
Percorsi
L'Italia attraverso la lingua e la cultura
Pearson (Publisher)
2nd Edition
Published on 27. January 2011
Book
Hardback
576 pages
978-0-205-78472-1 (ISBN)
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Description
The first edition of Percorsi quickly became one of the best-selling elementary Italian texts. The new second edition features a new design, more focus on skills-development, updated cultural information
Percorsi is an introductory program that promotes the acquisition of Italian language and culture through the integration of the "5 Cs" principles of the National Standards for Foreign Language Education. Percorsi is designed to provide beginning learners with a variety of tools to develop their communicative competence in the four major language skills-listening, speaking, reading, and writing-as they acquire familiarity with Italian culture. All of the features in Percorsi have been carefully thought out to support the two key aspects of the language acquisition process: language comprehension and language production.
From the start, carefully structured communicative activities based on authentic materials and texts encourage students to use Italian in everyday situations. Generous use of authentic content also offers students a chance to develop reading skills while gaining cultural awareness and understanding of Italian communities and traditions throughout the world. In addition, each chapter explicitly promotes cultural exploration through illustrated presentations that are followed by activities facilitating comprehension and highlighting cultural comparisons. Students are encouraged to analyze and compare extremely varied aspects of Italian culture while making connections to their own experiences.
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Percorsi is an introductory program that promotes the acquisition of Italian language and culture through the integration of the "5 Cs" principles of the National Standards for Foreign Language Education. Percorsi is designed to provide beginning learners with a variety of tools to develop their communicative competence in the four major language skills-listening, speaking, reading, and writing-as they acquire familiarity with Italian culture. All of the features in Percorsi have been carefully thought out to support the two key aspects of the language acquisition process: language comprehension and language production.
From the start, carefully structured communicative activities based on authentic materials and texts encourage students to use Italian in everyday situations. Generous use of authentic content also offers students a chance to develop reading skills while gaining cultural awareness and understanding of Italian communities and traditions throughout the world. In addition, each chapter explicitly promotes cultural exploration through illustrated presentations that are followed by activities facilitating comprehension and highlighting cultural comparisons. Students are encouraged to analyze and compare extremely varied aspects of Italian culture while making connections to their own experiences.
Note: this is the standalone book, if you want the Book/Access Code order the ISBN below:
0205189393 / 9780205189397 Percorsi: L'Italia attraverso la lingua e la cultura with MyItalianLab and Pearson eText *
Package consists of:
0205032915 / 9780205032914 MyItalianLab with Pearson eText -- Access Card -- for Percorsi: L'Italia attraverso la lingua e la cultura (24-month access)
0205784720 / 9780205784721 Percorsi: L'Italia attraverso la lingua e la cultura
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Edition
2nd edition
Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Publishing group
Pearson Education (US)
Target group
Adult education
Dimensions
Height: 282 mm
Width: 221 mm
Thickness: 26 mm
Weight
1340 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-205-78472-1 (9780205784721)
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Francesca Italiano | Irene Marchegiani
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L'Italia attraverso la lingua e la cultura (Multi Semester)
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07/2018
3rd Edition
Pearson
€169.35
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Francesca Italiano | Irene Marchegiani
Pearson Single Solution for Percorsi
L'Italia attraverso la lingua e la cultura (Single Semester)
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07/2018
3rd Edition
Pearson
€111.41
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Francesca Italiano | Irene Marchegiani
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MyLab Italian with Pearson eText -- Standalone Access Card -- for Percorsi
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12/2015
3rd Edition
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Book
11/2007
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€91.60
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Persons
Francesca Italiano is the Director of the Italian Language Program at the University of Southern California. She has a Ph.D. from University of California, Los Angeles in Nineteenth Century Italian Literature and an M.S. from USC in Applied Linguistics. She is the coauthor of the literary reader Incontri Attuali and the author of the second edition of the intermediate Italian textbook, Crescendo! She is currently working with the USC Language Center in the development of the VIE (Virtual Italian Experience) video game, which is based on Percorsi. The VIE project is being funded by a two-year NEH grant.
Irene Marchegiani, Professor Emerita of Italian Language and Literature at California State University - Long Beach, is currently Coordinator of Student Teaching for European Languages at the State University of New York - Stony Brook, where she teaches second language acquisition methodology courses as well as courses in European Studies. At CSULB, from 1985 to 1999 she was the Director of the Italian program. Professor Marchegiani has taught Italian language, literature, and culture at all levels. She has written articles on Giacomo Leopardi and on contemporary Italian poetry, with a particular emphasis on women writers. She edited the volume of poetry Landof Time (Chelsea Edition, 2006) by Luigi Fontanella and co-edited The Poetics of Place: Florence imagined (Olschki, 2001). She has conducted research and published articles on Italian epic poems about Cristopher Columbus and on second language acquisition. In collaboration with Professor Charles Jernigan, she has translated Torquato Tasso's Aminta (Italica Press, 2000), which was awarded the prestigious "Diego Valeri" Monselice prize in 2002. She has co-translated other volumes of poetry including The Star of Free Will by Maria Luisa Spaziani. Professor Marchegiani has published several of her poems in various poetry journals, in Italy and in the U.S.A., and in 2004 she published La vita in cerchio, her first collection of poetry. She is member of the editorial board of the literary journals Gradiva and Journal of Italian Translation. With Francesca Italiano, she published the literary reader Incontri Attuali and the intermediate Italian textbook Crescendo.
Irene Marchegiani, Professor Emerita of Italian Language and Literature at California State University - Long Beach, is currently Coordinator of Student Teaching for European Languages at the State University of New York - Stony Brook, where she teaches second language acquisition methodology courses as well as courses in European Studies. At CSULB, from 1985 to 1999 she was the Director of the Italian program. Professor Marchegiani has taught Italian language, literature, and culture at all levels. She has written articles on Giacomo Leopardi and on contemporary Italian poetry, with a particular emphasis on women writers. She edited the volume of poetry Landof Time (Chelsea Edition, 2006) by Luigi Fontanella and co-edited The Poetics of Place: Florence imagined (Olschki, 2001). She has conducted research and published articles on Italian epic poems about Cristopher Columbus and on second language acquisition. In collaboration with Professor Charles Jernigan, she has translated Torquato Tasso's Aminta (Italica Press, 2000), which was awarded the prestigious "Diego Valeri" Monselice prize in 2002. She has co-translated other volumes of poetry including The Star of Free Will by Maria Luisa Spaziani. Professor Marchegiani has published several of her poems in various poetry journals, in Italy and in the U.S.A., and in 2004 she published La vita in cerchio, her first collection of poetry. She is member of the editorial board of the literary journals Gradiva and Journal of Italian Translation. With Francesca Italiano, she published the literary reader Incontri Attuali and the intermediate Italian textbook Crescendo.
Content
Table of Contents
PRELIMINARE Tanto per cominciare
1. Come va, ragazzi ?
2. Che bella la vita da studente !
3. Mi riconosci?
4. Giorno per giorno
5. Ecco la mia famiglia
6. Casa mia, casa mia...
7. Che hai fatto di bello?
8. Ti ricordi quando?
9. Buon divertimento!
10. Che ricordo splendido!
11. E dopo, che farai?
12. La vita che vorrei
13. Dove andiamo in vacanza?
14. Quante cose da fare in citta!
15. Alla salute!
16. Gli italiani di oggi
PRELIMINARE Tanto per cominciare
1. Come va, ragazzi ?
2. Che bella la vita da studente !
3. Mi riconosci?
4. Giorno per giorno
5. Ecco la mia famiglia
6. Casa mia, casa mia...
7. Che hai fatto di bello?
8. Ti ricordi quando?
9. Buon divertimento!
10. Che ricordo splendido!
11. E dopo, che farai?
12. La vita che vorrei
13. Dove andiamo in vacanza?
14. Quante cose da fare in citta!
15. Alla salute!
16. Gli italiani di oggi