Out of print

Gente: Nivel bÃ¡sico, Books a la Carte Edition, 3rd Edition

María J. de la Fuente, George Washington University

Ernesto J. Martín

Neus Sans

Gente: Nivel bÃ¡sico, Books a la Carte Edition, 3rd Edition — View larger

If You're an Educator

If You're a Student

Introducing Pearson+ 1500+ eTexts and study tools, all in one place. Subscriptions starting at $9.99/month.

K-12 educators: This link is for individuals purchasing with credit cards or PayPal only. Contact your Savvas Learning Company Account General Manager for purchase options.

Overview

Description

For courses in Introductory Spanish

Gente is the only truly task-based program that transports your students into an immersive environment. Students interact with authentic language from the Hispanic world through a series of carefully-sequenced communicative activities culminating in a real-life task. “Tasks” are collaborative projects that integrate speaking, listening, reading and writing to complete them with the skills that are needed to communicate effectively in the real world! With Gente, students learn by doing, communicate with a purpose and emerge as independent learners with the confidence to speak Spanish in a spontaneous, natural way.

Features

Task- and content-based basic Spanish learning program.
- Each task is divided into a pre-task, task and post-task activity, which makes it easier for the students to focus on the most important aspects of completing the task.
- With task-based language learning, students become active users of the language who participate in the learning process.
- Gente is a learner-centered manual, built entirely around a series of activities and pedagogical tasks that require student collaboration, interaction, and meaning negotiation.

Approach to grammar involves more than the study of grammar forms.
- Each activity encourages the establishment of connections between forms and meanings, as well as the use of those forms in context.
- This gives students a true understanding of the Spanish language and fosters awareness and discovery, by promoting attention to and noticing of grammar and other sociolinguistic aspects of the language.

Strong emphasis on interaction and collaborative learning.
- Collaborative learning is more than just an opportunity to practice the language; it is the way that language is learned.
- The Interacciones and Tarea sections encourage cooperativelearning in pairs and groups to further promote classroom-negotiated interaction.
- Emphasis on the development of discourse abilities, so students practice integrating structures in extended discourse throughout their language-learning process.

Intrinsic role of culture to develop a critical understanding of the cultures of Spanish-speaking countries.

Every chapter is content based and culturally oriented because it revolves around a specific Spanish-speaking country.
Nuestra gente section, found in each chapter, encourages students to make comparisons within the Hispanic world in order to develop an increased cross-cultural awareness.

New to This Edition

Fewer chapters for easier implementation of the Gente program.
- The third edition now has twenty chapters, instead of twenty-two, allowing for easier implementation and easier lesson planning in the traditional semester- and quarter-systems.
- Chapters 12 and 22 from the second edition have been eliminated.
- Puerto Rico has been inserted into Chapter 1 and the focus of Chapter 3 has become Venezuela.
- NEW! Hispanic/Latinos in the U.S. sections, now found in each chapter, promote awareness of the Spanish-speaking communities in the United States. These new activities foster comparisons and cross-cultural knowledge.

NEW! MySpanishLab™ saves time and improves results!
- Over 100,000 students have used MyLanguageLabs to improve their results in basic language courses. MySpanishLab, part of our MyLanguageLabs suite of online products, combines a learning management system with online instructional and practice materials for students. Students complete meaningful practice with built-in, point-of-need support to help them understand the important concepts that they will practice communicatively in class.

The grammar reference section, Consultorio gramatical, is now in English for easier student comprehension.
- The Consultorio gramatical, the grammar reference section with examples, has now been translated into English, in order to facilitate processing and understanding of the language.

The culminating task now includes a reflection step to move students from language usage to language analysis.
- At the end of each task, the new linguistic focus stage serves to clarify and review key structures, meanings, and functions, so that students have the opportunity to reflect upon the contents of the chapter and their overall language learning. Students go from language usage to language analysis.

Order

Pearson offers affordable and accessible purchase options to meet the needs of your students. Connect with us to learn more.

K12 Educators: Contact your Savvas Learning Company Account General Manager for purchase options. Instant Access ISBNs are for individuals purchasing with credit cards or PayPal.
Savvas Learning Company is a trademark of Savvas Learning Company LLC.

Digital

Paper

About the Author(s)

María J. de la Fuente graduated from Georgetown University in 1998 with a PhD in Spanish and Second Language Acquisition. She is currently an Associate Professor of Spanish at George Washington University, and has taught at Georgetown University, Duke University, and Vanderbilt University. Her research interests include the role of interaction in second/foreign language (L2) vocabulary acquisition, and the role of emerging technologies in language learning. The results of her research in these areas have appeared in refereed journals such as Studies in Second Language Acquisition , Computer Assisted Language Learning (CALL), and Language Teaching Research . Her current research focuses on the construct of task-based language learning. Prof. de la Fuente was the recipient of a 2008 Bender Teaching Award.

Get the eTexts you need starting at $9.99/mo with Pearson+