Spanish Higher Education 2022- 2023
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CONTENTS Introductory Spanish ¡Adelante!, 3rd Edition 9 Aventuras, 6th Edition 10 ¡Con brío!, 4th Edition 11 Dicho y hecho, 11th Edition 12 Experiencias Beginning 14 Panorama, 6th Edition 15 Portales Introductory Spanish 2.0 16 Protagonistas, 3rd Edition 18 Pura vida, 2nd Edition 19 Vistas, 7th Edition 20 Viva, 5th Edition 22 Introductory Spanish Feature Summary 24 Intermediate Spanish En tu medio, 2nd Edition 26 Enfoques/Facetas, 6th Edition 28 Enlaces, 3rd Edition 30 Experiencias Intermediate 31 Imagina/Sueña, 5th Edition 32 Perspectivas 33 Portales Intermediate Spanish 2.0 34 Intermediate Spanish Feature Summary 36 Advanced/Heritage Spanish Aproximaciones al estudio de la literatura hispánica, 8th Edition 38 Avanzando, 7th Edition 39 A Handbook of Contemporary Spanish Grammar, 2nd Edition 40 Intrigas, 3rd Edition 41 Letras de hispanoamérica 42 Repase y escriba, 8th Edition 43 Revista, 6th Edition 44 Taller de escritores, 3rd Edition 45 Conversaciones escritas, 3rd Edition 46 Galeria de lengua y cultura 47 Advanced/Heritage Spanish Feature Summary 48 Literature and Cultural Readers Leer en español 50 Zona Libre 51 Cara y Cruz 52 Clasicos Loqueleo 53
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06 NEW FOR FALL 2023 INTRODUCTORY SPANISH INTERMEDIATE SPANISH Vistas, 7th Edition Introducción a la lengua española The 7th Edition includes group chat activities, projects, a new Fotonovela, and more! Portales 2.0 Intermediate Spanish Portales 2.0 gives students the tools that they need to practice and explore the language, develop critical thinking, and improve their fluency. Dicho y hecho, 11th Edition Beginning Spanish This revision is fully informed by research in second language acquisition and teaching methodology. En tu medio, 2nd Edition Intermediate Spanish This program uses a task-based, studentfriendly approach to build toward higherlevel proficiency. Explore on page 20. Explore on page 34. Explore on page 12. Explore on page 26.
[email protected] | Customer Support 1-800-269-6311 07 NEW FOR FALL 2023 INTERMEDIATE SPANISH ADVANCED/HERITAGE SPANISH Enfoques & Facetas, 6th Edition Curso intermedio de lengua española Enhance your students’ cultural competency by using the language in context. Conversaciones escritas, 3rd Edition Lectura y redacción en contexto This textbook takes a fresh approach to writing for both second-language learners and heritage speakers. Repase y escriba, 8th Edition Curso avanzado de gramática y composición Combines solid grammar coverage with contemporary readings from a variety of sources. Explore on page 28. Explore on page 46. Explore on page 43. FOR SPRING 2023
Vista Higher Learning offers the widest range of introductory Spanish programs in the market. With our vast portfolio, we have something to fit the needs of any Spanish classroom—no matter your course goals. Our programs follow a variety of proven pedagogical approaches. They give your students a meaningful introduction to language through comprehensive exposure to both the language and cultures of the Spanishspeaking world, leading to proficiency and understanding. Our introductory Spanish programs: • Build a foundation of vocabulary and grammar guided by ACTFL standards • Introduce language with comprehensible and engaging authentic and cultural media • Put language to practice with real-world tasks and projects • Create global citizens by increasing students’ cultural competence INTRODUCTORY SPANISH
[email protected] | Customer Support 1-800-269-6311 09 INTRODUCTORY Teach introductory Spanish students everything they need to know with ¡Adelante!’s three-part worktext series. The self-contained worktexts start with appealing full-color lesson pages, followed by workbook, video, and lab activities. With thorough and clear grammar and vocabulary presentations, and culture integrated with each lesson, this new edition retains the hallmark features of ¡Adelante! • Worktext format offered as a three-volume series that can be used independently or in sequence as a convenient and affordable option. • A review section at the beginning of ¡Adelante! Dos and ¡Adelante! Tres strengthens and reinforces concepts • An engaging and effective integrated video program—ranging from a specially shot series to authentic video clips to provide comprehension and important cultural insights • A unique, appealing design with graphic elements specially chosen to help students get the most from learning • An articulated curriculum for a seamless transition to intermediate Spanish • Practical vocabulary and grammar explanations for real-life communication • A rich and modern presentation of everyday life and the diverse cultures of the Spanishspeaking world • Systematic development of reading, writing, and listening skills, incorporating learning strategies and a process approach • Groundbreaking, text-specific technology specially designed to expand students’ learning and instructors’ teaching options ¡Adelante! An Invitation to Spanish José A. Blanco, Philip R. Donley 3rd Edition | ©2021 | 3 volumes with 6 lessons each What sets ¡Adelante! apart? Highlights of the program Learn more at vistahigherlearning.com/adelante-3rdedition.html SPANISH
10 Shop for student savings at our online store: vistahigherlearning.com/store An interactive, communicative approach with students in mind How is the new Aventuras more communicative? • Pronunciation tutorials with speech recognition build confidence in word use, pronunciation, and spelling—all critical to students’ success in language acquisition. With embedded speech recognition activities, students have an opportunity to reflect on their language patterns and increase their awareness of pronunciation through low-stakes production practice. • Panorama Cultural videos support written paragraphs in the Aventuras en los países hispanos section. By reading, seeing, and hearing more cultural facts, students can reflect on how other cultures compare and contrast with their own, enhancing their cultural competence. • There are Communicative Goals in every section, with accompanying Can-do Statements at the end of each section. Students understand what they are learning and can self-assess as they learn. • The Aventuras fotonovela is based on the principles of comprehensible input, allowing students to experience language in a natural setting while deepening their understanding of cultural and social rules. • Forty-nine brand-new Video Virtual Chat activities help students develop their listening and speaking skills while building confidence as they engage in conversations with native speakers in the target language. Using video prompts, students benefit from nonverbal and articulatory cues that are essential for real-life interactions. Learn more at learn.vistahigherlearning.com/aventuras Aventuras Primer curso de lengua española José A. Blanco, Philip R. Donley 6th Edition | ©2022 | 16 lessons Aventuras’ student-friendly, interactive, and communicative approach develops speaking, listening, reading, and writing skills within a cultural setting, so students can communicate with confidence in reallife situations. This edition of Aventuras includes more communicative and cultural reflection activities and new technology tools like tutorials and video virtual chat activities to help your students communicate with confidence in real life situations! INTRODUCTORY SPANISH
[email protected] | Customer Support 1-800-269-6311 11 ¡Con brío! is a complete intro Spanish book presented in a brief format that focuses on communication and culture. Language and culture are presented in comprehensible short stories and conversations emphasizing high-frequency vocabulary and structures, recycling, and a reduction of grammar. Through the use of cultural videos and readings, students are encouraged to make cross-cultural observations and have meaningful cultural discussions. • Brief Grammar Explanations and Structured Input: Grammar and vocabulary are presented in small thematic chunks, or escenas, of the larger theme of the lesson. There is a reduction of grammar content and a focus on highfrequency structures and vocabulary using the structured input method. • Cultural and Comprehensible Videos: Videos en acción are short videos, comprehensible to the students, that are used to present the language in context. In Tu mundo cultural videos, real people are interviewed about their experiences, providing opportunities to interpret language in cultural context. • Clear Learning Objectives and Culminating Tasks: Each chapter starts with clear learning objectives and ends with a comprehensive strategy- and skill-building section culminating in a process-writing piece and a task applying the goals of the lesson. • Vocabulary and grammar are contextualized in small thematic scenes: Through graphic novel-style comprehensible stories, we follow a set of characters through their experiences, presenting everyday communication supported by embedded listening. Learn more at learn.vistahigherlearning.com/con-brio ¡Con brío! Beginning Spanish María Concepción, Lucas Murillo, Laila M. Dawson, Donna Shelton 4th Edition | ©2022 | 12 lessons We designed ¡Con brío! 4e to be a manageable twelve-chapter program appropriate for a two- or three-semester course sequence. Practice activities begin with input-based and tightly structured exercises and progress to open-ended and communicative tasks. We hope the thematic presentations of culture will motivate your students to appreciate the diversity of the Spanish-speaking world. —María Concepción, Lucas Murillo, Laila M. Dawson, and Donna Shelton; ¡Con brío! co-authors What sets ¡Con brío! apart? NOW WITH SUPERSITE! SPANISH INTRODUCTORY
12 Shop for student savings at our online store: vistahigherlearning.com/store Dicho y hecho is fully informed by research in second language acquisition and teaching methodology. It focuses on structured inputprocessing and output-based activities and tasks for meaningful and authentic communication void of drill activities, requiring students to negotiate meaning. As researchers and language educators, our pedagogical approach is based on sound language acquisition and teaching methodology research, leading students from comprehension to personal expression in carefully sequenced activities that are always meaningful, lively, and engaging. —Silvia Sobral • Approachable, communicative textbook: This program was updated to fulfill the need for an approachable, flexible, communicative text with a sound pedagogical foundation. • Research-based pedagogical approach: Input-processing principles in vocabulary and grammar instruction: All presentations start with comprehensible input, either visual or text. • Form-meaning connection is at the center: Activities are meaning-based, not mechanical. Language instruction is always at the service of communication. • Task-supported methodology: Vocabulary and grammar sections incorporate authentic, purposeful, multi-step tasks where learners produce new language independently and creatively as they work toward a tangible goal or outcome. Students need to solve communication gaps, agree on something, make plans, make decisions, express preferences, or make recommendations. What sets Dicho y hecho apart? Dicho y hecho Beginning Spanish Silvia Sobral, Kim Potowski 11th Edition | ©2024 | 15 Lessons READY FOR FALL 2023 Learn more at learn.vistahigherlearning.com/dicho-y-hecho INTRODUCTORY SPANISH
[email protected] | Customer Support 1-800-269-6311 13 The Student Edition has a brand-new design to make the learning experience as intuitive as possible. Revised Learning Objectives on the Chapter Opener pages and new Learning Objectives in each section make the learning process transparent and help students understand the purpose and intention behind everything they do. Can-do Statements at the end of each section promote student self-reflection about their own progress. Proyecto oral and Proyecto escrito in each lesson give students an opportunity to use the language they are learning creatively, in engaging and collaborative tasks where they have to think critically, negotiate in groups, and present their work to the rest of the class. The projects are supported by guiding questions, examples, and a rubric to set clear expectations. Authentic video collection: Interpretive listening skills and cultural competency are developed with compelling authentic videos, which replace the previous cultural videos in each lesson. These thought-provoking authentic videos were carefully chosen to reflect a variety of formats and facilitate discussion about current issues, including social justice themes, as well as offer a wide range of voices and perspectives from across the Spanish-speaking world. Supersite offers an unparalleled digital learning environment with integrated content, resources, and tools built exclusively to support language learning. Focus on Diversity, Inclusion, and Social Justice Themes As students gain confidence in their own language skills, Dicho y hecho aims at fostering contexts that are inclusive of diverse backgrounds and perspectives. Some of the selected readings, videos, and cultural topics will facilitate insightful discussions about important topics, such as what family means to you, an affordable housing program in Colombia, how mental health affects students in Spain, why a group of women in Mexico is fighting cultural appropriation in the fashion industry, and a discussion about race and visibility of the Afro community in Spain. What’s new to this edition? SPANISH INTRODUCTORY
14 Shop for student savings at our online store: vistahigherlearning.com/store Experiencias: Beginning Spanish was developed to give students a collection of rich cultural experiences of the Spanish-speaking world from which they build their own multimodal cultural portfolio of engaging projects in the target language. What sets Experiencias: Beginning Spanish apart? synthesize all they have learned about each region. In addition to these portfolio-style tasks/projects that appear in each lesson, students are also asked to work on a cultural project, a high-interest contemporary project, and a project where they need to research their own community. • Students learn with metacognition: Through the character Daniel—who makes frequent appearances throughout the program as the students’ personal guide and mentor, sharing language acquisition tips and strategies— students are made aware of how best to learn language. • Articulated program: Experiencias Beginning can be followed by Experiencias Intermediate. • Culture is the content: Deepening students’ understanding of the Spanish-speaking world’s cultures and developing cultural competence is the priority of this program. To do so, culture is the point of departure for all activities. • Second language acquisition (SLA) research put to practice: The authors have developed this program based on SLA research and their own classroom experience. Vocabulary is presented in smaller chunks utilizing inputbased and inductive approaches, with a reduced grammar focus and a concentration on high-frequency language. • Task-supported and project-based approach: In each chapter, learners need to complete three multimodal projects: write their own travel blog, create their own video, and Learn more at learn.vistahigherlearning.com/experiencias Experiencias: Beginning Spanish Diane Ceo-Difrancesco, Kathy Barton, Gregory L. Thompson, Alan V. Brown 1st Edition | ©2022 | 12 chapters Culture is the point of departure for all activities, and cultural competence is cultivated. Based on research in second language acquisition, metacognition, and student-centered pedagogy, Experiencias takes a unique and fresh approach where students are empowered with strategies that encourage them to take charge of their own learning experience. NOW WITH SUPERSITE! INTRODUCTORY SPANISH
[email protected] | Customer Support 1-800-269-6311 15 Panorama is an introductory Spanish text that helps students communicate effectively via a student-friendly approach, integration of video, and powerful online tools. Its fifteen lessons provide an extensive view of the Spanish-speaking world, plus additional options to further expand skill building. • Speech recognition: By offering immediate, intelligent feedback, activities using speech recognition enable students to study and practice key skills without requiring the constant involvement of the instructor. Students are encouraged to speak more, increasing their production of the target language as well as their engagement in the class. • Pronunciation tutorials: require students to engage with the material via quick checks throughout each tutorial. Interactive feedback via embedded speech recognition increases students’ awareness of pronunciation through low-stakes production practice. • Refuerzo de vocabulario: The student is presented with a picture or image and asked to speak and record the correct word associated with that image. Panorama’s speech recognition analyzes the recording for accuracy and provides the student with immediate feedback. • Comprehensive video program: Flash cultura, fotonovela, authentic TV clips, and short films provide valuable cultural insights as well as linguistic input; the episodes will expose students to a wide variety of accents and vocabulary in both comprehensible and authentic settings. • Additional skill-building section in every third lesson allows you to assign additional skillfocused homework to your students. Learn more at learn.vistahigherlearning.com/panorama Panorama Introductory Spanish José A. Blanco, Philip R. Donley 6th Edition | ©2021 | 15 lessons Highlights of the program One of the most wonderful textbooks I have ever used. The chapters have relevant vocabulary and the grammar flows well from chapter to chapter. —Kristin Osowski, Diablo Valley College SPANISH INTRODUCTORY
16 Shop for student savings at our online store: vistahigherlearning.com/store Innovative. Engaging. Interactive. Portales offers an unparalleled digital learning environment, with integrated content, resources, and tools built exclusively to support language teaching and learning. Developed with continuous user input and real-time data analysis, Portales makes teaching easier for you and language learning more engaging for your students. The online setup can’t be beat. It is by far the best out there, and I have used many. Portales 1 enables us to cater to all learning modalities: face to face, hybrid, and online. It works for all approaches and is incredibly well put together. —Albert Shank, Instructor, Scottsdale Community College • Designed for language learning, by language experts: Portales is designed exclusively for language learning, and includes robust resources for instructors: including Learning Tracks for easy course setup, timesaving gradebook analytics, auto-graded activities, personalization tools, and robust instructor resources for use in the classroom, online, or in hybrid environments. • Unique learning progression: Portales isn’t just a book, but an entire learning environment where students are led through the learning experience. The activities and features are designed to keep them engaged every step of the way. With Portales, students can explore and learn at their own pace. • Digital innovation: Portales deepens and enhances the student learning experience with its unique progression of interactive instructional activities, personalized diagnostics, and groundbreaking language learning technology such as speech recognition. The learning activities are designed to keep students engaged every step of the way with dynamic vocabulary tutorials in the target language, interactive grammar tutorials, and culturally rich video. • Support for interculturality: Interculturality is supported by the addition of ACTFL Standards and correlations, along with annotations related to cultural content and communicative goals. What sets Portales apart? Portales 2.0 Introductory Spanish José A. Blanco ©2023 | 18 Lessons Learn more at learn.vistahigherlearning.com/portales INTRODUCTORY SPANISH
[email protected] | Customer Support 1-800-269-6311 17 Project-focused Learning Track Projects help students build on their knowledge and their relationships with other students. Each lesson of Portales 2.0 includes one themebased project, with assignable tasks over the course of the lesson. Students will learn and practice research skills, language skills, and communication skills. Assignable Integrated Performance Assessments (IPAs) IPAs use authentic cultural content, complete with rubric grading and video upload. These assessments measure student progress toward proficiency in the three modes of communication: Interpretive, Interpersonal, and Presentational. Expanded video content • New Fotonovela episodes that engage students and bridge language and culture • Ten new En pantalla TV clips with authentic advertising and broadcast clips from different Spanish-speaking countries • Eighty-four new Panorama cultural videos, which provide compelling visuals to accompany Panorama activities Art and illustration program The updated art and illustration program is full of contemporary, diverse illustrations that put vocabulary into today’s social context and support inclusive teaching practices. Group and individual video recording submission expand student production Group Chat and Individual Recording Activities allow single or multiple students to record a video production exercise, providing instructors with more flexibility in creating and assigning activities to groups within their classes. Group Chat offers valuable practice that simulates the conversations most typical to a language classroom. These activities also ready students for authentic communication with native speakers, which typically occurs in a group setting. Communicative Goals and Can-do Statements build student’s confidence Communicative goals are now listed at the beginning of each section. After the activities in that section, the “I can” statement reminds students which goal they achieved. At the end of the lesson, a summary of the communicative goals achieved and a review activity for each goal are presented. Annotations to the Instructor indicate the correlation to the ACTFL standards. What’s new to this edition? SPANISH INTRODUCTORY
18 Shop for student savings at our online store: vistahigherlearning.com/store Developed in Spain and adapted for use in the North American market, Protagonistas takes a unique approach to beginning Spanish. Each lesson introduces students to a protagonista—an individual from the Spanish-speaking world—and the protagonista is the basis for exploring aspects of culture and daily life while modeling language. • Project-based learning (PBL): Tarea final activities provide students with an initial approach to PBL. They will find a challenging problem or task to face in pairs or groups. This way, they have the opportunity to inquire, research, reflect, analyze, and present their work as they apply the lesson structures and vocabulary in meaningful, real-life situations. • Language presented at point-of-use: Vocabulary and grammatical structures are presented through multiple contact points, from immediate, hands-on examples to complete and contextualized explanations. • Support for interculturality: Interculturality is supported by the addition of ACTFL Standards and CEFR correlations for specific activities on the same page or spread so that instructors can see them at point of use, along with annotations related to cultural content and communicative goals. Learn more at learn.vistahigherlearning.com/protagonistas Protagonistas A communicative approach Charo Cuadrado, Pilar Melero, Enrique Sacristán 3rd Edition | ©2023 | 18 lessons What sets Protagonistas apart? Protagonistas’ approach to the linguistic aspects of interaction is both communicative and functional-notional. This text emphasizes task-driven communication within meaningful, pragmatic contexts of everyday life. The four skills are taught through a series of short, interactive activities. —Stacy Amling, Des Moines Area Community College It’s a unique book, based in the functional approach with culture as a central component. I feel strongly that the approach in Protagonistas is better suited to helping students actually learn and acquire the ability to use their language skills in the real world. INTRODUCTORY SPANISH
[email protected] | Customer Support 1-800-269-6311 19 Pura vida is an innovative program that teaches cultural literacy with a unique approach, encouraging students to discover language and culture through the experiences of its people. This discovery method leads students to think critically and make their own cross-cultural comparisons, while at the same time giving them a strong foundation in Spanish so they can use it in their everyday lives as true global citizens. • Students learn language through the integration of research-based principles of structured input and a task-supported approach where all the content is cultural. • Cross-cultural approach to understanding perspectives: Students are encouraged to discover cultural differences and similarities rather than being told about them. Through the unique Una perspectiva and Otra perspectiva readings, cultural similarities and differences observed by Spanish-speakers visiting the US, and Americans visiting Spanish speaking countries, are highlighted as they share and reflect on their experiences. • Class-tested and based on research in second language acquisition: Vocabulary and grammar are presented through meaningful, comprehensible stories and vignettes with structured input to output and constant recycling. Learning strategies and tasks are presented throughout. • Tarea final-culminating project: Tarea final is a culminating project that integrates the cultural and language content covered throughout the chapter. Learn more at learn.vistahigherlearning.com/pura-vida Pura vida Beginning Spanish Norma Lopez-Burton, Laura Marqués-Pascual, Cristina Pardo-Ballester 2nd Edition | ©2022 | 12 chapters What sets Pura vida apart? In Pura vida, culture is embedded with the traditional grammar and vocabulary, making culture an essential part of the text. Every Spanishspeaking country is profiled. Every culturally driven vignette is realistic because it comes from real-life scenarios. Our goal is to teach students cultural literacy while at the same time giving them a strong foundation in Spanish that they can use it in their everyday lives. —Norma Lopez-Burton, Laura Marqués-Pascual and Cristina PardoBallester; Pura vida co-authors NOW WITH SUPERSITE! SPANISH INTRODUCTORY
20 Shop for student savings at our online store: vistahigherlearning.com/store Vistas is a comprehensive, student-friendly approach to introductory Spanish, refreshed with new print and enhanced online content, including new Fotonovela video and activities, new Proyecto page, new Escuchar audio and activities, new rubric grading for assignable IPAs (Integrated Performance Assessments), and new readings and videos. The new edition of Vistas is more diverse and inclusive and includes more communicative and cultural reflection activities, plus new technology to help your students communicate with confidence in real-life situations! • The fourth mode of communication is the Intercultual Mode. We have incorporated Interculturality and Student Reflection throughout the 7th Edition. • Cultural lesson objectives appear in every section, with accompanying Can-do Statements at the end of each section. • Updated culture readings are more interesting and relevant to students, and include thoughtprovoking questions about cultural perspectives that encourage students to think beyond what and more about why people do things. Cultural reflection questions about products, practices, and perspectives are included throughout. This kind of reflection can make better global citizens. • Flash cultura now has interactive or presentational activities. These give students the opportunity to apply what they have learned from the videos in a conversation or presentation that is focused on a better understanding of cultural products and perspectives. • Even more Panorama cultural videos are focused on the products and perspectives of the Spanish-speaking parts of the world. How does Vistas increase students’ intercultural competency and understanding? Learn more at learn.vistahigherlearning.com/vistas Vistas Introductory Spanish José A. Blanco, Philip R. Donley 7th Edition | ©2024 | 18 Lessons READY FOR FALL 2023 CLASSES INTRODUCTORY SPANISH
[email protected] | Customer Support 1-800-269-6311 21 How does Vistas new edition assess real-life learning and application of the language and culture? Through the new Proyecto in every lesson! Projects alternate between creating a video and writing. Students read about the project assignment, prepare for the assignment, do research, and create a final presentation. The new Proyecto prompts students to use Spanish to accomplish something meaningful, makes learning memorable, and fosters creativity, as students can add their own voice to what they produce. It also allows students to create a portfolio to document their learning for personal and professional purposes. Expanded video content • New Fotonovela episodes that engage students and bridge language and culture • New En pantalla TV clips with authentic advertising and broadcast clips from different Spanish-speaking countries • New Panorama cultural videos, which provide compelling visuals to accompany Panorama activities Art and illustration program The updated art and illustration program is full of contemporary, diverse illustrations that put vocabulary into today’s social context and support inclusive teaching practices. Group and individual video recording submission expand student production Group Chat and Individual Recording Activities allow single or multiple students to record a video production exercise, providing instructors with more flexibility in creating and assigning activities to groups within their classes. Group Chat offers valuable practice that simulates the conversations most typical to a language classroom. These activities also ready students for authentic communication with native speakers, which typically occurs in a group setting. News and Cultural Updates With monthly online News and Cultural Updates, you’ll receive monthly links to carefully curated, authentic resources from across the Spanish speaking world. From online newspaper articles to TV news segments, each authentic source is chosen for its age-appropriate content, currency, and high interest to students. Each selection includes scaffolded pre-, during-, and post reading (or viewing) activities for a wide range of learning abilities. What else is new to this edition? SPANISH INTRODUCTORY
22 Shop for student savings at our online store: vistahigherlearning.com/store Expand Students’ Cultural Perspectives ¡Viva! is a lighter introductory program whose manageability sets students up for success without overwhelming them. It develops speaking, listening, reading, and writing skills within a cultural setting, so students are capable of communicating with confidence in real-life situations. A complete Spanish beginner program that students love! I find it very easy to teach with. —Florence Dwyer, Thomas More University cultural short documentary videos. They allow students to explore countries in the Spanish-speaking world and experience language in natural and real-life settings, while deepening students’ understanding of cultural and social rules. Highlights of the program • Brand-new Video Virtual Chats for practice in real-life contexts through simulated conversations with native using video prompt recordings • Vocabulary Tutorials with a game-like cumulative matching activity • News and Cultural Updates • Culture as an integral part of language learning: ¡Viva!’s cultural program exposes students to diverse and authentic cultures and accents. It offers a valuable window into the products, practices, and perspectives that are key to the cultures of the Spanish-speaking world. Each lesson maintains a focus on the Hispanic world through cultural themes to captivate, readings to deepen students’ understanding, and videos to get closer to the culture’s reality. • Comprehensive multi-genre video program: ¡Viva!’s video library includes Escenas fotonovela episodes (with integrated viewing activities), Flash cultura with specially shot videos, authentic TV clips, and Panorama Learn more at learn.vistahigherlearning.com/viva ¡Viva! Primer curso de lengua española José A. Blanco, Philip R. Donley 5th Edition | ©2023 | 16 Lessons What sets ¡Viva! apart? INTRODUCTORY SPANISH
[email protected] | Customer Support 1-800-269-6311 23 News and Cultural Updates Access monthly links to carefully curated, authentic resources from across the Spanish-speaking world. Enhance your Spanish classroom with: • Level-appropriate content • Authentic, culturally relevant sources • Current and engaging material • Scaffolded activities for each selection News and Cultural Updates appear in their own section at the end of the Table of Contents, in the Content area. Activities are posted monthly from September through May, with all postings archived for easy, any-time access. SPANISH INTRODUCTORY
24 Shop for student savings at our online store: vistahigherlearning.com/store Learning Tracks: Pre-created course templates Guided Online Learning Progression 3 step Vocabulary Tutorials with Speech Recognition Speech recognition activities Grammar Tutorials Pronunciation Tutorials Fotonovela Short films Flash cultura and interview-based videos Authentic video Language strategy videos Cultural videos or audio Authentic readings News and Cultural Updates Video Virtual Chats Group Chats Projects Assignable IPAs Question bank Practice Quizzes with diagnostics Adelante 3e Aventuras 6e Protagonistas 3e Experiencias: Beginning Viva 5e Panorama 6e Con brío 4e Pura vida 2e Dicho y hecho 11e Vistas 7e Portales 2.0: Introductory FEATURE SUMMARY As you evaluate our programs, use this chart to compare the different digital tools and specific features from each program in order to find the one that best meets your course needs. Please note: All programs include our new Assessment Builder and Video Partner Chats. SPANISH INTRODUCTORY
Vista Higher Learning’s commitment to language does not stop at the introductory level. We want students to continue their studies of Spanish and we understand that in order for that to happen, we need to provide students with engaging and thought-provoking material that captures their interest and makes them want to learn more! We are proud to offer the largest and most comprehensive selection of intermediate Spanish programs on the market—programs that do indeed inspire life-long learners. Our intermediate Spanish programs: • Use award-winning short films and video clips to present real language and culture in real contexts, providing opportunities for students to build their language proficiency • Include thought-provoking authentic materials carefully chosen to facilitate discussion about a variety of current issues, including social justice themes; as well as offer a wide range of voices and perspectives from across the Spanish-speaking world, with a focus on cross-cultural communication and critical thinking • Offer one- and two-semester programs to fit your specific course needs INTRODUCTORY INTERMEDIATE SPANISH
26 Shop for student savings at our online store: vistahigherlearning.com/store INTERMEDIATE SPANISH • Brief videos to engage students and build cross-cultural understanding Para tus ojos is a short video that focuses on the chapter’s thematic and regional context. At the same time, it activates target vocabulary and/or previews grammar concepts. The Para tus ojos section fully supports video comprehension and analysis with pre-, during-, and post-viewing activities. • Input processing with task-based activities This proven model makes new concepts accessible to students by allowing them to notice and process content before they are asked to use or produce discourse with new information. En tu medio incorporates a communicative approach that emphasizes high-interest, culturally relevant input. Every aspect of this program was designed with the twenty-first century learner in mind. It features a highly visual format, student-friendly themes, a focus on youth culture, authentic short films, blogs, social media, profiles of real people, and readings that help students forge a personal connection to the target culture. This program uses a task-based, student-friendly approach to build from the introductory level toward the higher-level proficiency needed for students’ next Spanish language courses. • En tu medio offers a broad array of theoretically grounded, class-tested, interactive, and engaging activities that develop all language skills while students complete meaningful tasks. • Fully integrated thematic and cultural context En tu medio integrates cultural information and authentic materials specific to the target region throughout the chapter so that students explore language in context. Learn more at learn.vistahigherlearning.com/en-tu-medio Unique features that set this program apart: En tu medio Intermediate Spanish Leah Fonder-Solano, Casilde A. Isabelli, María Isabel Martínez Mira 2nd Edition | ©2024 | 10 lessons READY FOR FALL 2023 CLASSES
[email protected] | Customer Support 1-800-269-6311 27 Cortometraje: A high-interest authentic short film is provided in alternating chapters to enrich cultural knowledge, model regional and colloquial usage, challenge students with higher-level language, and serve as a springboard for linguistic and cultural analysis. Cultura: This culture section offers a window into the lives of real people who live and work in the regions of study through interviews, blogs, What’s new to this edition? articles, biographies, and profiles of people (both ordinary and extraordinary) who exemplify some unique cultural aspect or social issue of the region of study, or some historical insight into it. Literatura: This section presents an engaging literary reading that provides sophisticated insight into the culture and/or social issues of the target area. Complete redesign meant to better support student learning. Revised Learning Objectives in the Chapter Opener and new Learning Objectives in each section make the learning process transparent and help users understand the purpose and intention behind everything they do. Can-do Statements at the end of each section promote students’ selfreflection about their own progress. Improved treatment of diversity, equality, and inclusion (DEI) throughout, with more thoughtful and purposeful use of articles and videos addressing social and racial justice, cultural identities, people with disabilities, LGBTQ+, native peoples, and women as game changers and in empowering roles, and the addition of Social Awareness instructor notes throughout. Supersite offers an unparalleled digital learning environment with integrated content, resources, and tools built exclusively to support language learning. INTERMEDIATE SPANISH
28 Shop for student savings at our online store: vistahigherlearning.com/store INTERMEDIATE SPANISH Learn more at learn.vistahigherlearning.com/enfoques What sets this program apart? Enfoques provides intermediate Spanish students with an active learning experience as they strengthen their language skills and develop their cultural competency. Enfoques is built to encourage real communication in meaningful contexts, and to develop and consolidate students’ speaking, listening, reading, and writing skills. The program also stresses cultural competency, which plays an integral role in language learning. It features a fresh, magazine-like design that engages students while integrating thematic, cultural, and grammatical concepts within every section of the text. • The Fotonovela is a twelve-episode story set against the unique backdrop of Oaxaca, México. As you watch the episodes—one per lesson—you will see the characters using real-world language in contexts and situations that reflect the themes of the textbook lessons. Humor and dramatic tension, along with surprising twists and turns, promise to keep students engaged and give a sense of modern, day-to-day life in Mexico. Cultural elements and stunning aerial footage drive the fastpaced storyline. The video includes all lesson grammar topics and Manual de Gramática topics, while the activities are designed to put new vocabulary into practice. • Enfoques incorporates short films, fine art, literature selections, and cultural readings as springboards for discussion and writing, while providing frameworks to help students use language creatively. Enfoques Curso intermedio de la lengua española 6th Edition | ©2024 | 12 lessons READY FOR FALL 2023 CLASSES
[email protected] | Customer Support 1-800-269-6311 29 • Cinemateca features award-winning short films by contemporary Hispanic filmmakers. Films are thematically linked to the lessons, while pre- and post-viewing activities prepare students and check their comprehension. • Lecturas provides a springboard for students to think, discuss, and write about what they’ve learned. • Fine art makes a connection between the lesson theme and the reading topic. • Literatura showcases literary readings by well-known writers. • Cultura readings present a unique range of topics that expose you to the people, traditions, and accomplishments of the different cultures of the Spanish-speaking world. Learn more at learn.vistahigherlearning.com/facetas Las diversiones sesenta y siete 67 Video: Short Film Mejor montaje 2017 Pickurflick Indie Film Festival, India Mejor corto 2017 Certamen de cortometrajes de Castilla-La Mancha, España Mejor corto nacional 2017 Festival Ojos del Guadiana, España Mejor guion 2016 Festival Nacional de Cortometrajes de Talavera – Premios Pávez, España UNA PRODUCCION DE EVASION CINE UN CORTOMETRAJE DE HUGO DE LA RIVA CON LA COLABORACION DE CANON / INSTITUTO DEL CINE DE MADRID / DIPUTACION DE CUIDAD REAL / AYUNTAMIENTO DE ALCAZAR DE SAN JUAN ALBERTO AMARILLA SATURNINO GARCIA JUAN CARLOS ARRAEZ EMMA CABALLERO GUION Y DIRECCION HUGO DE LA RIVA DIRECTOR DE PRODUCCION JOSE LUIS MATAS-NEGRETE DIRECTOR DE FOTOGRAFIA JOSE ALBERTO MARTINEZ MUSICA POR RAMON GARCIA / SOLER Y RAUL GALVAN DISEÑO DE SONIDO Y MEZCLAS ALBERTO PACHECO MONTAJE POR SARA AZCONA JEFES DE PRODUCCION MIRIAM LOZANO Y ALVARO TEJERO EFECTOS VISUALES/ POST PRODUCCION JULS GARS AYUDANTE DE DIRECCION FRAN GIL-ORTEGA ENF6e_IAE_L02_CI.indd 67 10/06/2022 4:11:23 p. m. Facetas is suitable for classes lasting one semester. It’s a brief version of Enfoques, built to promote meaningful conversations while developing students’ skills towards proficiency and helping instructors deliver the learning outcome set by them and their department. Facetas Curso breve 6th Edition | ©2024 | 6 lessons READY FOR FALL 2023 CLASSES INTERMEDIATE SPANISH
30 Shop for student savings at our online store: vistahigherlearning.com/store INTERMEDIATE SPANISH Encourage student interaction with language • Real-life, practical vocabulary is presented through the Blog de un catalán en Colombia, followed by directed and communicative activities. This blog is narrated by Javier, a student from Spain living in Colombia, who shares his observations in order to bring the theme and vocabulary to life. Though this blog, students strengthen their language skills while developing their cultural competency. • The six short films in Cortometraje are now interactive videos with integrated pre- and post-viewing activities. The film is presented in segments and tests comprehension as students watch. The videos pause at checkpoints where students complete short activities to test their understanding. Enlaces is an intensive, one-semester intermediate Spanish program that features a fresh, magazine-like design with authentic short films and readings, weaving thematic, cultural, and grammatical concepts throughout each of its lessons. An intensive program to go farther Enlaces is an intensive intermediate Spanish program, with minimal review of introductory level material. This program is based on Imagina, but there are some key differences: Enlaces includes higher-level grammar review, a different film catalog, new vocabulary presentation via a blog, and is designed for one semester only. • New Video Virtual Chats are more interactive than the previous virtual chats. Five web-only chats are available per lesson, and they allow students to practice in real-life contexts with native speakers’ simulated conversations. They include video scripts to make them fully accessible, so students can gain confidence speaking without the need for a live partner. • The Cultura and Imagina sections now feature audio-sync so students can hear the text while reading it, which helps them with listening and pronunciation. This tool makes Enlaces more accessible, saving time and effort for instructors in adapting material to all learners. Learn more at learn.vistahigherlearning.com/enlaces What sets this program apart? Enlaces Nivel Intermedio | Curso intensivo 3rd Edition | ©2023 | 6 lessons
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