[email protected] | Customer Support 1-800-269-6311 31 • Experiencias Intermediate continues to develop communicative competence, while focusing on contemporary, high-interest, relevant, and social justice themes. Each chapter introduces the students to real people, products, and practices from a specific region, and then asks the students to investigate, explain, and reflect on what they have learned, building a connection to the people and their culture. • Task-supported and project-based approach Students are asked to engage in interesting task-based projects throughout the program. In each chapter, learners need to complete three multimodal projects: writing their own travel blog, applying language as it applies to their future profession, and building an e-cuaderno synthesizing all they have learned about each Experiencias is developed to guide students through a collection of rich cultural experiences of the Spanish-speaking world while prompting interaction and communication in Spanish. Students build their own multimodal cultural portfolio of engaging projects in the target language. Culture is the point of departure for all activities, and cultural and linguistic competencies are cultivated. Based on research in second language acquisition, metacognition, and student-centered pedagogy, Experiencias offers a unique approach through which students are empowered with strategies that encourage them to take charge of their own learning experience. region. In addition to these three portfolio-style tasks, which repeat in each chapter, students are also asked to work on high-interest contemporary cultural and community research projects. • Second language acquisition (SLA) research put into 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, asking students to make inferences. Through a reduced grammar focus and a concentration on high-frequency language and communicative structure reinforced by frequent and intentional recycling, students are set up to succeed and develop their language proficiency. Learn more at learn.vistahigherlearning.com/experiencias What sets this program apart? <TK> Experiencias Intermediate Spanish Diane Ceo-Difrancesco, Kathy Barton, Gregory L. Thompson, Alan V. Brown 1st Edition | ©2020 | 12 lessons NOW WITH SUPERSITE! SPANISH INTERMEDIATE
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