Conectandonos

Conectandonos 3e is a culture-based first-year textbook. It



focuses on the analysis of language in its cultural context to develop students' communicative proficiency of Spanish as a second language and students' academic skills (critical thinking).
presents learners with themes and topics that lead them to actively contrast and compare linguistic structures and cultural perspectives both across Spanish varieties and between Spanish and English
promotes the development of a learner-centered environment in which students can analze data, find patterns of use and structure, make tentative hypotheses, and try them out
systematically introduces learners to significant and systematic regional variations.
provides students with explicit descriptions of strategies needed to develop useful language skills in reading, writing, speaking, listening, pronunciation and cultural analysis.