THIS IS THE FSI SPANISH PROGRAMMATIC COURSE VOLUME 1 AND VOLUME 2: THIS COURSE INCLUDES PROGRAMMATIC SET VOLUMES 1 AND 2 WITH STUDENT TEXT MANUALS. THERE ARE 45 LESSONS IN ALL WITH MP3 AUDIO INSTRUCTION THAT GOES ALONG WITH THE STUDENT TEXT MANUALS.

The FSI Spanish Programmatic Course Volume 1 and Volume 2 comprising this textbook and accompanying tape recordings together with an Instructor's Manual provides introductory learning materials for use by speakers of English who want to acquire a style of Spanish which is neither very formal nor overly casual. The term programmatic has been adopted to denote a course which uses some techniques of programmed instruction and is adaptable to classroom use to self-instruction or to combinations of the two. Part of each unit is in programmed form; other parts follow a more conventional audio-lingual format. In all parts the guiding principles have been simplicity and clarity of presentation characteristics which are required of materials to be used in self-instruction although the materials have been written with the teacher-classroom situation also in mind. This text is accompanied by an Instructor's Manual which contains the script of all the recorded portions. Since many of the recorded exercises do not appear in printed form in this the student's book the Instructor's Manual serves as a handy quick reference and guide for the teacher. Students who are using this text for self-instruction will find the manual a useful aid in checking the accuracy of their own performance. FSI Spanish Programmatic Course is designed primarily for the student who has access to a tape player for study purposes. If one is not available these materials should be used in the same manner as are more conventional materials. After pre-publication trials with over 200 students FSI is convinced that the rate of progress is greater and the quality of performance higher if the student has an opportunity to study new material before reporting to class through the use of facilities that allow him to listen to the recorded portions of the lessons. The authors like to believe that greater progress and higher quality performance are inherent in some small way in the materials themselves; however the general improvement in achievement is probably attributable more to technique than to anything else. For example a student who prepares an assignment by himself with his own tape player will normally be participating with the language at the enormous rate of 400 to 600 participations per hour. If the same material were being learned in a class shared with only three other students his participation rate would be reduced accordingly: to 100 to 150 per hour.