Our Centre organizes Courses for Preparation for the CELI Exams of the University for Foreigners of Perugia (esami CELI dell’Università per Stranieri di Perugia). Our Institute is an authorised Exam Centre for CELI (Certificato di Lingua Italiana).

The CELI Certification is one of the only 4 Certifications officially recognized by Law by the Italian Ministry of Education and is based on the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages: Learning Teaching, Assessment of the Council of Europe and the ALTE Framework.

The other Certification officially recognized are CILS exams (University for Foreigners of Siena), Certificato IT exams (University of Tor Vergata – Rome) and PLIDA exams (Società Dante Alighieri).

A legally recognized Certification is valid for:

· enrolling to Italian Universities without having to pass the Proficiency Language Exam (CELI 3 exam);
· teaching Italian in primary and secondary schools in Italy (CELI 5)
· being listed in the European Language Portfolio. The European Language Portfolio was developed and piloted by the Language Policy Division of the Council of Europe, Strasbourg, from 1998 until 2000. It was launched on a pan-European level during the European Year of Languages as a tool to support the development of plurilingualism and pluriculturalism.
· being listed in C.V. for job search as a legally recognized Certification of knowledge of the Italian language.
· being Internationally recognized by International Institutions.
· being easily comparable with other international Language Certification, according to the ALTE Framework.

In fact, there are 5 levels of exams:

The table below illustrates typical general ability at each level and in the skill areas.

The Courses for Preparation to the CELI Exams (Certificazione Lingua Italiana) consist of 4 hours a day STANDARD COURSE in group (in which students will be required to exercises the 4 language abilities – listening, speaking, reading, writing – in order to develop their analytical communicative and meta-linguistic abilities) + 1 hour a day PRIVATE TUTORING especially devoted to the CELI exams with the aim of getting accustomed to the kind of exercises of which the exam is composed and to assess the correct level of exam for each student.

The course includes:

· an assessment test to decide the level of the CELI for which the student will enrol (5 hours in the afternoon of the first day)
· fees for the CELI exam
· 4/6/8 weeks standard course plus private course in preparation for the exam
· exam session on the dates fixed by the University of Perugia to be taken in our school

CELI exam is given in 2 sessions a year (June and November). The dates of the Exam are the one officially published every year by the University for Foreigner of Perugia.
Please contact our office to know the dates of session this year.info@babilonia.it

If you want only to take the CELI exams at our Centre, without a Preparation Course, please fill that you can download from
http://www.cvcl.it/resources/Documenti/scheda_iscrizione_sett06.pdf
and fax it to us at (+39) 0942.23441 or e.mail it to info@babilonia.it

The Fee for the Exam only is € 150,00.

A written confirmation from our office will inform you about the time of your exam. The results of the Exam is assessed directly by the University of Perugia which will inform if the exam has been passed or failed. In case the exam will be partly failed, you will be able to take again the part of the exam failed in any Officially Recognized CELI Exam Centre, by paying an extra fee for the part of the exam you wish to repeat.