Manual de Practica Que Acompana Entrevistas Vol. 2 : An Introduction to Spanish Language and Culture
Language: English
Published by Glencoe/McGraw-Hill, 2000
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- Title
- Manual de Practica Que Acompana Entrevistas Vol. 2 : An Introduction to Spanish Language and Culture
- Author
- Siskin, H. Jay, Davis, Robert L., Ramos, Alicia
- Publisher
- Glencoe/McGraw-Hill
- Publication year
- 2000
- Condition
- Fine
- Binding
- Soft cover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0072311770
- ISBN 13
- 9780072311778
- Item weight
- 0.205 pounds
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By providing the interviews in a variety of media, the program offers a unique opportunity for students to be in direct contact with native speakers and develop their listening comprehension skills (beyond what most 1st year books offer). This should appeal to those instructors who would like a substantial treatment of listening skills in particular.
Entrevistas provides an opportunity for students to work towards meaningful communication. A balanced presentation of grammar and vocabulary in each chapter, coupled with a variety of form-focused and communicative activities, facilitates the development of language and communication skills. Grammar is presented in a more patient manner, ensuring that students have grasped the concepts before moving on.
Integrated cultural coverage is central in this text. Unlike most books on the market, culture is interwoven throughout all sections and is not tacked on as an afterthought.
Each chapter focuses on a particular country of the Spanish-speaking world and the two interviews in each chapter profile native speakers from that particular country. The diversity of the people interviewed provides a rich cultural experience and helps dispel stereotypes to encourage students to think positively and critically about the Spanish-speaking world.
Entrevistas has a very manageable chapter structure and is easy to use! Each chapter is divided into two major parts. The parts are divided into 4 sections: vocabulary, interviews, grammar, and readings.
The readings differ in content in each part: Part one features Documentos (documents) e.g., a questionnaire from a magazine, an advertisement for colleges in Costa Rica. Part two offers Lecturas (readings), more journalistic style readings or short literary selections.
The text and workbook both contain a Pronunciación y ortografía (pronunciation and spelling) feature: the text provides the explanation with a few practice exercises. The workbook/lab manual provides additional listening and writing exercises as well.
A Lenguaje funcional (functional language) feature found throughout the book contains practical language (more vocabulary) to enable students to further develop their communication skills.
The Si te interesa (If you are interested) feature that occurs throughout the chapter provides additional lexical and cultural notes to spark students' interest in the language, e.g., the history of Spanish last names.
Señas de identidad, (signs of identity) provide students with important characteristics that define a country's culture such as what flora and fauna represent in Costa Rica or how significant the autonomous regions of Spain are to that country.
Each chapter ends with A ti te toca, which serves to integrate an extended writing task and bring the chapter to a close. Introduced in the textbook, students will actually complete the writing assignment in the accompanying workbook/lab manual.
Each chapter also includes a unique piece of realia, found in the Se dice que feature. Here students will read a short selection that provides (in English) a more U.S. centric perspective on Hispanic culture. The objective is to encourage students to compare this perspective with the native Hispanic perspective presented elsewhere throughout the chapter.
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