Hoy dia: Spanish for Real Life. Volume 1 (Annotated Instructor's Edition) — 2011. This item is unavailable.Hoy dia: Spanish for Real Life. Volume 1 (Annotated Instructor's Edition) — 2011

Hoy día Spanish for Real Life focuses on the Spanish needed for everyday communication and teaches students to function in a variety of settings and focus on what is needed to know now to use Spanish effectively in real life   KEY TOPICS: Vocabulary and expressions are presented in real-life settings. The modular format makes it easy for students to organize their learning and for instructors to plan their classes. Clearly-organized review tools and meaningfully-sequenced activities support students as they learn Spanish.   MARKET: For beginning learners of Spanish

John McMinn teaches both Spanish and French at Austin Community College in Austin, Texas. He graduated with his Masters degree in Romance Linguistics from the University of Texas at Austin in 1981, and while pursuing doctoral studies there, he began working as an editor of Spanish and French textbooks at Holt, Rinehart and Winston and Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich publishers. He has worked as an editor on numerous texts, and in addition to Trato hecho and Hoy día:  Spanish for Real Life, he is the co-author of the secondary-level Spanish program Exprésate, as well as the college-level French texts Horizons and Qu'est-ce qu'on dit?   Nuria Alonso García is an Associate Professor of Spanish at Providence College Department of Foreign Language Studies, where she teaches courses in Spanish language and culture, linguistics, language methodology and global studies. She graduated from the Universidad de Oviedo, Spain, with a degree in Spanish Philology, and holds a Ph.D. in Applied Linguistics from the Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia in Madrid. She has published various articles in sociolinguistics, and authored a number of pedagogical materials for foreign languages. She is a co-author of Trato hecho, and Hoy día: Spanish for Real Life published by Pearson-Prentice Hall.