INSIEME/MAZZOLA - Softcover

Habekovic, Romana; Mazzola, Claudio

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0070254699 ISBN 13: 9780070254695

Publisher: McGraw-Hill Inc.,US, 2008

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

From the Publisher:

A fifth of the readings have been changed or modified to make them more accessible to intermediate students.
Chapters now begin with a brief authentic dialogue featuring conversational language that serves as a model for communication.
The instructor's manual now contains an authentic video feature, with pre-and post viewing activities.
The chapter structure has been simplified, with all grammar topics now together in one Strutture section.
Al corriente (realia-based feature) has been moved to the workbook, where the realia pieces can be reproduced in a larger, more legible format.
Integrated audio and video features offer an immediate reinforcement to the learning process that takes place in the classroom.
Grammar exercises are natural and creative, not drill-and-kill.
Each chapter concludes with a writing assignment based on the chapter's theme.
A rich selection of readings deals with different aspects of Italian life and culture. Readings range from author written, to authentic articles culled from Italian newspapers and magazines, to literary texts.

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.

About this edition

• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Inc.,US
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0070254699
• ISBN 13: 9780070254695
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 432