The volume, The Art of Teaching Italian, edited by Giulia Guarnieri (Georgetown University Press, 2024) brings together experts from around the world in Italian language pedagogy, applied linguistics, and second-language acquisition to address the field's most pressing concerns and challenges with examples from creative teaching.
Cozzarelli and Feltrin-Morris’s chapter, "Talking Points:Conversation Courses as Models for Multilevel and Multimodal Curricular Innovation", takes its cue from the challenges of keeping Italian programs alive at small- to medium-sized liberal arts institutions and illustrates some effective strategies adopted to redesign and successfully deliver the courses Parliamo! Italian Conversation, and Conversazione e Cultura as “stacked,” i.e. targeted simultaneously at intermediate and advanced students with overlapping content but different expectations and requirements depending on the level. The reinvention of these conversation courses has now become the model for other multi-level courses in language, literature, and culture. These innovative revisions allow our curriculum to serve both Italian majors or minors and students in other programs, and it has fostered a collaborative spirit among students at different levels.