Composicion: Proceso y sintesis - Softcover

Guadalupe Valdes

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0070668167 ISBN 13: 9780070668164

Publisher: McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social, 1998

Synopsis

This widely used text is designed for use in third year composition courses. Composicion is intended to develop students' abilities in the kinds of writing they are asked to do as Spanish majors and minors. This text helps students understand the roles of the sender and the receiver of the message in the writing process, and also focuses on developing the necessary tools and resources for being a good writer. The presentation of material in Composicion is entirely in Spanish.

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About the Author

Guadalupe Valdes is a Professor of Spanish and Portuguese and Professor of Education at Stanford University. She works in the areas of Socio-linguistics and Applied Linguistics, and has published numerous articles in one of her concentrations, the teaching of Spanish to both monolingual speakers of English and bilingual Hispanics. Professor Valdes is the author of four Spanish-language textbooks, two of which focus on teaching Spanish to bilingual Hispanics. She served as a member of the editorial boards of several journals, including Modern Language Journal, Bilingual Review, and Hispanic Journal of the Behavioral Sciences. Trisha Dvorak is Senior Program Manager with Educational Outreach at the University of Washington. She has coordinated elementary language programs in Spanish and taught courses in Spanish language and foreign language methodology. Professor Dvorak received her Ph.D. in Applied Linguistics from the University of Texas at Austin. She has published books and articles on aspects of foreign language learning and teaching and is co-author of Composicion: Proceso y sintesis, a writing text for third year college students. Thomasina Pagan Hannum is a retired Spanish teacher. She currently works as a Consultant on Language Testing with the Bilingual Unit of the State Education Department of New Mexico, and frequently presents workshops on writing in the language classroom. She received her MATS from the University of New Mexico and has completed considerable additional study in spanish Linguistics. She is co-author of Como se escribe, a text for Spanish-English bilingual students at the secondary level, a contributing writer for Paso a paso, a Spanish-language series for secondary students, and co-author of Un paso mas, a workbook for bilingual students to accompany Paso a paso.

Language Notes

Text: Spanish, English

Edition details

• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0070668167
• ISBN 13: 9780070668164
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 3
• Number of pages: 304