Endnotes
1. ACTFL (American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages.) Standards
for Foreign Language Learning. http://www.actfl.org/files/public/StandardsforFLLexecsumm_rev.pdf
2. Martin Gehner, "Bridges: The Art and Science for Creating Community Connections" (description of the Bridges seminar for the Yale National Initiative, New Haven, CT, January 10, 2008)
3. ACTFL (American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages)
http://www.actfl.org/i4a/pages/index.cfm?pageid=1
4. ACTFL´s Performance Descriptions. http://www.actfl.org/i4a/pages/index.cfm?pageid=3329
5. Ministerio de la Presidencia. Boletín Oficial del Estado. Estatutos de Autonomía. http://www.boe.es/g/es/iberlex/normativa/estatutos_autonomia.php (accessed July
26, 2008)
6. Alcántara means "the bridge" in Arabic.
7. Opus caementicium was the core of every Roman wall after the 2nd century BCE. Mostly walls made in opus caementicium were covered with other materials to make a more robust and workable surface. It was a construction technique using an aggregate, water and a binding agent. The aggregate functioned as a filler like gravel, chunks of bricks or stones and rubble. The binding agent is usually called mortar like lime, gypsum or pozzolana (nowadays (Portland) cement is used). http://www.romanaqueducts.info/aquasite/hulp/tekopusbreed.htm (accessed August 6, 2008)
8. I am of the idea that if the structure is not Roman, the bridge is not either, that is why I am inserting it in this section.
9. Leonardo Fernandez Troyano, "Variantes morfológicas de los puentes medievales españoles," Revista de Obras Públicas 3 (2005): 11.
10. Ronda: Puente Nuevo. http://www.turismoderonda.es/catalogo/esp/puentenuevo.htm (accessed July 27, 2008)
11. Centro de Interpretación del Puente Nuevo.
http://www.turismoderonda.es/museos/esp/puente.htm (accessed July 27, 2008)
12. Santiago Calatrava´s website: http://www.calatrava.com (accessed June 10, 2008)
13. Alexander Tzonis, Santiago Calatrava: The Complete Works- Expanded Edition (New York: Rizzoli, 2007)
14. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asterix
15. Rene De Goscinny and Albert Urdezo, Asterix en Hispania (Hachette, 1999)
16. Astérix: Sitio Oficial. http://es.asterix.com/ (accessed July 15, 2008)
17. A Cloze text is and exercise, test, or assessment consisting of a portion of text with certain words removed, where the student is asked to replace the missing words. Cloze tests require the ability to understand context and vocabulary in order to identify the correct words or type of words that belong in the deleted passages of a text. This exercise is commonly administered for the assessment of native and second language learning and instruction.
18. Ciudad de las Artes y las Ciencias. http://www.cac.es/home/?languageId=4
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