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INTERCAMBIOS: SPANISH FOR GLOBAL COMMUNICATION is the shortest introductory language program available. Highly integrated sections in the program provide many opportunities to learn and practice Spanish vocabulary, sayings, phrases, pronunciation, and language structures in situations relevant to students' lives.
Each chapter of this successful beginning Spanish program weaves together solid language instruction and opportunities for real-life communication with the rich and colorful threads of Spanish-speaking cultures.
PLAZAS: LUGAR DE ENCUENTROS, 5th Edition, is a two- or three-semester introductory Spanish program designed to support and enhance your students' language learning experience. PLAZAS transports your students to a Spanish-speaking country or region for an authentic and personalized cultural language-learning experience. Culture is embedded into every page of PLAZAS, giving your students an appreciation of different cultural practices and perspectives. Thanks to an exclusive partnership with the National Geographic Society, the fifth edition facilitates multi-modal interactions with cultural information in new and revised sections. The program's pedagogy continues to be firmly rooted in the research of the National Standards for Foreign Language Learning, or the Five Cs--Communication, Cultures, Connections, Comparisons, and Communities. The new A explorar! section draws upon all five standards in an engaging manner while previewing the content of the lesson. Important Notice: Media content referenced within the product description or the product text may not be available in the ebook version.
At the heart of every Spanish-speaking community, the plaza is a place for people to come together and connect. Inspired by this metaphor, PLAZAS: LUGAR DE ENCUENTROS draws students into the study of Spanish by creating a meeting place in every classroom. Each chapter of this successful beginning Spanish program unites the latest in language research with the reality of students and classrooms today, providing opportunities for real-life communication using the rich and colorful threads of Spanish-speaking cultures. With each chapter students are transported to a Spanish-speaking country or region for an authentic, personalized cultural language-learning experience. With this approach, culture is embedded into every page of PLAZAS, giving your students an appreciation of different cultural practices and perspectives. This Third Edition features the increased use of visuals throughout to enhance authenticity, aid in comprehension, address the different learning styles of today's students, and ultimately promote acquisition of the language. Important Notice: Media content referenced within the product description or the product text may not be available in the ebook version.
Language beyond the Classroom is an edited volume of essays that offers detailed, how-to guides for developing, implementing, and evaluating service-learning programs for a variety of languages. Contributions here present civic-engagement programs for several languages, including French, German, Russian, and Spanish, with curricula that can be adapted to any language program. The authors of each essay engage with the growing pedagogical emphasis on experiential learning, providing theoretical and practical advice, including syllabi, for language educators. Language beyond the Classroom is a timely exploration of the variety and richness of service-learning in language instruction, and contributes to a 21st-century emphasis on community engagement and cultural contextualization in second-language pedagogy.
AfroLatinas as a subject of scholarship are woefully underrepresented, and this edited volume, AfroLatinas and LatiNegras: Culture, Identity, and Struggle from an Intersectional Perspective, offers an important and timely intervention. The consistent attention to AfroLatinas’ agency across all the chapters is empowering and attentive to the difficult circumstances of asserting that agency, and to the tremendous breadth of what agency can look like. The authors argue for the analytical power of the concept of Intersectionality while considering the hegemonic pressures on AfroLatinidad and the essentializing moves that an intersectional approach enables: evading, overthrowing, and resisting ...
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PLAZAS: LUGAR DE ENCUENTROS, 5th Edition, is a two- or three-semester introductory Spanish program designed to support and enhance your students' language learning experience. PLAZAS transports your students to a Spanish-speaking country or region for an authentic and personalized cultural language-learning experience. Culture is embedded into every page of PLAZAS, giving your students an appreciation of different cultural practices and perspectives. Thanks to an exclusive partnership with the National Geographic Society, the fifth edition facilitates multi-modal interactions with cultural information in new and revised sections. The program's pedagogy continues to be firmly rooted in the research of the National Standards for Foreign Language Learning, or the Five Cs--Communication, Cultures, Connections, Comparisons, and Communities. The new A explorar! section draws upon all five standards in an engaging manner while previewing the content of the lesson. Important Notice: Media content referenced within the product description or the product text may not be available in the ebook version.
"This is a little jewel of a book. Beautifully and elegantly written, it examines the political career of an important figure at the court of Philip II of Spain. It is political biography in the best sense of the term."--Richard Kagan, author of Lucrecia's Dreams