Conectando con mi herencia: lengua y cultura

Conectando con mi herencia: lengua y cultura provides a guided inductive and critical-thinking approach to teaching Spanish. It covers five goal areas: Communication, Cultures, Connections, Comparisons, and Communities.

Conectando con mi herencia: lengua y cultura features:

• various engaging activities.
• unit opening pages that visually engage learners and introduce them to the content.
• section opening pages with readings, surveys, or graphs related to the topic of the section and the unit.
• section content focusing on language varieties and usage, orthography, and grammar.
• boxes to assess understanding while concepts are fresh.
• readings that are short, informative, informal personal reflections, and journalistic and literary are centered on the thematic focus of the unit.
• entre dos lenguas brings the reality of the heritage learner’s experience to the forefront.
• writing as the focus of the final section of each unit.
• access to KHQ - a user friendly quizzing app available on the iTunes and Google Play stores. It includes a library of tested and proven terms and test questions from the author of the publication.

Conectando con mi herencia: lengua y cultura has been designed to:

• engage heritage learners of Spanish with a methodology more attuned to language arts in order to progressively develop their literacy as well as their aural and oral skills.
• develop and enhance their critical thinking skills.
• create an understanding, appreciation, and a sense of confidence among heritage learners of Spanish.

New and enhanced activities are included in this edition.