IMPORTANT NOTICE:
The Smart Sparrow Companion Website will not be available after December 31, 2020. It is free to access until that date.
Beginning July 1, 2020, workbooks with exercises from the Smart Sparrow Companion Website will be available for purchase, as will workbook answer keys. They will both be sold in ebook format only.
Standalone textbooks are available for purchase on this page.
Multimedia textbooks featuring the print textbook bundled with an access code to a Companion Website will not be sold after June 1, 2020. Instructors should alert students and campus bookstores to buy the textbook and not the multimedia for the Fall 2020 term. About Gramática para la composición, tercera ediciónIntegrating grammar and composition, this best-selling textbook guides the advanced student through progressively more complex types of writing by organizing the grammar lessons on a functionalist basis around the needs of composition. This innovative approach to teaching Spanish grammar and composition promotes systematic language development and enables students to strengthen their expressive and editing skills in the language in order to write more effectively and confidently.
Refined by years of classroom testing and analysis of the problems students encounter, Gramática para la composición features the following:
- A colorful design helps students navigate the book more easily and engage visual learning strategies.
- Readings for major composition exercises that stress authentic, connected discourse.
- A workbook with all of the homework exercises needed for practice (sold separately).
- Streamlined treatment of points of grammar, including an explanation for more than twelve functions of se with a rule of subject reflexivization.
For Teachers: Exam copies of the textbook, workbook, and workbook answer keys are available free of charge to instructors and must be requested separately. Textbook exam copies can be ordered on this page. To request digital exam copies of the workbook and workbook answer keys please visit the pages for each of those products.
--Philip W. Klein, Professor, University of Iowa "Hispania"
About the Author: M. Stanley Whitley is professor emeritus of Spanish and linguistics at Wake Forest University. He is the author of Spanish/English Contrasts: A Course in Spanish Linguistics, Second Edition (Georgetown University Press, 2002), coauthor of Teaching Spanish Grammar with Pictures: How to Use William Bull's Visual Grammar of Spanish (Georgetown University Press, 2010), and coauthor of Pronouncing English: A Stress-Based Approach with CD-ROM (Georgetown University Press, 2004).
Luis H. González is a professor of Spanish and linguistics at Wake Forest University. He completed his PhD at the University of California, Davis. His main areas of research are semantic roles, case, reflexivization, clitic doubling, differential object marking, dichotomies in languages, Spanish linguistics, and second language learning. He is the co-author of Gramática para la composición and author of Cómo entender y cómo enseñar por y para, Four Dichotomies in Spanish: Adjective Position, Adjectival Clauses, Ser/Estar, and Preterite/Imperfect, and The Fundamentally Simple Logic of Language: Learning a Second Language with the Tools of the Native Speaker.
