Gente nivel básico, 2015 Release

We all learn better by doing.
Imagine trying to learn to play golf, swim, cook, computer skills — almost anything — through explanation “about” rather than immersion in the actual experience. When we learn any new skill, we need lots of structured input at the beginning as we begin to try out our fledgling abilities. As we become better at it, we produce more (output) and benefit from continued input (but less of it) as we refine our ability to do the task at hand. With Gente , students achieve a high level of oral proficiency as they learn by doing through a task-based approach. With Gente , students can point to and identify concrete things they can now do and talk about — in Spanish!
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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.