Temas: Spanish for the Global Community, Volume I (with Audio CD) - Softcover

Cubillos, Jorge H.; Lamboy, Edwin M.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1413028950 ISBN 13: 9781413028959

Publisher: Heinle, 2006

Synopsis

This new smaller split volume includes Chapters P-6 which covers the first half of the full version of the text.

About this title

About the Author:

Jorge H. Cubillos is a native of Colombia and a Ph.D. graduate in Spanish Applied Linguistics from The Pennsylvania State University. At the present time he is an Associate Professor at the University of Delaware where he Chairs the Spanish Faculty, and supervises Elementary and Intermediate Spanish instruction. Dr. Cubillos teaches graduate courses in Foreign Language Pedagogy and is in charge of the training of Teaching Assistants. He is the author of several materials for the teaching and learning of Spanish, among them Siempre adelante (textbook and CD-ROM reading assistant for Intermediate Spanish), and Mundos Hispanos (CD-ROM program for High School Spanish). His research work has been centered in the areas of culture, technology and student assessment.

Edwin M. Lamboy, a native of Puerto Rico coordinates the Spanish program at Montclair State University. With a Ph.D. from The Pennsylvania State University in Spanish Linguistics, he teaches at all levels of the curriculum from Elementary Spanish and Intermediate Spanish to Methods of Teaching Spanish in Secondary Schools and History of the Spanish Language. His research agenda has focused on the teaching of Spanish to Hispanic bilinguals and on sociolinguistic aspects of the use of Spanish in the New York area.

Review:

"Temas is an exciting way to teach language because it shows students the real life applications for what they are learning in the foreign language classroom. Temas integrates language and culture while teaching the four-skills, but more importantly, it prepares students for immediate interaction with the growing Hispanic population in the United States."

"I really like the Servicio comunitario section. It is extremely appropriate for what is happening on college/university campuses today. Community Service is a huge factor at my University (it is integrated from the First Year to the Final Year) and would help my program's Spanish courses to be more integrative and interdisciplinary."

"I like the extensive vocabulary phrase lists with accompanying translation in italics. The Preguntas y respuestas are a good re-enforcement exercise. They are a great help in the syntactical switches English speakers have. I have not seen this creativity in many books."

"One of the greatest features of this book is that it presents grammar within a context. This context is a dialog from the real world. Most of the time, students consider that we present grammar that is not used in the real world. However, this doesn't happen in this case."

"The chapter structure flows easily from one activity to the next. I really like the fact that all the activities are related to the topic to be studied! Usually the activity changes and becomes completely irrelevant to the topic just so that the grammar can be practiced. In Temas 2e you learn about the topic AND grammar with activities which are ALL relevant and related...this is GREAT!"

About this edition

• Publisher: Heinle
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 1413028950
• ISBN 13: 9781413028959
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 320