Spanish for Educators (Book only) (Paperback)

by Wiliam C. Harvey M.S. (Author) "As a beginner in the language, your first step is to learn what Spanish sounds like..." (more)
Key Phrases: ehn ehl, kohn ehl, ehs oon (more...)

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Product Description
Author and language teacher William Harvey demonstrates that you don't need to sit through lectures on grammar and verb conjugations in order to pick up a basic working knowledge of conversational Spanish. If you're a teacher or other professional educator, and if many of your students and their parents are Hispanic, you owe it to them and to yourself to develop some ability to comprehend and make yourself understood in normal idiomatic Spanish.

This book will help you learn to converse in Spanish when dealing with issues of health care, college and career guidance, classroom instruction to young and older children, educational administration, extracurricular activities, and much more.

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SPANISH FOR EDUCATORS * Second Edition

If you’re a teacher, a counselor, or an administrator and you regularly communicate with students and parents whose first language is Spanish . .

And if you currently have little or no skill in conversational Spanish . . .

Open this book and discover how easy it is to learn.

Spanish for Educators will familiarize you with often-used phrases that relate to everyday school situations. You’ll find Spanish words and phrases pertaining to guidance counseling, health issues, career guidance, college assistance, and extracurricular activities. Separate chapters emphasize the most useful Spanish words and phrases for dealing with preschool and elementary-grades students. Following chapters focus on conversational Spanish for educators on middle school and high school levels. Here’s a quick, informal, and practical way to get started in the conversational Spanish you need as an educator. --This text refers to the Paperback edition.

Product Details

• Paperback: 320 pages
• Publisher: Barron's Educational Series; Book only edition (August 1, 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0764104969
• ISBN-13: 978-0764104961
• Product Dimensions: 9.8 x 8.1 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.8 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #488,193 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Useful if you have had prior experience w/Spanish., October 28, 2003

By	Rocco B. Rubino "Rocco R." (Ohio) - See all my reviews (TOP 1000 REVIEWER)

As a special education teacher in an inner city school, I am in constant contact w/the parents of my students, most of whom are of Hispanic descent.

Since I have had prior experience w/Spanish, I am able to make good use of this resource. The authors provide vocabulary and phrases for a pretty good number of school situations. I think they wrote this book under the presupposition that the user would construct their own sentences w/the vocabulary and phrases provided.

Which leads me to one of the big weaknesses of this book. The authors would have done well to use conversation vignettes to introduce the topics they cover as giving the reader a context for use would go a long way to assimilating this vocabulary. As it stands now, this book is a glorified dictionary and phrase book; there was a better way to present a book of this nature that would have been far more useful than what it is in its current form.

11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A must have for any educator of Spanish speaking students., May 8, 2004

By	Susan L. (Birmingham, AL United States) - See all my reviews

I found this book to be very helpful as a resource in my classroom. With several Spanish speaking students (preschool) I repeatedly returned to this book for answers. I do have some knowledge of Spanish. I can see how this book could not be as helpfull to an educator with little or no Spanish language background. It was very relevant to school situations. I have used it as a resource when dealing with students from 2 years old to 20 years old. Every school should be required to have this wonderful book available to its educators.

10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Translated educational vocabulary commonly used in schools., February 4, 1999

By	[e-mail] (Texas) - See all my reviews

This easy to use book helps even the Spanish illerate speak and converse. With easy to access vocabulary and phrases, you will be on your way to making your Spanish speaking parents and students feel welcome in your school. Everything from discipline to the clinic is covered in this book. I would like to see a copy in all of our school buildings to make easy references and translations for our parents and students.