Atando cabos: Curso intermedio de español (Spanish Edition) - Softcover

Marta Rosso-O'Laughlin; María González-Aguilar

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0137911130 ISBN 13: 9780137911134

Publisher: Pearson College Div, 2000

Synopsis

Emphasizing interaction and communication, this book teaches intermediate Spanish speakers to express, interpret, and negotiate meaning in context with fluency and accuracy ? and within Hispanic cultures. It focuses on the development of basic skills?listening, speaking, reading?and provides all the sociolinguistic tools that allow readers to analyze, compare, and contrast the Hispanic world along with their own. Each chapter centers on a specific topic of high interest such as: the environment and ecological issues in the developing countries of Latin America; the Hispanic presence in the U.S; the question of identity; Mexican muralists and Frida Kahlo; new technological advances; Latin American women; the entertainment world; and more. For Spanish speakers who want to increase both their proficiency of the language, and their knowledge, respect, and love of the culture.

About this title

From the Back Cover

Recognizing that students enter second-year Spanish at disparate levels, the authors of Atando cabos focus on “tying up loose ends” and bringing students to a common proficiency level. Though Atando cabos has been carefully revised based on feedback from adopters of the previous editions, the third edition continues to emphasize interaction and communication in a culturally rich environment to increase.

 

Student resources

• Audio CDs to Accompany the Text 0-13159786-8
• Student Activities Manual 0-13-175600-1
• Audio to Accompany the Student Activities Manual 0-13-205064-1
• Answer Key to Accompany the Student Activities Manual 0-13-158836-2
• Video on DVD 0-13-233256-6

 

Instructor resources

• Annotated Instructor’s Edition 0-13-157672-0
• Image Resource CD 0-13-612803-3
• Instructor’s Resource Manual with Testing Program 0-13-158942-3
• Audio to Accompany the Testing Program 0-13-233252-3
• Video on VHS 0-13-158029-9

About the Author

María González-Aguilar was born in Barcelona, grew up and graduated from the Profesorado in Argentina, and completed her postgraduate education at Middlebury College. She taught for ten years in different colleges and universities, including, MIT, the University of Oregon, Tufts University and Middlebury College. María started publishing with PH in 1983 with the first edition of Arriba and Mosaicos. Afterward, while working at MIT she created “Paradoja”, an interactive CD-ROM that deals with the situation of women in Latin America.

 

María is a professor of the Instituto Cervantes in Paris, where she is responsible for general language courses and for the coordination and teaching of pedagogical workshops for Spanish professors. María also teaches at two of the most prestigious French “Grands écoles”: “Ecole Polytechnique” and “Haute école de Commerce”. She is responsible for the development and teaching of special courses, such as “Sabor Latino” Latin-American foods through music, literature, movies and art or “Actualidad hispana”, a practical course that brings students in contact with Latin-American reality through the analysis of media. María’s passions are traveling, reading, teaching and cooking. She lives in the suburbs of Paris with her husband and son, in a house full of “sabor latino”.

 

 

Marta Rosso-O’Laughlin, M.A., a native speaker from Argentina, holds a degree in applied linguistics form the University of Reading in England.  She studied second-language methodology at the University of London and holds degrees from the National University of Córdoba in Argentina. 

 

For the last nineteen years, Marta has been the chief coordinator of the Spanish-language program at Tufts University in Medford, Massachusetts, where she also teaches all levels of Spanish-language courses including linguistics.  She is the author of many books for the teaching of Spanish for high school and college and co-author of the second edition of Atando cabos.

 

Professor Rosso-O’Laughlin conducts teacher-training workshops and courses at several of the universities in the Boston area, at national conferences, and at teaching institutions abroad. She brings a wealth of experience and a rich cultural background to her teaching.

Edition details

• Publisher: Pearson College Div
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0137911130
• ISBN 13: 9780137911134
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: Spanish
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 496