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Dr. George Greenia’s Spanish language textbook Generaciones has been used in advanced secondary schools, colleges, and universities throughout the United States. It takes a more practical approach to the daunting task of learning a foreign language by using all forms of speaking and writing—from the most conventional techniques of academic writing and oral presentation to the more casual ways of arguing, joking, and passing notes.

Generaciones is an advanced composition and conversation text for college-level Spanish. It has a process approach to writing and is designed with suggestions for college teachers on how to draw on writing skills developed in high school AP Spanish programs. Students gather ideas by reading from current articles in the Spanish press worldwide.

This enriching text is filled with brainstorming exercises on vocabulary building and collaborative writing, and presents opportunities for peer review all along the way.

In addition, Generaciones is appended with an AP Spanish test from ETS with official scoring rubrics and also with actual essay questions from past AP national exams.

A manual de ejercicios with chapter-by-chapter exercises, listening exercises, text and manual editing exercises, and an instructor’s manual are free for adopting instructors.