pages, and had his partisan brigade not been captured, perhaps Levi's underground fighting might have continued until the end of the war. If Not Now, When? thus might reflect Levi's need to explore that sought-after life as a partisan, which he had been denied after only three months of activity. Did Live write If Not Now, When? as a …
Presenting Italian Comparative And Superlative Forms Of Adjectives To College L2 Beginners, Ilona Klein
Presenting Italian Comparative And Superlative Forms Of Adjectives To College L2 Beginners, Ilona Klein
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This study treats the necessity to de-emphasize the focus on grammar teaching alone in L2, and to introduce methods which are not teacher-centered, so as to enable students to interact more among each other.
By using comparative and superlative forms of adjectives – but in reality using a sequence of teaching techniques that could be applied to other grammatical situations – this article presents the use of sea shells as a visual and tactile aid which allows students to shift their L2 efforts from an abstract notion to a concrete usage.
This study offers a tool to attempt a balance …