Mastering Italian through Global Debate
Role
Marie Bertola (Author)
Sandra Carletti (Author)
Files
Description
Critical engagement with complex global issues that provides an effective approach to promoting linguistic proficiency and social responsibility
Mastering Italian through Global Debate is a one-semester textbook designed for students with Advanced-level Italian language skills, moving toward Superior and above. Over the course of each chapter, students gain linguistic and rhetorical skills as they prepare to debate on broad, timely topics, including environmental consciousness, immigration, wealth distribution, surveillance and privacy, cultural diversity, and education. Discussion of compelling issues promotes not only linguistic proficiency but social responsibility through critical engagement with complex global challenges.
Each chapter includes topic-specific reading texts and position papers, giving students insight into issues being widely discussed—and debated—in Italy today. In addition to pre- and post-reading activities, students benefit from lexical development exercises, rhetorical methods sections, and listening exercises with audio available on the Press website. Online resources for instructors include pedagogical recommendations and an answer key.
ISBN
9781647123048
Publication Date
3-2023
Publisher
Georgetown University Press
Disciplines
Modern Languages | Modern Literature
Recommended Citation
Bertola, Marie and Carletti, Sandra, "Mastering Italian through Global Debate" (2023). Faculty Book Gallery. 592.
https://scholarcommons.scu.edu/faculty_books/592