Fusion: Comunicacion y cultura

Zayas-Bazan, Eduardo; Bacon, Susan M.; Garca, Dulce M.

ISBN 10: 0133777669 ISBN 13: 9780133777666

Publisher: Pearson College Div, 2014

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Supported by exciting, authentic video, Fusion is a one-semester intermediate Spanish program that connects the study of intermediate Spanish to students' real lives, connecting language to culture, and making the transition from first-year Spanish to a true intermediate program. Intermediate programs typically repeat elementary Spanish grammar sequencing from the present tense forward. Consequently, students progress to advanced levels without a thorough understanding of the indicative and subjunctive moods and without a concrete grounding in the forms and usage of certain tenses, especially the preterit and the imperfect. Fusion reviews the preterit and the imperfect in first chapter, which equips students to shift back and forth naturally between the present and the past as they speak, read, and write throughout the course. It goes on to review the present subjunctive early in the course and encourages students to use the subjunctive mood alongside the indicative throughout the program, refining their understanding of both the concept and usage of mood, essential to Spanish. 0133792285 / 9780133792287 Fusion: Communicacion y Cultura plus MySpanish Lab with Pearson eText---Access card Package (one semester access) Package consists of: 0133777545 / 9780133777543 Fusion: Comunicacion y cultura 0133778169 / 9780133778168 MySpanishLab with Pearson eText -- Access Card -- for Fusion (one semester access)

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About the Author

Eduardo Zayas-Bazan is a native of Camaguey, Cuba. He holds an M.S. in foreign languages from Kansas State Teachers College, Emporia, KS, and a Doctor en Derecho degree from Universidad Nacional Jose Marti, Havana, Cuba. He is a Professor Emeritus in Foreign Languages from East Tennessee State University, where he was chair of the Foreign Language Department from 1973 to 1993. Over the course of his distinguished career, Zayas-Bazan has received numerous awards in recognition of his professional achievements and has held noteworthy positions within many organizations dedicated to teaching Spanish. In addition to writing numerous articles in regional and national journals, he is the co-author, co-editor, and translator of seventeen books, including Arriba!, a beginning Spanish program published by Pearson. Susan M. Bacon earned her Ph. D. in Foreign Language Education and Spanish Applied Linguistics from The Ohio State University. She is now Professor Emerita at the University of Cincinnati where she was Professor of Spanish and Director, UC International Programs. She has been Project Director of a four-year grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities, and a Fulbright-Robles Scholar in Mexico. She has published extensively in the area of foreign language acquisition and methodology, particularly in the use of authentic listening and reading text. In addition to Fusion, she has co-authored Arriba!, Leyendas del mundo hispano, and Conexiones. Dulce Garcia, PhD Georgetown University, is an Assistant Professor of Foreign Languages and Literatures at the City College of New York, CUNY, where she specializes in late Medieval and Golden Age Spanish Literature, Spanish linguistics, critical theory, and foreign language pedagogy. She is the director of the CCNY-Spain Summer Program, and received CCNY's "Outstanding Teaching Award" for 2007.

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