The Fifth Edition remains faithful to the original goals of the Atando cabos program, which have made it so popular at so many colleges and universities across North America. It continues to focus on the needs of learners in third- and/or fourth-semester Spanish courses.

• Content-based Approach.Instructors and students will find a wide variety of topics that will hold their interest while they practice the language.

• Four-skills in Support of Communication. The basic skills–listening, speaking, reading, and writing–are taught as building blocks that lead to higher proficiency and better communication. Students learn to express, interpret, and negotiate meaning in context, supported by clear grammatical explanations and charts.

• Development of Sociolinguistic Competence. Atando cabos seeks to develop both fluency and accuracy, while fostering the student’s ability to function within Hispanic cultures. Sociolinguistic competence is given a special place; it serves as a springboard to the world outside of the classroom.

• Focus on the 5 C’s of the National Standards. Fully integrated, cultural information and authentic materials facilitate the learning process. All activities are designed to either increase cultural awareness or help students personalize and relate the material to their own experiences.

• Opportunities for personalized learning. Atando cabos addresses the main challenge encountered at the intermediate level; the wide range of language ability that students present at this stage of learning Spanish. Our learner-centered approach tackles the “loose ends” students normally bring to the classroom that need to be tied up during the course of the second year of language learning, and then allows them the freedom to work individually on selected areas. Furthermore, the program offers instructors a rich array of resources from which they can choose to create a course that addresses their students’ unique needs.

• Consistent recycling of vocabulary and grammar structures throughout the text. Uses constant reinforcement to help students learn and retain all phases of vocabulary and grammar.

Atando cabos: Curso intermedio de español, 5th edition

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