Marie Bertola Co-authors New Book
Marie Bertola co-authored Mastering Italian through Global Debate published by Georgetown University Press.
This textbook is designed for students with advanced-level Italian language skills, Mastering Italian through Global Debate aims to promote linguistic proficiency and social responsibility through critical engagement with complex global issues, such as environmental consciousness, immigration, wealth distribution, surveillance and privacy, cultural diversity, and education. Its pedagogical approach stems from the idea that the debate is more than just a formal and codified form of discussion, and it can be adopted as a pedagogical framework in the L2 classroom as it creates a civil and engaged space for linguistic interaction across polarized views and shapes openness towards others while helping to recognize our common humanity beyond the issues being discussed.