Mundo 21

Mundo 21 offers a content-based approach to the intermediate-level course, broadening students' understanding of the Spanish-speaking world by covering its diverse culture, history, and authentic literature. This text is designed to encourage communication, learning in context, process writing, literary analysis, critical thinking, as well as pair and group work. Mundo 21 may also be used as the primary text in a third-year culture and civilization course. Mundo 21 features activities that motivate students to develop greater cultural competency and proficiency in all four language skills.To aid acquisition, new and recycled grammar points have been carefully woven into each lesson's content and writing activities. In addition, individual sections of the grammar manual appear at the end of each corresponding geographical unit, facilitating the correlation between grammar and writing.

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.