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by Karla P. Zepeda-Wenger (Editor)
This textbook provides an innovative approach to support students' learning and acquisition of Spanish through ten plays (all presented in Spanish) from Spain and Latin America. It offers direct interaction through realistic discourse from plays that also present current topics, thus facilitating class conversations. Each chapter provides an introduction to the play and author, pre-reading activities, acting exercises, reading comprehension and literary analysis questions, writing prompts, and topics for reflection on culture. Additional role-playing, improvisation, scriptwriting and non-verbal games help to acquaint the learner with diverse forms of social interactions. Este libro de textos proporciona un acercamiento innovador para el aprendizaje y adquisicion del espanol mediante el empleo de diez piezas dramaticas procedentes de Espana y America Latina. El libro ofrece la oportunidad de interactuar con el lenguaje hablado de las obras, las que a su vez presentan temas de actualidad, estimulando asi la practica de la conversacion en el contexto de una clase. Cada capitulo proporciona una introduccion a la obra y su autor/a, actividades de lectura, ejercicios de actuacion, preguntas de lectura y comprension, preguntas de analisis literario y consignas para la redaccion y la reflexion sobre la cultura. Ademas de esto, los ejercicios de role-playing, improvisacion, escritura dramatica y juegos de comunicacion no verbal posicionan al alumnado a entrar en contacto con diversas situaciones comunicativas.
Author Biography
Karla P. Zepeda-Wenger is an associate professor of Spanish at Purdue University Fort Wayne in Indiana. She has been teaching Spanish for 21 years, including Spanish conversation and composition, Peninsular literature, and Hispanic culture and film. Mónica B. Botta is an associate professor of Spanish at Washington and Lee University. She teaches at all levels, from survey courses to seminars on Latin American theater and first-person narratives, among others. Her articles on theatrical chronicles in the 19th century and Latin American theater have appeared in Romance Notes, Hispanófila, Romance Quarterly, Sumposium, and Latin American Theater Review.
