Janice M. Aski,
The Ohio State University Diane Musumeci,
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
ISBN: 007338626x Copyright year: 2014
About the Authors
Janice M. Aski
Janice Aski is Associate 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 morphosyntactic change.
Diane Musumeci
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 Associate Dean for Humanities and Interdisciplinary Units in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences.
Her teaching, research, and publications focus on the acquisition of Italian as a second language, content-based instruction, and the history of second language teaching. In addition to Avanti!, she is the author of Il carciofo: Strategie di lettura e proposte di attività (McGraw-Hill, 1990) and Breaking Tradition: An Exploration of the Historical Relationship Between Theory and Practice in Second Language Teaching (McGraw-Hill, 1997).
2014