Centro Machiavelli

Our students come from all over the world and they have very different motivations, different previous scholastic experience, different ways of learning and even different school types. This situation requires continuous updating as well as mental flexibility and creativity.
The teacher has multiple roles in the class all of which are indispensable: facilitator, entertainer, linguistic
consultant, and disseminator of culture. This entails an experimental approach to the profession and constant attention to group dynamics. The texts and multimedia teaching materials that we use are the result of on-going research and development to adapt them to the real needs of the students.
Apart from grammar and syntax, there are four skills - reading, writing, listening and speaking - which we consider necessary to be developed right from the first level, in order to enable comprehension and expression in authentic communicative situations. To this end, situations are simulated in the classroom using authentic teaching material. Structures and vocabulary are adapted to the lower levels and become progressively more complex until, at advanced levels, different types of text are used to encourage the recognition and reproduction of different language styles.