Acknowledgments

Grazie mille! 

The following resource has been a collaborative work since 2021. We appreciate all the feedback and collaboration we have received, first and foremost from the Department of French and Italian at the University of Texas where we have been able to implement these materials with our multi-section courses of Introductory and Intermediate Italian; troubleshooting activities along the way and receiving extremely valuable feedback from the many instructors of these courses.  We wish to thank anyone who has had a hand in creating this project, in the spirit of openness, by sharing their ideas, research, time, and energy with us as we have directed the project.

Paola Bonifazio, Cinzia Russi, Valerie McGuire, Patricia Kyle, Nancy Guilloteau, Douglas Biow (CES), Carl Blyth, COERRL, Ashley Morrison, Colleen Lyon, Heather Walther, Matthew Rabatin (CES), UT Libraries and the OER Fellowship Program, Texas Language Center.

Introductory and Intermediate Italian Instructors at UT Austin: Francesca Berretta, Venessa Fanelli, Magda Collazo Simonet*, Dylan Gilbert, Arianna Avalle*, Claudia Pisano*, Guido Capaccioli, Valerio Rossi, Laurie Giuliani*, Francesca Passaseo*

The asterisk* indicates students that have also worked as Graduate Assistants on the project.

Likewise, we would like to thank all of those who offered their time and personal insights in a series of video and audio interviews that will form the audio/video corpus of listening and comprehension activities, as well as points of departure for various communicative activities. We thank Anna Luongo, Luisa Luongo, Martina Vergani, Laura Motta, Matteo Turati, Andrea Zamparelli, Luca Zamparelli, Martino Lovato, Signora Anna, Silvia Raimondi, Berenice Cocciolillo, and others for their contributions.

Vi ringraziamo di cuore,

Amanda Bush and Silvia Luongo

*Graduate student assistants