RT Journal Article SR Electronic(1) A1 Kennedy, Claire A1 Miceli, Tiziana YR 2017 T1 Lingua e comunità in coro: A community choir as a space for language learning, social interaction, and wellbeing JF Australian Review of Applied Linguistics VO 40 IS 2 SP 140 OP 158 DO https://doi.org/10.1075/aral.40.2.04ken PB John Benjamins SN 0155-0640, AB This article concerns a special learning space populated by Italians and Italian learners: the choir formed in Brisbane as a joint initiative between a community association and the Italian teaching staff at Griffith University. Our aim, in involving our students in the choir, was to bring them together with L1 speakers in an environment that would be stimulating but supportive, given the collective, creative goal. We envisaged that interaction in this space would help develop the students’ language proficiency, intercultural competence, and cultural knowledge, while also bringing the psychosocial benefits of choral singing identified by recent research. These benefits include positive emotions, social support and friendship, an antidote to anxiety and stress, and a shared sense of commitment. Evaluation of findings from the project suggest that the choir did foster students’ learning together with wellbeing., UL https://www.jbe-platform.com/content/journals/10.1075/aral.40.2.04ken