The importance of guided learning: how an Italian language tutor can make all the difference to your learning pathway 

The Italian Academy regards its tutors as the unsung heroes who make all the difference to your learning pathway. Our Italian language tutors are all native speakers, and are highly specialised, qualified, and experienced in teaching Italian to foreigners. When deciding upon the best Italian language school to meet your own expectations and ambitions, the importance of choosing professional and competent language instructors will be a key consideration in your decision-making process. 

So, what makes a great Italian language tutor and how does their guidance make all the difference? 

Connecting with students: we recognize that students learn most effectively when they feel at ease and form a connection with their Italian language tutor. For this reason, our teachers promote a communicative teaching approach that focuses principally on helping students to express themselves and understand others, augmented by providing students with a thorough grasp of grammar. Our teachers really care about every student and this in turn enables each student to feel valued, confident, and comfortable in the learning environment, thereby achieving the optimum outcome from their time spent at The Italian Academy.  

Passion: Good Italian language tutors imbue their students with the same passion they feel for the language they teach. Passion is contagious and charismatic Italian language tutors ensure that classes are inspiring and stimulating, interactive and fun, and never, ever dull, or drab affairs. Our teachers celebrate in your successes!

Student participation: Italian language tutors at The Italian Academy are skilled in drawing the most out of all of our students. Some students are, by nature, more passive and less extrovert than others. However, through guidance and support, this is another of the areas where our great Italian language tutors can really make a difference. More reserved students are unlikely to be as engaged as their more extrovert peers, but through active collaboration and excellent interpersonal skills, our Italian language tutors ensure that no student is left behind. 

Progressive teaching leads to better outcomes: Not so long ago, the method of teaching a new language would focus on memorisation. This is not how we approach pedagogy at The Italian Academy. Communicative language teaching (CLT), is the methodology used by our Italian language tutors, who choose classroom activities that focus on what we believe to be the most effective way to facilitate students to develop communicative abilities in Italian. Oral activities take precedence over grammar drills as they involve conversation as well as creative, unpredicted responses from students. Activities vary depending on the level of the language class, but, under the guidance of the teacher, all focus on the same principle of promoting collaboration, fluency, and comfort in the Italian language. 

The importance of guided learning cannot be underestimated in language acquisition. There are dozens of EdTech apps that guarantee that you can achieve fluency in your target language without the need for a tutor. In our experience, this is simply not possible. As a supplement to live face-to-face teaching, it is perfectly reasonable for language app creators to promote their apps as useful adjuncts to the classroom experience. However, learning Italian in Italy under the guidance of professional, highly competent native Italian language speakers and instructors is far and away the best way of learning Italian. Great Italian language tutors make all the difference!