Atando Cabos: Curso Intermedio de Espanol - Softcover

Biografía del autor

Maria Gonzalez-Aguilar was born in Barcelona, grew up and graduated from the "Profesorado" in Argentina, and completed her postgraduate education at Middlebury College. She taught for ten years in different colleges and universities, including, MIT, the University of Oregon, Tufts University and Middlebury College. Maria started publishing with PH in 1983 with the first edition of "Arriba "and "Mosaicos." Afterward, while working at MIT she created ""Paradoja," "an interactive CD-ROM that deals with the situation of women in Latin America. Maria is a professor of the "Instituto Cervantes" in Paris, where she is responsible for general language courses and for the coordination and teaching of pedagogical workshops for Spanish professors. Maria also teaches at two of the most prestigious French ""Grands ecoles"": ""Ecole Polytechnique"" and ""Haute ecole de Commerce,"" She is responsible for the development and teaching of special courses, such as ""Sabor Latino"" Latin-American foods through music, literature, movies and art or ""Actualidad hispana,"" a practical course that brings students in contact with Latin-American reality through the analysis of media. Maria's passions are traveling, reading, teaching and cooking. She lives in the suburbs of Paris with her husband and son, in a house full of "sabor latino." Marta Rosso-O'Laughlin, M.A., a native speaker from Argentina, holds a degree in applied linguistics form the University of Reading in England. She studied second-language methodology at the University of London and holds degrees from the National University of Cordoba in Argentina. For the last nineteen years, Marta has been the chief coordinator of the Spanish-languageprogram at Tufts University in Medford, Massachusetts, where she also teaches all levels of Spanish-language courses including linguistics. She is the author of many books for the teaching of Spanish for high school and college and co-author of the second edition of "Atando cabos," Professor Rosso-O'Laughlin conducts teacher-training workshops and courses at several of the universities in the Boston area, at national conferences, and at teaching institutions abroad. She brings a wealth of experience and a rich cultural background to her teaching.