Rettifica: in 1985 it was called ATI, and it was better.
moj
Marina Orsini-Jones wrote:
> Dear all,
> I was trying to keep out of the above issues even if I agree with Mr
> Jameson that the lack of an Italian ALL committee is a sad affair.
>
> As someone who has turned down the offer of being the Editor of
> Tuttitalia, I would just like other interested parties know the
> following:
>
> 1. Due to lack of funding, the ALL office in Rugby is unable to provide
> the support it used to provide to either committee members or editors of
> Tuttitalia (I believe Loredana can confirm this);
> 2. I set up, jointly with a very committed committee, two years of ALL
> activities to promote Italian language and culture well in advance of
> the dates in which such activities would take place, only to find out
> that the publicity had not gone out about such activities because of
> lack of staff/money/organisation at the ALL main office;
> 3. the relationship between the Italian Committee and the ALL main
> office became slightly strained (eufemismo) because of the above points.
>
> I have been a member of ALL since 1985. I have a research interest in
> Teaching Italian as a Foreign Language and I have always been strongly
> committed to the well-being of Italian Language Teaching and Learning in
> the UK, however, since the departure of Bob Powell and of Christine
> Wilding (both Italianists) from the ALL executive, I witnessed a decline
> in the interest for Italian amongst the ALL 'upper-echelon'.
>
> I used to have the will and the way, and people who know me know I am
> not easily discouraged. But there is a limit. From January next year I
> shall not renew my subscription to ALL and I personally do not think the
> Association represents the interests of Italianists any longer.
>
> Just a word of warning....
>
> Ciao,
> Marina Orsini-Jones
> Subject Leader for Italian/Teaching and Learning Fellow
> School of International Studies and Law
> Coventry University
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