Puntos de partida: An invitation to Spanish - Hardcover

Marty Knorre was formerly Associate Professor of Romance Languages and Coordinator of basic Spanish courses at the University of Cincinnati, where she taught undergraduate and graduate courses in language, linguistics, and methodology. She received her Ph.D. in foreign language education from The Ohio State University in 1975. Dr. Knorre is coauthor of Cara a cara and Reflejos and has taught at several NEH Institutes for Language Instructors. She received a Master of Divinity at McCormick Theological Seminary in 1991.

Gabriela C. Zapata is an assistant professor in Spanish applied linguistics, and the language program coordinator for the Department of Modern Languages and Cultural Studies at the University of Alberta. She received her PhD in Spanish applied linguistics as well as an MA in teaching English as a second language at Pennsylvania State University. A native of Argentina, she also earned a BA and a teaching certificate in teaching English as a foreign language at the Instituto Enseñanza Superior "Olga Cossettini" in Rosario, Argentina.

Gabriela is currently responsible for all pedagogical and administrative aspects of the Spanish Language Program at the University of Alberta, and teaches graduate and undergraduate courses in Spanish as a foreign language, applied and Hispanic linguistics, second language acquisition, and second/foreign language pedagogy. Before assuming her current position, she also taught in Spanish language programs at Penn State University, the University of Illinois/Urbana-Champaign, and at Tulane University in the U.S. Her research interests include second language acquisition, bilingualism, first language attrition, computer-assisted language learning (CALL) in second/foreign language classrooms, language program direction, and materials development.

Text: English, Spanish