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For Maria Teresa Bonfatti Sabbioni, teaching Italian has always raised another question: How do students actually learn a new tongue? “I became passionate about researching how students learn and practice my native language,” she says. Bonfatti Sabbioni has called the United States home for almost 21 years now, but her story began in Pianello Val Tidone, a small town in northern Italy’s Emilia-Romagna region. She attended a liceo classico, an Italian high school that emphasize ancient Greek, Latin and classical and medieval Italian literature. Before earning her university degree, Bonfatti Sabbioni worked as a teaching assistant for children from Albania, …