Asi Es - Hardcover

Nancy Levy-Konesky; Karen Daggett; Karen Daggett

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0030259282 ISBN 13: 9780030259289

Publisher: Harcourt, 1999

Synopsis

The Asi es beginning Spanish program, one of the most successful in the nation, provides a solid grammatical foundation, strong skill-building tools for communicative success, and broad exposure to Hispanic culture. The cultural exposure that begins in the Asi es textbook is enhanced in the exceptional text-specific video program and text-specific CD-ROM. Throughout the textbook, video, and CD-ROM, as well as on the Asi es World Wide Web Site, students are exposed to the diversity and richness of the Hispanic world, its language, and its culture.

Each of the six units of Asi es corresponds to an area of the Spanish-speaking world, including Hispanics in the U.S. Culture is not presented as an "add on, " but is thoroughly "woven" in dialogues, exercises, activities, and readings. The cultural Gaceta segments, many of which have corresponding sections on the video, expose students to the diversity of the Hispanic world. Included in these segments are geography, customs, traditions, celebrations, music, and accents and speech patterns, as well as learning about many well-known Hispanic celebrities and how they share their culture.

New program components with this edition, such as an exhilarating new text-specific video, text-specific CD-ROM, text-specific World Wide Web Site, and the new Asi es Teaching Assistant/Adjunct Instructor Tool Box which includes 75 four-color text-specific Overhead Transparencies gives this popular program an even greater flexibility.

About this title

About the Author:

Nancy Levy-Konesky received her Ph.D. from Boston College where she studied with the Graduate School of Education as well as the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures. She was the 1997 recipient of the John Schmidt award for her research on instructional video design, and she has extensive experience writing, producing, and directing foreign language and culture video programs on both the high school and college level, as well as for broadcast television. Professor Levy-Konesky has taught Spanish and Hispanic culture and literature at the university level for more than 20 years, and also has experience teaching and writing curriculum and materials for high school students. She developed and teaches foreign language methodology courses on the graduate level, and continues to lead teacher-training workshops. She currently teaches Foreign Language Methods with the Teacher Preparation Program at Yale University, and also teach Spanish and Hispanic culture and literature with the Romance Language Department at Tufts University. Her research and experience in foreign language methodology and video production combine to make Professor Levy-Konesky an authority on its use in first- and second- year Spanish language classrooms.

Karen Daggett studied linguistics in the Graduate School of the Autonomous University of Guadalajara, Mexico, as well as Hispanic literature at Boston College. She attended a two-year seminar in Foreign Language Methodology at Harvard University, where she received the Highest Achievement in Teaching Award. Karen has taught Spanish language and Hispanic culture and literature at Boston College for more than twenty years, and has also been involved in middle school and high school foreign language instruction. In addition to Karen's varied classroom experience, she has coordinated and taught elementary, intermediate and third year Spanish and has lead teacher-training workshops around the country. Karen also shares her expertise at many state and national conferences, most recently at the A.C.T.F.L. and A.A.T.S.P. National Conferences. Her most recent area of research and study is in the field of developing foreign language writing and reading skills.

Language Notes:

Text: English, Spanish

About this edition

• Publisher: Harcourt
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0030259282
• ISBN 13: 9780030259289
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 3
• Number of pages: 525