De una vez!: A College Course for Spanish Speakers (World Languages) - Softcover

Samaniego, Fabián; Rodriguez, Francisco; Rojas, Nelson

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0618348948 ISBN 13: 9780618348947

Publisher: Cengage Learning, 2007

Synopsis

De una vez! reaches out to heritage speakers who have had very little or no training in reading or writing in Spanish. It eases them into reading, writing, and grammar using a rich cultural approach designed to make these students fully aware of their own cultural background as well as of the diversity that exists across Latin cultures. After first gaining a strong sense of self, students are then exposed to a variety of career role models within Hispanic communities. They are encouraged to be active in their own communities, to interview Hispanic professionals, and to explore different Spanish-speaking countries and regions using the Internet.

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About the Author

Fabián A. Samaniego earned his B.A. degree at New Mexico State University and completed his graduate work at the University of Iowa. He taught four years at Utah State University before going to the University of California at Davis, where he served as coordinator of the first-year Spanish program and supervisor of teaching assistants for 24 years. He also served as assistant director of several Foreign Language Competency projects for the Los Angeles and San Francisco Unified School Districts, and for the Santa Clara and Sacramento County Offices of Education. In addition, he served on the steering committee of the California Foreign Language Teacher Preparation Project and on the California Foreign Language Project Policy Board. He is frequently asked to conduct in-service workshops for schools and universities across the country. Samaniego's first-year college text, DÍMELO TÚ!, is in its sixth edition, and his intermediate text, MUNDO 21, recently published in its fourth edition. He is a co-author of LANGUAGE AND CULTURE IN LEARNING: TEACHING SPANISH TO NATIVE SPEAKERS OF SPANISH and of DIME!, a seven-book school series that includes a two-year native Spanish speaker's program: Tu mundo and Nuestro mundo.

Francisco Rodriguez was born in Pedrera (Seville), Spain. He completed his Bachelor of Arts at the Universidad Pontificia Comillas in Madrid. His Master's degree is from San Francisco State University and his Ph.D. from the University of California at Davis. Currently he is an Associate Professor of Spanish in the School of Modern Languages at Santa Barbara City College. Francisco is co-author of the first-year college text, Dimelo tu! and is a specialist in the application of technology in second-language teaching and online instruction. He has also developed several Spanish assessment and placement tools. For the last several years, his teaching load has been 100 percent online.

Edition details

• Publisher: Cengage Learning
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0618348948
• ISBN 13: 9780618348947
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 512