Etapas Plus B1.1 / Stages Plus B1.1

ESPACIOS is a 2-semester intermediate Spanish program developed to accommodate the diverse needs of today's language learners and educators. ESPACIOS supports the many reasons students take Spanish by presenting grammar, vocabulary, and opportunities for communication within the exploration of a variety of different spaces: personal and public; historic and contemporary; cultural and social. The breadth of themes, countries, and content mediums exposes students to a more informed perspective to each given topic. Through this exploration, students expand on what they know about the...

El auge de la enseñanza del español ha supuesto una explosión sin precedentes de la diversidad lingüística en las aulas, lo que dificulta la tarea del profesor y pone en cuestión los métodos y materiales tradicionales. Esta situación se complica aún más cuando nos ocupamos del orden de las palabras, puesto que los libros existentes bien obvian el tema, bien lo tratan desde un punto de vista intuitivo. Este manual viene a llenar este vacío, ofreciendo una guía definitoria y clave de todos los puntos que pueden ser problemáticos en un tema tan complicado como el orden de las...

LOVE In The Taming of the Shrew, Katharina learns to love Petruchio only after she has learnt to be an obedient wife. Romeo and Juliet’s love is destined to end in tragedy. In Twelfth Night, love is romantic but also painful, while in Othello love turns into jealousy. And in the final story, Antony and Cleopatra’s passionate love has tragic consequences. Dossiers: The Life of William Shakespeare Courtship and Marriage in Elizabethan Times

The book offers a panchronic analysis of queísmo, one of the oldest variational phenomena in Spanish syntax, from the Classical era to this day. Within the framework of historical sociolinguistics and on the empirical basis of a broad corpus of texts close to the pole of immediacy, the study analyzes the factors that have determined this variation at various points in time.