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| Title | Texts for Adult Spanish Learners |
| Body | I will be teaching beginning adult learners for the third time this fall. My first time around I used the recommended text, "Spanish is Fun." I do NOT recommend it; it makes Spanish dull, though there are some parts that I would perhaps copy and include in an ancillary packet. The second text that I would thoroughly recommend is Mosaicos, published by Prentice Hall. This was for a Spanish 101 course (considered to be the equivalent of 2 years high school Spanish), so it advances rather quickly but contains a good number of reading, writing and speaking activities. This fall I will be teaching a Conversational Spanish class and will be using Invitaciones, published by Vista Higher Learning. Here's the link: http://www.vistahigherlearning.com/catalog/invitaciones I like it because everything is contained in one text; there is no secondary workbook to keep flipping back to when students are practicing a particular grammar or vocab point. Also, the communicative activities are wonderful; they include a "Student 1/ Student 2"-type set up where one page is upside down, allowing two students to partner with one book and complete a speaking activity that uses graphics, maps, etc. Also helpful is the "soap opera-ish" video, which integrates vocab and grammar from each lesson. Very well done. Just my two cents. Carillo, H.K. Re: textbook for beginning adult learners of Spanish. Foreign Language Teaching Forum listserv. FLTEACH@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU (26 July 2006). |
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| Inputdate | 2006-08-09 13:15:00 |
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