Conectandonos: A customized version for SPAN 101 at Concordia University Wisconsin and Ann Arbor
Edition: 1
Copyright: 2021
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A culture-based, critical-thinking approach to learning and using Spanish in context.
Conectándonos is a culture-based first year textbook that focuses on the analysis of language in its cultural context. By combining a textbook and website, Conectándonos engages students from the very beginning in the development of productive abilities as proposed by the Council on the National Standards for Foreign Language Learning.
The third edition of Conectándonos:
- presents learners with themes and topics that lead them to actively contrast and compare linguistic structures and cultural perspectives across Spanish varieties as well as between Spanish and English.
- promotes the development of a learner-centered environment in which students can analyze data, find patterns of use and structure, make tentative hypotheses, and try them out.
- systematically introduces learners to significant and systematic regional variations that provide students with the chance to understand a wide variety of representative regional accents and uses of Spanish that students will encounter in the real world in which the many varieties of Spanish are used.
- provides students with strategies needed to develop useful language skills in reading, writing, speaking, listening, pronunciation, and cultural analysis.
- integrates cultural information throughout the majority of sections of every chapter.
Preface
CAPÍTULO 1: Bienvenidos
Geographic focus: El español en el mundo hispanohablante
Vocabulario en contexto
- Saludos y presentaciones. Datos personales
- Interacciones formales e informales (tú and usted)
- Préstamos, cognados, formas de palabras y contexto
- En el salón de clase: Los números y el alfabeto
Gramática en contexto
- Subject pronouns and cases when they are optional
- The verb ser
- Gender and number of nouns
- Definite vs. indefinite articles
- Demonstrative adjectives
Integración comunicativa
- Conversación: Common interactions in the Spanish class
- Pronunciación: English and Spanish contrasts
- Lectura: Skimming a text
- Comprensión oral: Contextual cues
- Escritura: Model and process writing
Comparaciones culturales
- Cultura: ¿Cuántos continentes hay?
- Literatura: Poesía bilingüe
- Diferencias dialectales: Vocabulario
CAPÍTULO 2: EE.UU. en español
Geographic focus: Estados Unidos
Vocabulario en contexto
- Los colores y las nacionalidades
- El cuerpo humano y la personalidad
Gramática en contexto
- Plurals of nouns
- Adjectives and articles: Agreement with nouns
- The verb estar with emotions and locations
- Present tense: Regular verbs
- Question words and yes/no questions
- Possessive adjectives
Integración comunicativa
- Conversación: Apologizing and making requests
- Pronunciación: The [o] sound at the end of words
- Comprensión oral: Scanning oral data
- Lectura: Scanning written data
- Escritura: Writing a summary
Comparaciones culturales
- Cultura: Hispanos famosos
- Literatura: Sandra Cisneros
- Diferencias dialectales: Préstamos del inglés
CAPÍTULO 3: Estudiando español y otras materias
Geographic focus: México
Vocabulario en contexto
- Las universidades y las carreras
- Las materias académicas
- Los días de la semana, la hora y expresiones asociadas
Gramática en contexto
- The verb gustar and similar verbs
- Stem-changing verbs in the present tense
- Irregular verbs in the present tense
- Future with ir a + verb
Integración comunicativa
- Conversación: Fluency in conversation
- Pronunciación: Unstressed vowels in Spanish
- Lectura: Guessing from context
- Comprensión oral: Listening with a goal in mind
- Escritura: Writing a letter
Comparaciones culturales
- Cultura: La buena educación
- Literatura: Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz
- Diferencias dialectales: El vocabulario de la clase
CAPÍTULO 4: Buscando trabajo
Geographic focus: Cuba and la República Dominicana
Vocabulario en contexto
- Las profesiones, los oficios y la rutina diaria
- Las obligaciones: tener que
- Saber y conocer
Gramática en contexto
- Ser, estar and haber (hay)
- Ser and estar: Adjectives and location
- Present progressive: Another use of the verb estar
- Reflexive verbs and pronouns
- Reciprocal verbs
Integración comunicativa
- Lectura: Using Spanish-Spanish dictionaries
- Escritura: Using a thesaurus
- Conversación: Asking for and giving opinions
- Pronunciación: The letter “u” sounds like [u], not [yu]
- Comprensión oral: Understanding interview routines
Comparaciones culturales
- Cultura: La ética de trabajo
- Literatura: José Martí
- Diferencias dialectales: Inversion of word order
Apéndice A: Information Gap Activities
Apéndice B: Verb Charts
Apéndice C: Spanish-English Glossary
Apéndice D: English-Spanish Glossary
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