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"Auténtico is a comprehensive Spanish language curriculum for middle grades and high school. It immerses students in authentic Spanish language and cultural experiences through text, video, audio, and online learning. Frequent exposure to authentic resources increases engagement, improves reading proficiency, and gives students confidence to take learning beyond the classroom. Auténtico meets ACTFL World-Readiness Standards for Learning Languages, providing a powerful link between communication and culture"--Publisher.

An exciting new entry in the beginning Spanish market, Entrevistas (Interviews) fulfills the market demand for an innovative treatment of culture within a four-skills approach. A manageable fifteen chapters, Entrevistas has as its principal objective the development of communicative language proficiency. Entrevistas sets itself apart from other first-year Spanish texts through the integration and treatment of authentic (real) speech samples in the text, video, audio, and website.

A scholarly, analytical study of popular linguistics in Costa Rica, by noted UCR scholar. Includes social and psychological background, methodology of study, phonetics, grammar, lexicography, regional differences, and foreign influences.