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Created through a student-tested, faculty-approved review process with hundreds of students and faculty, EXPLORACIONES CURSO INTERMEDIO is an engaging and accessible solution for your intermediate Spanish course that accommodates the diverse needs and motivations of today's learners at a value-based price. It is a student- and instructor-friendly program that supports today's contemporary students while building proficiency in all the language skills through communicative and contextualized activities. Consisting of 10 thematically based chapters designed to facilitate teaching for cultural and communicative competence, activities are varied, personal, and represent an approach that encourages students to engage at their current level while moving them to do more with their language learning in varied contexts. EXPLORACIONES CURSO INTERMEDIO includes a full suite of learning aids to help students achieve at the intermediate level, including tear-out chapter review study cards, self-quizzes, downloadable flash cards, and more.

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Margarita Casas was born in Mexico City, Mexico. She completed her bachelor's degree in sciences and techniques of communication in Guadalajara, Mexico. She holds two master's degrees from Colorado State University, one in Spanish literature with an emphasis on education, and the other in Teaching English as a Second Language. Currently, she is an instructor of Spanish at Linn-Benton Community College, where she served as Foreign Language Department chair for 11 years. She has collaborated on two textbooks prior to EXPLORACIONES and has published a novel, Italia En Cuatro Estaciones, winner of the first Literature contest of the Universidad de Guadalajara. She is an avid traveler who hopes to inspire her students to travel and see the world by themselves. Mary Ann Blitt began her Spanish studies at the age of 13 while living in Madrid, Spain. She received her B.A. in Spanish from the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs, and after spending a year studying at the Universidad de Granada, she returned to the university to obtain a teaching certificate. She later attended Colorado State University, where she received her master's degree in Spanish with interdisciplinary studies in French. After teaching Spanish at Metropolitan Community College-Maple Woods in Kansas City, and coordinating the Study Abroad Program there for several years, she joined the faculty at College of Charleston in 2014. Mary Ann is actively involved in professional development workshops; she travels whenever possible; and she has studied in Spain, Mexico, France, and Canada. She also has trained teachers of English as a Foreign Language in Asuncion, Paraguay. Mary T. Copple joined the Department of Modern Languages at Kansas State University in 2007; she currently coordinates the Spanish Language Program and teaches courses in linguistics, second language acquisition theory, and foreign language pedagogy. She also works with graduate students in the Second Language Acquisition (SLA) and the Teaching English as a Foreign Language (TEFL) MA degree programs. Working from a usage-based perspective, her research focuses primarily on Spanish linguistics in the areas of grammaticalization, language variation, language change, and sociolinguistics. She is currently researching patterns of use in intensification strategies in Spanish oral discourse. Dr. Copple also works with the Kansas State University Partnerships with the English departments at Kabul University and Balkh University in Afghanistan. As part of this project, she has twice enjoyed traveling to Afghanistan to participate in teacher training, teaching graduate workshops in teaching language through literature, second language acquisition theory, the teaching of advanced reading comprehension, and research methods.

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