Temas: Spanish for the Global Community (with Audio CD)

TEMAS, Second Edition is the pioneering text which provides opportunities for students to effect change in the world beyond the confines of their classrooms through the use of their emerging linguistic skills in real life challenges. The pedagogical foundations as well as its thematic orientation are maintained in the second edition, while authentic language use through interactive real-world tasks remains at the core of the program. TEMAS is committed to its goal of preparing learners of Spanish for professional and social interactions with native speakers in the global community, both in the United States and abroad.

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.