ELEMENTARY ITALIAN I

This course is designed to provide maximum opportunities for students to develop functional listening, speaking, reading and writing skills in the beginning Italian. The goal of the course is the acquisition of a useful, communicative command of language at the Novice-Low to Novice-Mid level on the national scale, as established by the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL) and the Educational Testing Service (ETS).This goal will be realized through maximum exposure to authentic target language input (oral and visual), active oral and written practice of real- life language tasks or functions (conversing with an exchange student, completing forms, etc.) and the exploration of cultural subtleties conveyed by language, thought and customs. This course is intended for students with little or no fluency in Italian.