[email protected] | Customer Support 1-800-269-6311 33 chats and video recordings offer interactive practice to improve communicative skills. Effective Assessment Tools: New Prueba de Práctica activities reinforce learning and prepare students for assessments. Assignable IPAs with rubrics ensure structured, transparent evaluation. Experiential Learning Projects: Ten new project-based activities with rubrics promote hands-on learning and critical thinking, allowing in-depth exploration of cultural topics and practical language development. Enhanced Video Collection: Includes four new documentary-type videos and five new TV clips with integrated viewing activities, providing diverse, real-world contexts to boost listening and comprehension skills. What sets Perspectivas apart? Perspectivas A Cultural Approach José A. Blanco, Dawn Heston 2nd Edition | © 2026 | 10 lessons A Cultural Approach through Authentic Texts and Media Perspectivas is an intermediate Spanish program that emphasizes the cultural perspectives of the Spanish-speaking world by integrating cultural products and practices into every aspect of instruction. Utilizing a variety of authentic sources, the program develops communicative competence and encourages critical thinking through personalized, real-world tasks that build intercultural competence. Perspectivas offers a cultural focus to intermediate level learners that introduces various social practices, traditions, and cultural expression, and offers activities that engage learners in the interpretive, presentational, and interpersonal modes of communication. —Melissa Fiori, Daemen University • Authentic content: Exposes students to authentic content from diverse genres including documentary-style videos and TV short clips, informational articles and literature, and audio. • Thematic organization: All ten lessons of Perspectivas are organized around three overarching cultural themes: Costumbres y tradiciones, El entorno social, and Formas de expression. • Emphasizes all modes of communication, including intercultural communication. Enhancing the Hallmarks of Perspectivas Clear Objectives and Interactive Activities: Communicative objectives and Can-Do statements in every section set clear goals, while new group READY FOR FALL 2025 CLASSES INTERMEDIATE SPANISH
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