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Tapices

An Intermediate Spanish Language Textbook, Volume I (First Edition)
Alicia Muñoz Sánchez and Laura Marqués Pascual
©2026, 340 pages

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    Tapices: Manual de español intermedio, Volumen I es un método de español innovador que invita a los estudiantes a profundizar su dominio del idioma a través de temas, actividades y proyectos atractivos y actuales. Tapices promueve la comunicación auténtica y fomenta el pensamiento crítico mediante tareas integradas y proyectos finales. Diseñado para que los estudiantes amplíen sus habilidades más allá de la conversación, la gramática, el vocabulario y la cultura, el libro ofrece una perspectiva interdisciplinaria que les permite desarrollar competencias lingüísticas, comunicativas, académicas y multiculturales.

    Tapices incorpora pedagogías críticas, como la pedagogía antirracista y la conciencia crítica del lenguaje, para incentivar a los estudiantes a comprender y cuestionar las dinámicas de poder relacionadas con cuestiones sociopolíticas. Cada capítulo explora distintos temas como el lenguaje, la identidad, la salud, la política y el medio ambiente, y examina su impacto en las comunidades de habla hispana al tiempo que destaca perspectivas de grupos minoritarios poco representados históricamente.

    El libro de texto presenta cinco capítulos temáticos, cada con la misma estructura, para ayudar a los estudiantes a desarrollar competencias específicas de manera efectiva. Cada capítulo incluye una serie de objetivos, estrategias de conversación para diferentes actos de habla, textos originales para la comprensión lectora, componentes audiovisuales para la comprensión auditiva, análisis lingüístico centrado en vocabulario temático y gramática, y una variedad de recursos auténticos para entender mejor diversas perspectivas culturales.

    Tapices es ideal para cursos de español de nivel intermedio, especialmente para aquellos cursos que incorporan enfoques multidisciplinarios y se centran en desarrollar no solo habilidades lingüísticas, sino también de competencias culturales.



    Tapices: An Intermediate Spanish Language Textbook, Volume I is an innovative Spanish language textbook that invites students to deepen their language proficiency through engaging and current topics, activities, and projects. It promotes authentic communication and encourages critical thinking through integrated tasks and culminating projects. Developed to help students extend their skills beyond conversation, grammar, vocabulary, and culture, the book features an interdisciplinary perspective that allows them to build linguistic, communicative, academic, and multicultural competencies.

    The book incorporates critical pedagogies, including antiracist pedagogy and critical language awareness, to encourage students to understand and question power dynamics related to socio-political issues. Each chapter explores different topics such as language, identity, health, politics, and the environment, examining their impact on Spanish-speaking communities while highlighting historically underrepresented minority perspectives.

    The textbook features five thematic chapters, each with consistent structure and objectives, to help students effectively build specific competencies. Each chapter includes objectives, conversation strategies for a variety of speech acts, original texts for reading comprehension, video segments for listening skills, linguistic analysis focused on thematic vocabulary and grammar, and a variety of authentic resources to understand various cultural perspectives.

    Tapices is ideal for intermediate-level Spanish courses, especially those that incorporate multidisciplinary approaches and focus on developing not only language skills but cultural competence.

    Alicia Muñoz Sánchez gestiona la instrucción de español en el Linguistics Language Program en la Universidad de California, San Diego. Estudió en la Universidad Complutense de Madrid y la Universiteit van Amsterdam y obtuvo su doctorado en lingüística en la Universidad de California, San Diego.

    Alicia Muñoz Sánchez manages the Spanish instruction in the Linguistics Language Program at the University of California, San Diego. She studied at Universidad Complutense in Madrid and Universiteit van Amsterdam and earned her Ph.D. in linguistics at the University of California, San Diego.
    Laura Marqués Pascual es la directora del programa de español y portugués en la Universidad de California, Santa Bárbara. Posee un doctorado en lingüística hispánica de la Universidad de California, Davis, y una maestría en enseñanza de inglés como segunda lengua de Bowling Green State University.

    Laura Marqués Pascual is the language program director for Spanish and Portuguese at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She holds a Ph.D. in Hispanic linguistics from the University of California, Davis, and an M.A. in teaching English as a second language from Bowling Green State University.
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