Portales 2.0: Introductory Spanish

What sets this program apart?

Portales deepens and enhances the student learning experience with its unique progression of interactive instructional activities, personalized diagnostics, and groundbreaking language learning technology such as speech recognition. The learning activities are designed to keep students engaged every step of the way with dynamic vocabulary tutorials in the target language, interactive grammar tutorials, and culturally rich videos.

New in this edition:

A Project-Focused learning track which incorporates a theme-based project into every lesson

Group Chat and Individual Recording Activities that allow single or multiple students to record a video production exercise

Fotonovela videos that follow a group of students living in Spain and explore both language and relationships in an engaging way

84 Panorama cultural videos that put Spanish language in context from South America, to Central America, to Spain and beyond

Student Portfolio is an integrated digital tool that allows students to curate a collection of work showcasing their language learning progress, growth, and achievements over time. These collections illustrate the student’s experience and the products of their learning, becoming meaningful through reflection, which facilitates students' understanding of their learning and what they can do with the language.

The Portales advantage

Portales includes a variety of features that streamline faculty work and give students direction to independently explore, practice, and gain comfort learning and practicing Spanish so that they are prepared for in-class conversation.

This new edition brings new activity types and online group work—among many other updates—so that students build their proficiency through practice and collaboration with their peers.