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Puntos de partida: An Invitation to Spanish (Student Edition) Hardcover – 16 February 2008

Spanish edition by Marty Knorre (Author), Thalia Dorwick (Author), Ana María Pérez-Gironés (Author),
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As the best-selling introductory Spanish textbook in the United States, Puntos de partida has long been a favorite of instructors across the country. For this new edition, the authors and editors of Puntos have turned to those very instructors to help formulate a plan that would respond to the needs of a changing discipline. We reached out to more than 275 students and instructors across the country, and the result is a thoroughly revised edition that we are confident will address new needs and preferences while continuing to provide the solid foundation in communicative language development that is the hallmark of Puntos de partida.

Puntos de partida is available with CENTRO a portal learning management system through which various digital components, including Quia™ Workbooks and Laboratory Manuals and Quia e-books, are delivered. This McGraw-Hill exclusive system offers a single log-in authentication for students and a single gradebook for instructors.

With Puntos de partida student and instructors will benefit from several online resources available in CENTRO:

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Quia e-book
Voice Board
Quia Workbook
Quia Lab Manual (includes the full laboratory audio program)
Puntos de partida video program (free with purchase of any of the Quia products)
Puntos de partida ActivityPak (free with purchase of any of the Quia products)
Spanish Grammar Tutorials (free with purchase of any of the Quia products)
Link to the Online Learning Center:
http://www.mhhe.com/puntos8

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Grammar PPT slides
Overhead transparencies of line art from the textbook
PDF version of the Instructor’s Manual/Resource Kit
Customizable Word-file version of the Testing Program
Cultural PPT slides of the 21 countries of the Spanish-speaking world
Image Bank including more than 100 photos of the Spanish-speaking world

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    688 pages
  2. Language
    Spanish
  3. Publisher
    McGraw-Hill Professional
  4. Publication date
    16 February 2008
  5. Dimensions
    20.32 x 2.54 x 25.4 cm
  6. ISBN-10
    0073534420
  7. ISBN-13
    978-0073534428
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Marty Knorre was formerly Associate Professor of Romance Languages and Coordinator of basic Spanish courses at the University of Cincinnati, where she taught undergraduate and graduate courses in language, linguistics, and methodology. She received her Ph.D. in foreign language education from The Ohio State University in 1975. Dr. Knorre is coauthor of Cara a cara and Reflejos and has taught at several NEH Institutes for Language Instructors. She received a Master of Divinity at McCormick Theological Seminary in 1991.

Thalia Dorwick has taught at Allegheny College, California State University (Sacramento), and Case Western Reserve University, where she received her Ph.D. in Spanish in 1973. She has been recognized as an Outstanding Foreign Language Teacher by the California Foreign Language Teachers Association. Dr. Dorwick is the coauthor of several textbooks and the author of several articles on language teaching issues.

Ana Marï¿a Pï¿rez-Gironï¿s is an adjunct Professor of Spanish oat Western University, Middletown, Connecticut. She received a Licenciatura en Filologï¿a Anglogermï¿nica from the Universidad de Sevilla in 1985, and her M.A. in General Linguistics from Cornell University in 1988. Her professional interests include second language acquisition and the integration of cultural competence and technology in language teaching

William R. Glass is the Publisher for World Languages at McGraw-Hill Higher Education. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in Spanish Applied Linguistics with a concentration in Second Language Acquisition and Teacher Education (SLATE). He was previously Assistant Professor of Spanish at The Pennsylvania State University where he was also Director of the Language Program in Spanish. He has published numerous articles and edited books on issues related to second language instruction and acquisition.

Hildebrando Villarreal is Professor of Spanish at California State University, Los Angeles, where he teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in language and linguistics. He received his Ph.D. in Spanish with an emphasis in Applied Linguistics from UCLA in 1976. Professor Villarreal is the author of several reviews and articles on language, language teaching, and Spanish for Native Speakers of Spanish. He is the author of ï¿A leer! Un paso mï¿s, an intermediate textbook that focuses on reading skills.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ McGraw-Hill Professional; 8th edition (16 February 2008)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ Spanish
  • Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 688 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0073534420
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0073534428
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 20.32 x 2.54 x 25.4 cm
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Nevada Bob
5.0 out of 5 stars Good Prices and Availability for College and University Textbooks
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There are better ways to learn Spanish than this book, but this is the one that has a monopoly at the schools. Textbooks are beginning to disappear for advanced courses in foreign languages. I have versions 5 and 8 of McGraw and Hill's "Puntos de partida" in my personal library and I fail to see any real significant changes in the text. ( Language is language). Perhaps I am old school but I like to have hard copy of what I have studied. More colleges are moving to e-books for the same price of the textbook and when you are through with the course you have nothing but your notes. I use to think all my brains were in my university text books, but they are not, however I do refer to my old textbooks years after I took the course. Thankgoodness for Amazon for they have become both the buyer and seller of new and used college and university textbooks plus many free e-books. Even two years after my Spanish class I am still using my hardcopy of the textbook. It is so nice to go off some place strange and study with a book.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Good condition. For college Spanish classes, more than independent study.
Reviewed in the United States on 11 November 2022
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This was the required textbook for my college Spanish classes. What can I say, it got the job done! It's well written and not difficult to navigate the lessons in a class. On its own, I wouldn't recommend it for independent study, though, it's catered more to classroom settings.
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LeePeiCheng
5.0 out of 5 stars Well orgnized Textbook
Reviewed in the United States on 3 May 2013
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I am a native Chinese speaker who have been living in States over 11 year. I understand how hard it is to pick up a second language. The personal reason that I gave this book a five-start is mainly because it come with a very wealthy online resource which including Textbook audio, Textbook answer key,grammar tutorials, and interactive verb charts. Being a auditory learner, having these online textbook audio is very important to me. Because this is a well organized book that come with all these online materials, I saved myself some $ by no longer need to take Spanish class at the local community college,plus the time for driving and the expense for gas. thank you. :)
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Hicksfam
4.0 out of 5 stars Great as long as you are in a class.
Reviewed in the United States on 7 September 2011
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I would recommend this book for people who are enrolled in a Spanish class.However, if you are not in a class the book would be very hard to follow. It leaves a lot of room for instructors to put in the information they want you to learn that goes along with what the book is teaching you. It would be very difficult to learn just from the book. I love the book and will be using it for my next 2 Spanish classes.
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drivera89
3.0 out of 5 stars Good book but a little too Pricey.
Reviewed in the United States on 11 July 2010
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I am currently using this book for my Spanish 1 and 2 class and it is a help especially the dictionary in the back! I would def recommend getting the lab manual and the workbook with it though because if you are new to the spanish language it can be very difficult to keep up and practice makes all the difference. The book alone is great however the price is a little ridiculous! Especially since spanish varies in every country so some parts of the book are inconsistant with what we are taught and also their are words spelt incorrectly throughout the book. My professor is constantly correcting it.
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