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Somos vecinos
Joan F. Turner, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville
William C. Maisch, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Heather D. Mendoza, University of Arkansas, Fayettville

ISBN-10: 0130179264
ISBN-13: 9780130179265

Publisher: Prentice Hall
Copyright: 2004
Format: Paper; 256 pp
Published: 09/15/2003

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For one-semester undergraduate courses in Intermediate Spanish.

Exploring Latino culture in the U.S., this text will enable students to acquire not only a knowledge of the linguistic features of Spanish language, but also an understanding and appreciation of the people who speak it. Students will read about and listen to Latinos—through interviews, short stories, cultural selections, and video, acquire the vocabulary needed to discuss cultural themes, and communicate with Latinos—via actual or simulated interviews and e-mail—about the topics presented in a particular chapter.

  • Focus on Latino culture in the United States.

    • Promotes student understanding and appreciation of the Latino culture that they are most likely to encounter in their everyday lives.

  • Grammar review—Includes explanations in English of the chapter's grammar topics and includes examples of each.

    • Focuses on those cultural aspects of the Spanish language that are most essential for everyday communication and most problematic for English-speaking students of Spanish.

  • Unique video component.

    • Presents students with unscripted, spontaneous and unrehearsed Spanish that they are most likely to hear from Latinos living in the United States.

  • Entrevista.

    • Offers students practice for the actual interview they will conduct with an individual from their local Latino community, an individual contacted through the Internet, or a person featured on the video that accompanies the textbook.

  • Writing activities.

    • Helps students produce coherent writing examples by leading them through the processes of brainstorming, filling in charts or making lists, and using the information gathered in these activities to answer questions.

  • Oral exercises—Requires students to recycle vocabulary they are familiar with and apply it in a new context.

    • Gives students an opportunity to place themselves in a situation similar to one experienced by Hispanics interviewed in the text.



1. Los académicos.


2. Los de la tercera edad.


3. Los jóvenes.


4. Los artistas.


5. Los empleados.


6. Los profesionales.

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The ethnographic approach of Somos vecinos enables students to acquire not only a knowledge of the linguistic features of Spanish language, but also an understanding and appreciation of the people who speak it. Through culturally rich content, students learn new vocabulary and review grammar. Somos vecinos is a one-semester intermediate text that uses Latino culture in the United States as the content in a four-skills approach.

Features
  • Rich in cross-cultural experiences
  • High-interest and accessible authentic readings (e.g., interviews of real U.S. Latinos, short stories, poems)
  • Grammar review of the most common needs at the intermediate level
  • Four-skills approach
  • Students learn to communicate with Latinos via community-based and/or simulated interviews.
  • Process reading/writing approach
Supplements

Workbook, 0-13-110924-3
Student Video CD-ROM, 0-13-140984-0
Companion Website www.prenhall.com/somosvecinos
Instructor's Resource Manual, 0-13110566-3
Instructor's VHS Cassette, 0-13-185085-7

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