As the fastest growing introductory Italian title, Avanti Beginning
Italian continues to evolve to meet the changing needs of
instructors and students. Professors are offering more hybrid and
online courses, technology is providing functionality we could not
envision just a few years ago, and the types of students we teach
are ever-changing. Thus, in planning the third-edition revision, it
was critical to retain the best parts of our program while
responding to the changes around us.
The title Avanti conveys the forward-thinking approach of this
program, which is designed to guide experienced and inexperienced
instructors in creating a truly communicative, interactive
environment for their students. In preparation for this edition, we
employed a wide array of market research tools to identify a number
of areas for digital innovation. As a direct result of our
research, this new edition offers McGraw-Hill's Connect(TM) and
LearnSmart(TM) with their game-changing, adaptive, and digital
learning resources. These powerful, digital tools, now an integral
part of the third edition, complement and support the goals of the
Avanti program and address the needs of the evolving Introductory
Italian course.
How does Avanti with Connect and LearnSmart support the needs of
Italian instructors and students?
Communicative Competence: One of the major challenges of any
introductory language course is to give students ample exposure to
the language and sufficient opportunity for speaking practice to
inspire them to communicate with confidence. Avanti satisfies
students' desire to communicate in everyday situations right from
the start. In Connect Italian students have access 24/7 to the
digitally enhanced eBook, the interactive textbook activities, the
online Workbook / Laboratory Manual activities, all of the
accompanying audio and video resources, and the voice tools that
allow for out-of-class practice of important oral skills.
Review and Recycling: Since introducing and practicing each
grammatical structure once in a year-long course is simply not
enough to promote acquisition, recycling vocabulary and structures
for maximum exposure is a key feature of Avanti Every fourth
chapter provides practice of four previously taught grammar points,
which are then followed by a related topic. With the addition of
LearnSmart, a super-adaptive learning system, students can practice
key vocabulary and grammatical structures outside of class. This
powerful system helps students identify their weaknesses and
provides them with an individualized study program based on their
performance.
Manageable Scope and Sequence: Avanti responds to instructors'
concerns that most programs attempt to cover too much material in
the first year. We have designed an elementary course that reflects
reasonable expectations for the amount of material that most
beginning learners can acquire in one year of classroom
instruction, while providing the necessary practice students need
to acquire these structures. The Connect Italian platform includes
an assignment builder feature that allows instructors further
flexibility to fully customize the course content to meet the needs
of their particular students. Instructors may choose to assign all
(or a subset) of the textbook and workbook activities as well as
some or all of the grammar points presented in Per saperne di piu
based on their course goals.
Cultural Competence: Avanti 's meaningful and extensive
exploration of Italy's rich and unique culture is fully supported
in Connect Italian through audio and video resources and
interactive activities. Throughout each chapter, brief readings and
interactive, culture activities promote an understanding of
products, practices and perspectives. All chapters end with
reading, listening, and writing activities that explore cultural
topics in depth. Each chapter also includes an analysis of film
clips where students can see Italian society and culture in action.
Student-centered Classroom: A significant goal of Avanti is to
engage the learner inside and outside of the classroom and promote
students' personal sense of responsibility to interact with the
material and maximize learning. To this end, the inductive
presentations of vocabulary and grammar, which encourage language
processing and cognitive engagement, can be successfully completed
in the classroom or by using the interactive versions in Connect.
Administrative Challenges: The Avanti program provides the online
tools to reduce the amount of time and energy that instructors have
to invest in administering their course. The Assignment Builder
allows instructors to easily sort activities according to a variety
of parameters that are important to them, including by learning
objective, language skill, topic, amount of time on task, or by
activity type (multiple-choice, fill-in-the-blank, and so on). With
Reports instructors can pull full administrative reports about
students' performance, and coordinators will be able to integrate
these reports across all sections to see the performance of the
entire program. The at-risk student report also allows instructors
to quickly identify at-risk students, based on numerous criteria,
who may need additional help to successfully complete the course.
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