| Learnsmart Introductory Italian 720 Day Access Card for Avanti Contributor(s): Aski, Janice (Author), Musumeci, Diane (Author) |
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ISBN: 0077769929 ISBN-13: 9780077769925 Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education OUR PRICE: $46.31 Product Type: Other Published: January 2013 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Foreign Language Study | Italian |
| Physical Information: 0.5" H x 5.9" W x 8.9" (0.65 lbs) |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: LearnSmart This adaptive diagnostic tool helps students take charge of their own learning. McGraw-Hill LearnSmart is an intelligent learning system that uses a series of adaptive questions to pinpoint each student's knowledge gaps. LearnSmart then provides an optimal learning path for each student, so that they spend less time in areas they already know and more time in areas they don't. The result is LearnSmart's adaptive learning path helps students retain more knowledge, learn faster, and study more efficiently. |
Contributor Bio(s): Aski, Janice: - Janice M. Aski is assistant professor and director of the Italian language program at The Ohio State University. She specializes in foreign language pedagogy and historical Italian/Romance linguistics. Her research in foreign language pedagogy explores a variety of topics, such as testing, teaching reading at the elementary level, and how first-year Italian textbooks and grammar practice activities reflect the most current research in second language acquisition. Her publications in historical Italian/Romance linguistics focus on the social, pragmatic and cognitive aspects of phonological and morphological change.Musumeci, Diane: - Diane Musumeci is Associate Professor of Italian and SLATE (Second Language Acquisition and Teacher Education) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where she is Head of the Department of Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese. She received her Ph.D. in Italian linguistics with a Certificate of Advanced Study in SLATE from the University of Illinois at Urban-Champaign in 1989. For sixteen years she was the Director of the Italian language program. She conducts research in content-based instruction and classroom language acquisition. She teaches a wide range of courses from Italian language and linguistics to doctoral seminars on the history of second language teaching. She has published numerous articles and chapters in books and is the author of Il carciofo: Strategie di lettura e proposte d'attivita (McGraw-Hill, 1990) and Breaking Tradition: An Exploration of the Historical Relationship Between Theory and Practice in Second Language Teaching (McGraw-Hill, 1997). |