Conexiones Comunicación y cultura -- Loose-Leaf Edition

For courses in Intermediate Spanish

Bring a broad learner audience to a true intermediate level of Spanish proficiency
Conexiones: Comunicación y cultura provides a robust Intermediate Spanish program that brings a broad learner audience to a true intermediate level of proficiency. Authors Eduardo Zayas-Bazán, Susan Bacon, and Dulce García provide continuity from first- to second-year Spanish by way of updated, engaging, and pedagogically sound materials. In addition to the text’s hallmark integrated presentation of language and culture, the 6th Edition provides Integrated Performance Assessments, updated chapter openers, and a fresh design.

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Eduardo Zayas-Bazán is a native of Camaguey, Cuba. He holds an M.S. in foreign languages from Kansas State Teachers College, Emporia, KS, and a Doctor en Derecho degree from Universidad Nacional José Martí, Havana, Cuba. He is a Professor Emeritus in Foreign Languages from East Tennessee State University, where he was chair of the Foreign Language Department from 1973 to 1993.
 
Susan Bacon (Ph. D. Ohio State University) is Professor Emerita of Spanish at the University of Cincinnati and former Director of UC International Programs where she promoted and supervised all education abroad for the University. In the Department of Romance Languages she served at various times as the Director of the Basic Spanish Program, Undergraduate Director, Graduate Director, and Assistant Department Head.
 
Dulce García, PhD Georgetown University, is an Assistant Professor of Foreign Languages and Literatures at the City College of New York, CUNY, where she specializes in late Medieval and Golden Age Spanish Literature, Spanish linguistics, critical theory, and foreign language pedagogy. She is the director of the CCNY-Spain Summer Program, and received CCNY's “Outstanding Teaching Award” for 2007.

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Preliminar: ¡Conectémonos!
1. Modas que van y vienen     
2. Por un mundo más verde    
3. Así se mueve el mundo     
4. Somos lo que somos     
5. ¡Luz, cámara, acción!     
6. Todos somos uno     
7. Cuerpo sano, mente sana    
8. Buscándonos la vida
9 ¡A pasarlo bien!
10. Mañana es hoy