About the Book
NOTE: This edition features the same content as the traditional text in a convenient, three-hole-punched, loose-leaf version. Books a la Carte also offer a great value-this format costs significantly less than a new textbook.
An exciting new design. The newly designed ¡Arriba!, 7th edition, gives students and instructors a more modern, clean, and user-friendly experience.
Vibrant new chapter openers. Each chapter opens up with Learning Objectives, a fine art image, and a Club cultura video shot on location in the region of focus. Students can explore online details of the art piece and reflect on how the images relate to cultural products, practices, and perspectives.
Improved Logical sequence of activities. Activities in both Vocabulario and Estructuras move consistently from meaningful, form-focused reception to communicative self-expression.
Simplified, easy to implement info-gap activities. !Necesito información! activities have straightforward directions that quickly get students on task to problem-solve or role play situations related to the chapter cultural and thematic focus.
Improved vocabulary presentations. Based on thoughtful feedback from instructors, the revised Vocabulario sections purposely integrate and highlight key vocabulary into the introductory contextualized dialogues. In addition, the revised Vocabulario lists provide a more cohesive presentation of high-frequency expressions.
Revised grammar presentations. While keeping the same thoroughness, the streamlined and visually appealing grammar explanations in Estructuras help students grasp concepts more easily as they study on their own.
New self-assessment in presentations. !Comprendes!, a quick self-check activity in each vocabulary and grammar presentation, helps students confirm that they are ready to move forward with more complex and communicative activities, or that they should review the presentation again. !Recuerdas! activities, placed before appropriate grammar presentations, help students connect previous knowledge to what they are about to learn.
About the Author: About our authors
Eduardo Zayas-Bazán is a native of Camaguey, Cuba. He holds an M.S. in foreign languages from Kansas State Teachers College, Emporia, KS, and a Doctor en Derecho degree from Universidad Nacional José Martí, Havana, Cuba. He is a Professor Emeritus in Foreign Languages from East Tennessee State University, where he was chair of the Foreign Language Department from 1973 to 1993. Over the course of his distinguished career, Zayas-Bazán has received numerous awards in recognition of his professional achievements and has held noteworthy positions within many organizations dedicated to teaching Spanish. In addition to writing numerous articles in regional and national journals, he is the coauthor, coeditor and translator of 17 books, including ¡Arriba! Comunicación y cultura and Conexiones, published by Pearson.
Susan M. Bacon (Ph. D. Ohio State University) is Professor Emerita of Spanish at the University of Cincinnati and former Director of UC International Programs where she promoted and supervised all education abroad for the University. In the Department of Romance Languages, she served at various times as Director of the Basic Spanish Program, Undergraduate Director, Graduate Director and Assistant Department Head. In addition to her administrative duties, she taught Spanish language and culture, teaching methodology and second-language acquisition. Her research interests include child and adult second-language acquisition, and the processing of authentic input. She is recipient of the prestigious Paul Pimsleur Award for Research in Education. She was Project Director for a 4-year grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities in Mexico, and a Fulbright-Robles Scholar in Mexico. She is primary researcher for a considerable number of empirical studies and has coauthored several elementary and intermediate-level Spanish texts including ¡Arriba! Comunicación y cultura, Conexiones and Leyendas del mundo hispano, all published by Pearson.
Holly J. Nibert (Ph.D. University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign) is Associate Professor of Hispanic Linguistics and Director of the Spanish and Portuguese Language Programs at The Ohio State University. Prior to joining Ohio State, Dr. Nibert served as Director of the First-Year Spanish Language Program at Western Michigan University where she was awarded the WMU Distinguished Teaching Award. Nibert's research interests include phonology and phonetics, the acquisition of a second-language (L2) sound system, and the principles and practices of L2 classroom instruction, instructor training and language program direction. She has numerous publications on Spanish intonation and is coauthor on ¡Arriba! and the intermediate-level program, Día a día.
