Dos mundos Student Edition with Online Learning Center Bind-in Passcode (McGraw-Hill World Languages) | 
 enlarge | Authors: Tracy Terrell, Magdalena Andrade, Jeanne Egasse, Elas Miguel Muoz
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages
Category: Book
Buy Used: $31.18
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Rating:  7 reviews
Sales Rank: 72593
Media: Hardcover
Edition: 6
Pages: 640
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 3
Dimensions (in): 10 x 8 x 1.1
ISBN: 0073046078
Dewey Decimal Number: 468.2421
EAN: 9780073046075
ASIN: 0073046078
Publication Date: June 28, 2005
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Product Description
Based on the Natural Approach, Dos mundos stresses the use of engaging activities and interesting readings in a natural and spontaneous classroom atmosphere. In this comprehension-based approach to learning language, the development of communicative language skills is the central goal, with formal grammar presentation and grammar practice at the service of communication. The text is designed so that class time can be devoted to exposing students to Spanish through creative activities and readings, allowing grammar explanations and exercises to be studied outside the classroom.
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 Book was in good shape. Took almost 3 weeks to recieve it. October 31, 2008
Robert Farina
If you are prepared to wait almost a month with this person. Then go ahead and buy it from them.
student review October 22, 2008
perpetual student (New York)
This is an excellent resource for Spanish students. I am an advanced student, taking a course to review and improve my written Spanish and grammar. The interactive portion is also well done.
 One of the best text books July 24, 2008
Jay (Indiana)
This is a great book to learn from, the workbook is also very helpful. This is one of the few college text books that I refused to sell back.
Thumbs up! November 18, 2007
Rob I. Horowitz (Albuquerque)
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
I've been using Dos Mundos in my Spanish III class this fall and it's been a quite positive experience. I'm a former English teacher, and a long time psychologist, so I have some feel for the teaching/learning dynamic of a text. I'm finding DM to be intelligently written and organized, with many different kinds of activities that build on and integrate what you're learning. I like the way history, art, pop culture, geography, politics, music, literature, etc. are interspersed throughout DM. There's cartoons, color, and a reasonably unstilted, good-hearted consciousness in the book. For those of us used to American textbooks which have been reduced to squirmy blandness by pressure groups leaning on state textbook purchasing agencies, it's a bit refreshing to encounter occasional perspectives on economic and political injustice, environmental exploitation, etc. Not that this is a particularly political book, it's just that these things are usually soooooo sanitized. Some people have complained about the lack of an English to Spanish dictionary in this book. Face it---you need to buy a little dictionary to have when you're reading DM and learning Spanish. No added-on dictionary section is going to be complete enough to meet your needs. You'll only be wasting time using it, since half the time the word you're looking for won't be there anyway. You might as well go to the dictionary in the first place. To sum it up: I like this book and I'm in the process of reading the seven chapters which were previously covered in Spanish I and II, which I didn't take in this sequence.
A good book that did the job May 22, 2007
Michelle C. Diaz
I needed this book for my spanish class and it provided me with the step by step instruction I needed.
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