Building superior Spanish language proficiency through critical engagement with global challengesMastering Spanish through Global Debate is a onesemester textbook designed for students with Advancedlevel Spanish language skills moving toward Superior. Over the course of each chapter students gain linguistic and rhetorical skills as they prepare to debate on broad timely topics including environmental consciousness immigration wealth distribution surveillance and privacy cultural diversity and education. Discussion of compelling issues promotes not only linguistic proficiency but social responsibility through critical engagement with complex global challenges. Each chapter includes topicspecific reading texts and position papers by writers from various Spanishspeaking countries. In addition to pre and postreading activities students benefit from lexical development exercises rhetorical methods sections and listening exercises with audio available on the Press website. An online instructors manual provides pedagogical recommendations and an answer key.