Intermediate Spanish

This textbook is designed for an Intermediate Spanish course and is part of an initiative to create online material for students which is free and accessible to everyone. The textbook is comprised of a series of  task-based communicative activities that focus on the form so that students can acquire acts of speech, vocabulary, and grammar in context and create conversations related to the topics discussed. The author has developed modified Integrated Performance Assessments or IPA (Adair-Hauck, B. et al. 2006 and Glisan et al. 2007) and Presentation, Attention, Co-Construction, Extension Models or PACE (Adair-Hauck & Donato, 2002) from various stories, songs, cartoons, movies, articles, and other authentic materials that enhance understanding and use of language expressions in context. Students are asked to listen and analyze the Reading text and to produce a presentational task based on it. By using IPA and PACE activities, which include listening and reading various songs, articles, stories, dialogues, and movies, students are exposed to speakers of various Spanish-speaking countries and learn to appreciate cultural and linguistic diversity. A final goal of this textbook is to foster equitable and inclusive learning by asking students to complete projects using their own experiences and knowledge in order to discuss these topics in a manner that is relevant to them.

The author is the recipient of a Pennsylvania Grants for Open and Affordable Learning (PA GOAL) Grant, funded by the Governor’s Emergency Education Relief Fund (GEER) and administered by the Pennsylvania Academic Library Consortium, Inc. (PALCI).