INSIEME/MAZZOLA - Softcover

Habekovic, Romana; Mazzola, Claudio

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0070254699 ISBN 13: 9780070254695

Publisher: McGraw-Hill Inc.,US, 1998

Synopsis

This is a content and communication-based interactive text designed for intermediate students of Italian. It combines a streamlined grammar review with readings varying from authentic materials - Italian newspapers and magazines - to short literary pieces and author written texts. The text aims to deal with stimulating and lively problems and issues in Italian society and emphasizes all four skills - listening, speaking, reading and writing. Each chapter begins with a brief, authentic dialogue featuring conversational language that serves as a model for communication and integrated audio and video features offer immediate reinforcement to the learning process that takes place in the classroom. The exercises aim to be creative and natural, each chapter concludes with a writing assignment and there is a selection of readings that deal with different aspects of Italian life and culture.

About this title

About the Author

Romana Habekovic is Lecturer-Coordinator of Italian at the University of Michigan, where she received her Ph.D. in Italian, specializing in twentieth-century Italian literature. She is author of Tommaso Landolfi's Grotesque Images and numerous articles in the areas of Italian literature and film. She is an experienced instructor and has been teaching Italian at the university level since 1972.

Edition details

• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Inc.,US
• Publication date: 1998
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0070254699
• ISBN 13: 9780070254695
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 432