Conéctate: Introductory Spanish

by Grant Goodall, Darcy Lear (Contributor)

The Story

Con�ctate is a fresh approach in every way. With its focus on the most critical language for communication, its active presentation of vocabulary and grammar, and its inclusion of real-world culture throughout, the program provides a unique framework for the Introductory Spanish course, with two separate but complementary goals in mind: learning to use the language and appreciating the world that it comes from.

What makes Con�ctate so unique?

A focused approach: The tailored scope and sequence of Con�ctate allows students to concentrate on what they can reasonably be expected to learn in an introductory course, allowing time for systematic review and recycling. This offers a solution to the Introductory Spanish programs that, in an effort to cover everything, include too much grammar and rush students through the curriculum without spending sufficient time for true learning or mastery. Active learning: Con�ctate carefully balances a mix of inductive and explicit vocabulary and grammar presentations, applying the concept of desirable difficulty throughout. This leads students to discover and retain the language, and avoids the common type of presentations that only allow for passive learning. Integration of culture: Language is culture and culture is language. This central idea shapes the way culture is treated in Con�ctate: not as something separate from the language acquisition process, but as something that is integral to the process. Students acquire cultural knowledge and understanding in a natural way as they learn how the language is used within the rich and diverse Spanish-speaking world.

608 pages, Hardcover

Published January 9, 2017

Reviews

[Marilyn Trixie · Rating 5 out of 5]

I actually read the 3rd edition, but goodreads didn't have that. This book was very informative and helpful to learn spanish with. It teaches concepts in the perfect order and explains it in a way that's very easy to understand. I had to take this for my college Spanish 1, 2, and 3 classes, so I had to buy the online version of the textbook, which allows you to do assignments for the concepts to help you understand better. This was the hardest part I'd say, not because the assignments themselves are hard, just the textbook creates so many that its easy to fall behind and can quickly burn you out trying to do 5 assignments on 1 single grammer concept, though maybe that was just the type of professors i had. I will say though, if you are looking for a way to learn spanish seriously, i highly recommend this book even if youre not in college. It starts off teaching very basic conjunction grammar and general phrases to use and by the end you've learned the preterite, imperfect, and subjunctive past, conditional and future tenses, and lots of vocab. It also provides lots of information about hispanic culture as youre learning, which i particularly enjoyed because it helps you connect/understand things better when you're watching a spanish movie or something because you understand the pop culture. Like i said highly recommend if you want to go from beginner to intermediate spanish. (my classes claimed it brings you from A1 - B1)