Quia WBLM Access Card Part A for Sol y viento

by Bill VanPatten

Overview

McGraw-Hill is proud to partner with Quia™ in the development of CENTRO, our online media center for languages (www.mhcentro.com). CENTRO, a comprehensive learning management system, helps instructors to manage their courses with robust communication tools, record-keeping that can be imported to Blackboard and other CMS platforms, integration of instructor resouces such as the Instructor’s Manual and Testing Program, Digital Transparencies and PowerPoint™ slides, and provides instructors with the ability to customize or add their own content.
CENTRO for Sol y viento contains:
Sol y viento Digital Edition
Online Manual de actividades, Vol. 1. Covers Lessons: Preliminar – 4B
Sol y viento film
Diagnostic study plan
Animated grammar tutorials
Link to Online Learning Center
Tech support: www.mhcentro.com/support

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780077397760
Publisher:	McGraw-Hill Higher Education
Publication date:	01/12/2011
Edition description:	Access Card
Product dimensions:	5.70(w) x 8.20(h) x 0.20(d)

About the Author

Bill VanPatten is Professor and Director of Applied Linguistics and Second Language Studies at Texas Tech University. His areas of research are input and input processing in second language acquisition and the effects of formal instruction on acquisitional processes. He has published widely in the fields of second language acquisition and language teaching and is a frequent conference speaker and presenter. His publications include Making Communicative Language Teaching Happen (with James F. Lee, 2003,McGraw-Hill), From Input to Output: A Teacher’s Guide to Second Language Acquisition (2003, McGraw-Hill), Processing Instruction: Theory, Research, and Practice (2004, Lawrence Erlbaum Associates) and most recently, Theories in Second Language Acquisition: An Introduction (with Jessica Williams, 2007, Lawrence Erlbaum Associates). He is the lead author of Vistazos, ¿Sabías que...?, Destinos and Sol y viento.
Dr. VanPatten is the 2007 recipient of the Anthony Papalia Award for Excellence in Teacher Education, awarded jointly by ACTFL and NYSAFLT.
When not engaged in academic activities, he writes fiction and performs stand-up comedy. He has recently published his first work of fiction, a collection of short stories titled Chicago Tales, published by Outskirts Press (2007).