Mapas

Mapas

A communicative Spanish program that follows a project-based and content-focused approach!

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90.20 CAD 94.95 CAD
80.70 CAD 84.95 CAD
128.20 CAD 134.95 CAD
80.70 CAD 84.95 CAD
128.20 CAD 134.95 CAD
66.45 CAD 69.95 CAD
90.20 CAD 94.95 CAD
80.70 CAD 84.95 CAD

About MAPAS

MAPAS is a program aimed at North American teenage students learning Spanish at the introductory level. Its innovative design follows a project-based, content-focused approach. Its main goal is to stimulate students to build knowledge through explorative and expansive learning. The Spanish classroom becomes a space where students develop 21st-century skills, such as collaboration, creativity, critical thinking, and communication.

Why MAPAS?

  • A contemporary view of Hispanic cultures  through engaging texts, themes, and topics. Students are motivated to act and create in Spanish.
  • A pedagogical sequence in which grammar, vocabulary, and discourse work towards communication. Students are truly capable of speaking and creating in Spanish.
  • Groundbreaking content and language integration. Students use the language in interdisciplinary scenarios related to their own academic experiences, which helps them develop professional skills and prepare for future careers.
  • Intercultural competence, enabling critical thinking about essential questions from a multidimensional, contemporary, and inclusive perspective that is free of stereotypes.
  • An approach that is open to all learners and all types of intelligences (visual, linguistic, interpersonal, intrapersonal, etc.). In addition, its diverse and stimulating vision of cultural realities embraces all the identities and communities in the Hispanic world —and in the students' world as well.
  • Options for online, hybrid, and flipped classroom modes, which optimizes class time. Students can prepare independently before the class session thus maximizing classroom communication and collaboration.
  • MAPAS is the product of authentic student‑centered design. Students make decisions and create projects which are not only personally relevant but also academically, and they take a leading active role in their own learning.
  • A contemporary view of Hispanic cultures  through engaging texts, themes, and topics. Students are motivated to act and create in Spanish.
  • A pedagogical sequence in which grammar, vocabulary, and discourse work towards communication. Students are truly capable of speaking and creating in Spanish.
  • Groundbreaking content and language integration. Students use the language in interdisciplinary scenarios related to their own academic experiences, which helps them develop professional skills and prepare for future careers.
  • Intercultural competence, enabling critical thinking about essential questions from a multidimensional, contemporary, and inclusive perspective that is free of stereotypes.
  • An approach that is open to all learners and all types of intelligences (visual, linguistic, interpersonal, intrapersonal, etc.). In addition, its diverse and stimulating vision of cultural realities embraces all the identities and communities in the Hispanic world —and in the students' world as well.
  • Options for online, hybrid, and flipped classroom modes, which optimizes class time. Students can prepare independently before the class session thus maximizing classroom communication and collaboration.
  • MAPAS is the product of authentic student‑centered design. Students make decisions and create projects which are not only personally relevant but also academically, and they take a leading active role in their own learning.

MAPAS components

Textbook

Workbook

Annotated Teacher's Edition

Bundle Edition

Digital Edition

Workbook Spotlight: building proficiency

The Workbook contains an abundance of activities to practice and expand the grammar and the vocabulary presented in the Student Edition. 

All the activities are presented as tearable print-outs.

Annotated Teacher's Edition

The Annotated Teacher’s Edition of MAPAS contains an abundance of annotations created to complement various teaching styles, save time in class preparation and course management, and provide additional ideas on how to extend some activities

Our digital environment

The KWL Hub is a platform offering digital content and resources for students and teachers who work with MAPAS. It is designed with a clear purpose in mind: to improve teaching and learning experiences in K-12 environments with engaging content and helpful, user-friendly tools.

The platform offers easy access to a vast array of material in different formats to help students better grasp and practice contents, build their skills, develop cultural insights, and meet learning objectives. The KWL Hub is easy, flexible and intuitive for all users.

Technology that is affordable,
intuitive, mobile, and accessible to all!

For Students - The Spanish Hub

  • Digital Student’s book in HTML format, complete with videos, audio files, and narrated texts available in four different varieties of Spanish.
  • Grammar video tutorials with exercises
  • Pronunciation video tutorials with exercises and helpful tips
  • Auto-correcting
  • Interactive activities Interactive Quizzes
  • Thematic maps
  • Vocabulary and Frequent Word combination maps
  • Grammar and verb tables
  • Videos and transcripts
  • Audios and transcripts
  • Textos locutados (audio text narrated in four different regional variations of Spanish)
  • Textos mapeados (mapped versions of texts)
  • Spanish-English and English-Spanish Glossaries

For Instructors - The Spanish Hub

  • Digital copy of Student’s book with instructor annotations from the Teacher’s Edition (HTML format), along with videos, audio files, and narrated texts available in four different varieties of Spanish
  • Grammar video tutorials with corresponding assignments
  • Pronunciation video tutorials with corresponding assignments
  • Auto-correcting interactive activities you can assign to your students
  • Interactive Quizzes
  • Ready-to-use tests
  • 50 Multiple Choice Questions—one set of 50 questions for each unit Course calendars and sample lesson plans
  • Rubrics
  • Content creation tools
  • Teacher Resources: videos, additional instructional materials, etc.
  • Gradebook to evaluate and track students’ progress
  • Teacher’s Edition in ‘flipbook’ format
  • Student’s book in ‘flipbook’ format

Unique features

Among its many new features, we would like to draw your attention to a particular resource that sets MAPAS apart from other programs: textos mapeados and textos locutados available in different varieties of Spanish.

Textos mapeados

These texts have been transformed into “roadmaps” for students with the following three elements highlighted and color-coded:

  • Frequently-used word combinations and phrases
  • Common connectors and discourse markers
  • Structures that contain verbs, nouns, and adjectives with prepositions

By using this feature, students can exercise the recognition, acquisition and production of a linguistic repertoire that goes beyond simple words, allowing them to communicate with greater fluency and accuracy from the very beginning.

Textos locutados

These texts are read aloud by Spanish-speakers in four different varieties of Spanish: from Colombia, Mexico, Spain, and the Caribbean (Puerto Rico and Cuba).

This feature allows students to listen to the text while they read along, listen after they have read the text themselves, or practice and check their own Spanish pronunciation, among many other possibilities.

Would you like to listen to a sample of a text read in four different varieties of Spanish?

Contributors

Javier Pérez Zapatero

Barnard College (NY)

Lisa Merschel

Duke University (NC)

Francisco Rosales Varo

Columbia University (NY)

Liliana Paredes

Duke University (NC)

Joan Munné

Duke University (NC)

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West Canada

Manitoba, Nunavut, Saskatchewan, Alberta, British Columbia, Northwest Territories, Yukon

East Canada

Ontario, Quebec, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island, Newfoundland and Labrador 

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