Audioscript to accompany Destinos

This highly innovative beginning Spanish text is both task-based (requiring students to use Spanish to complete specific goals or tasks) and content-based, including readings from a variety of disciplines. ¿Sabías que...? represents the practical application of the theories and research presented in Lee and VanPatten's methods text, Making Communicative Language Teaching Happen (a natural companion volume for instructors using this text). The new edition is accompanied by a new CD-ROM, a new Online Learning Center, and more!

This new Beginning Spanish text is a brief version of the successful ¿Sabías que…?, perfectly designed for those programs that are interested in an innovative task-based approach but whose curriculum necessitates a briefer text.

"This volume (written entirely in Spanish, with English abstracts) contains 17 studies on a variety of aspects of Spanish in the United States, including topics such as: a socio-demographic analysis of the US Hispanic population, bilingual first language acquisition of English and Spanish, cross-generational maintenance of Spanish, steps toward a dialectology of US Spanish, dialect contact in the United States, conceptual convergence with English in the speech of US Hispanics, Spanglish as an identity marker, language policies in the US health delivery system to Hispanics, and several...

"The series is set around themes relating to children's everyday experiences and environment such as greeting friends, colours, songs, clothes, foood and drink, and parts of the body. The series is set in a Caribbean context to make the learning of Spanish relevant to students across the Caribbean." -- Back Cover.

Las primeras traducciones europeas del Quijote del profesor Germán Colón es una versión traducida y corregida por el mismo autor de su libro ya clásico Die ersten romanischen und germanischen Ueberstzungen des Don Quijote [Bern: Francke, 1974]. Con un análisis inteligente y profundo, se comparan y contrastan distintas traducciones a diversas lenguas románicas y germánicas de la obra de Cervantes realizadas en el siglo XVII.

La influencia del inglés sobre el español es uno de los fenómenos sociolingüísticos más destacados desde mediados del siglo XX en adelante. La creciente presencia del área anglosajona, así como la estandarización del modelo de vida occidental, fuertemente fomentado por los EE.UU. de Norteamérica, hacen del inglés la lengua de mayor protagonismo internacional. En el presente volumen el lector encontrará un estado de la cuestión sobre este asunto: los factores extralingüísticos que ayudan a entender la complejidad del fenómeno, las posturas adoptadas por los distintos estudiosos ...