Juntos - Training Videos
Italian for Speakers of English and Spanish
Clorinda Donato, Cedric Joseph Oliva, Manuel Romero, and Daniela Zappador Guerra
Juntos Training Videos are designed for instructors looking for step-by-step instructions for teaching Italian multilingually to Spanish-speaking students. The videos offer best practices (including strategies for instructors who have never studied Spanish or other Romance languages formally) to promote the learning of Italian among multilingual students. Working from the strategy of Intercomprehension, which utilizes similarities among related languages to foster networked learning of both language and culture, the videos help instructors move away from the communicative approach by exploiting rather than suppressing prior linguistic knowledge.
The 26 videos available in the links below are organized around Juntos' five activity types (In Italiano, Intercomprehension, Intergrammar, Interculture, and Languages in Transit) to show:
A) how to use translanguaging, code-switching, and translation in the Italian language class.
B) how to promote students' metalinguistic awareness by helping them notice lexical and structural similarities and differences between Spanish, Italian, and other languages.
C) how to help students transfer their Spanish knowledge to their Italian comprehension and production.
D) how to promote students' metacultural awareness through materials that highlight connections between Latinx, American, and Italian culture.
Presented by multilingual pedagogy expert Dr. Simona Montanari (CSULA), Juntos Training Videos help instructors feel less intimidated by the task of exploiting both their own and their students' multilingual repertoires to promote the learning of Italian among Spanish-speaking students.
Additional Instructor Resources: In addition to the training videos below there is also a PDF-only Instructor’s Guide and Answer Key available to qualified instructors. Please use this form to request the Juntos Instructor's Guide and Answer Key.