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  • Lingua e comunita in coro: A community choir as a space for language learning, social interaction, and wellbeing

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    Author(s)
    Kennedy, Claire
    Miceli, Tiziana
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    Kennedy, Claire F.
    Miceli, Tiziana
    Year published
    2017
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    Abstract
    This article concerns a special learning space populated by Italians and Italian learners: the choir formed in Brisbane as a joint initiative between a community association and the Italian teaching staff at Griffith University. Our aim, in involving our students in the choir, was to bring them together with L1 speakers in an environment that would be stimulating but supportive, given the collective, creative goal. We envisaged that interaction in this space would help develop the students’ language proficiency, intercultural competence, and cultural knowledge, while also bringing the psychosocial benefits of choral singing ...
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    This article concerns a special learning space populated by Italians and Italian learners: the choir formed in Brisbane as a joint initiative between a community association and the Italian teaching staff at Griffith University. Our aim, in involving our students in the choir, was to bring them together with L1 speakers in an environment that would be stimulating but supportive, given the collective, creative goal. We envisaged that interaction in this space would help develop the students’ language proficiency, intercultural competence, and cultural knowledge, while also bringing the psychosocial benefits of choral singing identified by recent research. These benefits include positive emotions, social support and friendship, an antidote to anxiety and stress, and a shared sense of commitment. Evaluation of findings from the project suggest that the choir did foster students’ learning together with wellbeing.
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    Journal Title
    Australian Review of Applied Linguistics
    Volume
    40
    Issue
    2
    DOI
    https://doi.org/10.1075/aral.40.2.04ken
    Copyright Statement
    © 2017 ALAA and Monash University ePress. This is the author-manuscript version of this paper, prior to refereeing. Reproduced in accordance with the copyright policy of the publisher. Please refer to the journal's website for access to the definitive, published version.
    Subject
    LOTE, ESL and TESOL curriculum and pedagogy
    Comparative and cross-cultural education
    Cognitive and computational psychology
    Linguistics
    Publication URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/10072/376119
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