Punto y aparte: Spanish in Review/Moving Toward Fluency - Softcover

Foerster, Sharon W.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0073269565 ISBN 13: 9780073269566

Publisher: McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages, 2005

Synopsis

This best-selling intermediate level Spanish textbook was widely embraced by the market when it first published in 1999, ushering in a new approach to instruction. The unique methodology, which emphasizes seven communicative goals (metas comunicativas) has been praised by professors and students as an original way to review and refine language development at the intermediate level.

About this title

About the Author:

Sharon Wilson Foerster retired from the University of Texas at Austin in 2001, where she had been the Coordinator of Lower-Division Courses in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese, directing the first- and second-year Spanish language program and training graduate assistant instructors. She continues to teach in the Spanish Summer Language School at Middlebury College in Vermont. She received her Ph.D. in Intercultural Communications from the University of Texas in 1981. Before joining the faculty at the University of Texas, she was Director of the Center for Cross-Cultural Study in Seville, Spain, for four years. She continues her involvement in study abroad through her work as Director of the Spanish Teaching Institute and as Academic Advisor for Academic Programs International. She is the co-author of the following McGraw-Hill titles: Pasaporte: Spanish for High Beginners (2009); Supplementary Materials to accompany Puntos de partida, Eighth Edition (2009); Metas: Spanish in Review, Moving Toward Fluency (2008); Punto y aparte: Spanish in Review, Moving Toward Fluency, Third Edition (2007); Lecturas literarias: Moving Toward Linguistic and Cultural Fluency Through Literature (2007); Metas comunicativas para maestros (1999); and Metas comunicativas para negocios (1998).

About this edition

• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0073269565
• ISBN 13: 9780073269566
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2