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| Category: |
Spanish Language Studying |
| Title: |
Dos mundos (Student edition w/ Listening Comprehension CD) |
| URL: |
http://www.getspanish.org/buy-0072492937.htm |
| Released Date: |
September 19, 2001 |
| Cost: |
$98.75 |
| List Price: |
$98.75 |
| Pages: |
640 pages |
| Edition: |
Hardcover |
| ISBN: |
0072492937 |
| Publisher: |
McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages; 5 edition |
| Author: |
Tracy D Terrell, Magdalena Andrade, Jeanne Egasse, Miguel Muñoz, Magdalena Andrade, Jeanne Egasse, Miguel Munoz |
| Keywords: |
speaking spanish, spanish study, learn spanish |
| Summary: |
The philosophy of this best-selling introductory text is to emphasize communicative proficiency. Based on the Natural Approach, the text stresses the use of activities in a natural and spontaneous classroom atmosphere. In this comprehension-based approach, the development of receptive skills —listening and reading— precedes and forms the basis for the development of the productive skills —speaking and writing. Dos mundos is designed so that class time can be devoted to exposing students to Spanish through the abundant activities and readings in the text, allowing the grammar explanations and exercises to be studied outside of class. |
| Description / Comment: |
I have been teaching using this book, which only works for intermediate students: In fact it is the best book I have ever found FOR TEACHERS! The grammar explanations are clear but it has too many concepts in each chapter, it is definitely a book I would NOT use with beginner students, it doesn't provide for enough drills and practices. For beginners, it is very important to have just one type of exercises and a lot of drills until they start internatilizing the language. There is nothing wrong with the book, if the authors would state that it is only for students of a certain level. Also, for all book writers, please do not use American-APuerto Rican or American Cuban accents, we can't use those phony accent tapes in Latin America when we know that native speakers don't speak like that. The vosotros should be dropped and left as a marginal note. The model of the language that is still being used in the United States is the Spanish from Spain. Currently, Spanish from Mexico is the Spanish most widely heard and it has been chosen as the model Spanish for Latin MTV. The theoretical concept of the "Natural approach" is great, if the book is true to the theory behind it, it must provide for true beginners, or make a preliminary book to accompany DOS MUNDOS. |
