Advanced Placement ( AP ) Italian Language and Culture (also known as AP Italian Language or AP Italian ) is a course offered by the American College Board as part of the Advanced Placement Program . It is intended to give students a thorough background in the Italian language and Italian culture equivalent to a college -level course.
5-683: Due to low numbers of students taking AP Italian, it was temporarily discontinued after the 2008–2009 year. On July 3, 2008, The Italian Language Foundation was established to support Italian language education and the AP Italian program. On November 10, 2010, the College Board announced that the program would be reinstated in the fall of 2011, with the first AP Italian Exam scheduled for May 2012. The AP Italian Language and Culture course focuses on developing students' reading, writing, listening, and speaking skills, all framed in order to reflect
10-835: The American Association of Teachers of Italian (AATI) and the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL), as well as with the Republic of Italy , in order to raise awareness and funds in support of its mission. In addition to a pledge of $ 1,500,000 by the Republic of Italy, the Columbus Citizens Foundation , organizers of New York City's annual Columbus Day Parade, pledged over $ 500,000 in support of reinstatement of
15-668: The United States is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . The Italian Language Foundation The Italian Language Foundation ( ILF ) was established on July 3, 2008, to promote and support Italian language education in the United States and specifically to reinstate the Advanced Placement program (AP) of the College Board for AP Italian Language and Culture . The foundation
20-425: The richness of Italian language and culture. Teachers of the course will interweave the language structure with cultural content. The examination tests students' abilities to successfully use three modes of communication: interpersonal, interpretive, and presentational. The five ultimate goals of the exam are communication, culture, connections, comparisons, and community. This article relating to education in
25-841: Was founded by Margaret I. Cuomo , M.D., currently the ILF's president, and Louis A. Tallarini, its chairman. Cuomo, working with her mother, Matilda Raffa Cuomo, former First Lady of the State of New York, had successfully advocated for the College Board to develop and implement the AP program in Italian Language and Culture, which was launched in 2005, but discontinued after the 2008–2009 academic year due to budgetary reasons. The ILF has worked with major Italian-American non-profit groups and educators interested in Italian language and culture, such as
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