Loose Leaf for MAS

Pérez-Gironés, Ana María; Adán-Lifante, Virginia

ISBN 10: 1260136485 ISBN 13: 9781260136487

Publisher: McGraw Hill, 2018

Synopsis

MÁS is an Intermediate Spanish program built on the assumption that students learn best when they are fully engaged. Each component of the MÁS experience is designed to spark curiosity and inspire critical thinking.  Mas provides intriguing and timely cultural content throughout and a solid review of structures covered in the first year.  A newly enhanced Tertulia section in each chapter also places a strong emphasis on open-ended communication, ensuring that students benefit from a wealth of opportunities for communicative practice both in class and online.  Through its diverse and lively view of the Spanish speaking world Mas motivates a new generation of students to be inspired to communicate in Spanish.  When paired with McGraw-Hill’s Connect platform Mas provides a winning combination of engaging content and extensive practice to help students meet second-year expectations.  
Engaging & Relevant Video & Cultural ContentThe new "En Pantalla" feature is an engaging collection of videos designed to interest and engage students by including a mix of journalistic reports, informational videos, and short films that represent the variety of videos people typically watch daily.  These videos will help make the language meaningful to their everyday interactions with family, friends, and fellow students.  "En la comunidad" (formally En tu comunidad) sections focus on real, target-language based tasks that students can easily perform, and which emphasize the idea that community extends beyond the immediate community or neighborhood and to across the globe.  This latest edition now also contains authentic "Minilecturas" and "Lecturas" with authentic culture and language content, and unit 4 has been revised to focus on more relevant and engaging cultural topics, all making the reading throughout more intriguing and relevant for students. 
Expanded Communication Practice          A newly enhanced Tertulia section in each chapter ensures students benefit from a wealth of opportunities for communicative practice both in and out of class. 
Increased Practice Activities in Textbook and OnlineNow at least four activities for each grammatical lesson, providing students more opportunities to strengthen skills and communicate in a meaningful way.  This increased number of activities gives students more opportunities to put newly acquired grammar concepts into practice.  The ¿Cuándo se dice? (formerly ¡No te equivoques!) Redacción writing activities throughout the text include strategies for writing with embedded pertinent grammar lessons so students can more soundly build upon previous knowledge as they write.  McGraw-Hill's Connect platform now also contains an expanded selection of auto-graded practice and comprehension activities to help ensure that students are coming to class prepared to use the language and communicate in class. LearnSmart modules within connect provide students with an effective personalized and adaptive learning tool that assesses each students trouble spots and provides practice for strengthening those particular areas. These modules have been updated to closely align with the vocabulary and grammar of this latest edition.  
Content available on the GoWith the McGraw-Hill's Connect & Read Anywhere apps students can now access their course content anywhere, anytime; improving their homework & reading experience and improving overall course performance. 

About this title

About the Author:

Ana María Pérez-Gironés is an adjunct Professor of Spanish oat Western University, Middletown, Connecticut. She received a Licenciatura en Filología Anglogermánica from the Universidad de Sevilla in 1985, and her M.A. in General Linguistics from Cornell University in 1988. Her professional interests include second language acquisition and the integration of cultural competence and technology in language teaching

Virginia M. Adán-Lifante is Lecturer and Coordinator of the Spanish language courses at the University of California, Merced. She received her Licenciatura en Filología Hispánica from the Universidad de Sevilla in 1987, and her Ph.D. in Hispanic Languages and Literatures from the University of California, Santa Barbara in 1997. Dr. Adán-Lifante has served as reviewer of several Spanish language manuals and she has published numerous reviews and articles in professional journals such as La Torre, The Bilingual Review, Gestos, Revistas de Estudios Norteamericanos, South Central Review, and Revista de Estudios Hispánicos.

About this edition

• Publisher: McGraw Hill
• Publication date: 2018
• ISBN 10: 1260136485
• ISBN 13: 9781260136487
• Binding: Loose Leaf
• Edition number: 3
• Number of pages: 400