Tapices

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 chapters includes objectives, introductions to communicative functions, original texts for reading comprehension, video components 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 competencies.