Vistazos Listening Comprehension

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!

A multi-part telenovela which presents the vocabulary, grammatical structures and functions of Spanish in a natural, conversational way, emphasizing comprehension through context and actions. Tells the story of Raquel Rodriguez, an attorney from Los Angeles, who is hired by an aging Mexican industrialist to investigate a long-buried secret about his past. Her quest takes her to Spain, Argentina and Puerto Rico.

En una era en que el mundo mediático parece ir reemplazando lo real, diluyéndolo inevitablemente, el teatro es tal vez el único espacio artístico en que aún se percibe el límite entre lo real y lo ficticio. En este sentido, el teatro resulta un medio privilegiado para llamar la atención sobre esta conciencia de la experiencia vital, de sus problemáticas, puntos de quiebre y abismos, y para explorar todo tipo de crisis, visibles e invisibles, antiguas y modernas. Los estudios reunidos en este libro sobre "Crisis y creatividad en el teatro español y latinoamericano del siglo XIX al...

Mujeres de hoy: textos, voces e imagenes is a content-based collection of works by Spanish, Spanish American, and Latina women designed for upper-level literature courses. Each chapter, which includes two literary selections by women writers, examines different sides of the same topic under exploration. These topics explore contemporary issues that challenge current thinking such as immigration, minority groups, race, religion, social status, and ecology. Yet Mujeres de hoy also speaks to the issues that affect the human experience - such as procreation and the construction of a gendered...

Each book comes with a companion CD which includes (American) pronunciation of the most frequently used words and phrases from the text. Perfect as a classroom supplement or self-study tool. Appropriate for all ages and levels of study. Exercises at the end of each chapter. Many words are nearly the same as their English counterparts due to their common Latin origin. The only difference is the word ending. For example, you can translate most English words ending in 'ant' (such as 'arrogant').

Palabras clave: construcciones partitivas con variable de sumas, construcciones partitivas con variable de particiones, articulo partitivo, clitico ne, sintaxis y semántica. Este libro está concebido como un análisis sintáctico y semántico de la partitividad nominal y está dirigido a las personas interesadas en el análisis comparativo y contrastivo del italiano y del español. El estudio parte del marco teórico de la semántica y la sintaxis formal (Belletti 1988; Bosque 1996, 2000; Chierchia 1997, 1998, 2010; Leonetti 2011; Link 1983, 1995, 1998; Partee 1987, 1988). Los datos objeto...