Juntos: Italian for Speakers of English and Spanish

(Paperback, Third Edition)

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Juntos: Italian for Speakers of English and Spanish, Third Edition, is the first comprehensive textbook for the teaching of Italian to students who already possess knowledge of Spanish, whether as L1 Spanish speakers, heritage speakers, or L2 Spanish learners. Suitable for students at the high school and college levels, Juntos is also the first textbook to cultivate interlinguistic awareness through intercomprehension, developing bridges that foster the recognition and use of students' bilingual repertoire as a tool for learning Italian and acquiring other Romance languages.

Features:

• Networked approach that motivates learners to draw on their multilingual language repertoire to acquire reading, writing, speaking, and listening skills in Italian
• Innovative activities that encourage multilingual, multicultural, and metalinguistic thinking and analysis
• Readings and translation activities that promote and develop trans-languaging the practice of drawing from one's multilingual linguistic repertoire as a whole when thinking, speaking, and writing
• Full-colour interior, with illustrations and easy-to-read, colour-coded language recognition system
• Companion website with audio files and supplemental web-based activities that reinforce students' intercultural awareness and literacy

Reviews

"An innovative, highly engaging Italian textbook, that can be used at the high school or university level. . . . With its translingual perspective, new comparative approach, and array of activities, Juntos provides learners of Italian a new tool to hone their linguistic skills, improve their cross-cultural competence, and deepen their understanding of how languages and cultures are interrelated and mutually enriching." Christina A. Mirisis, St. Norbert College, and Simona Wright, The College of New Jersey, in The NECTFL Review

Author Bio

Clorinda Donato is the George L. Graziadio Chair of Italian Studies, Director of the Clorinda Donato Center for Global Romance Languages and Translation Studies, and Professor of French and Italian at California State University, Long Beach.

Cedric Joseph Oliva is Assistant Professor of Modern Languages and Coordinator of the French and Italian programs at Bryant University.

Manuel Romero is Program Coordinator for the George L. Graziadio Center for Italian Studies and Associate Director of the Clorinda Donato Center for Global Romance Languages and Translation Studies at California State University, Long Beach.

Daniela Zappador Guerra is an adjunct lecturer of Italian for the George L. Graziadio Center for Italian Studies at California State University, Long Beach.