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Set in the restaurant of a fictional London hotel, "Ready to Order" provides language training for students working in the challenging food and beverage industry. The text s 12 units use the storyline and dialogues to present and practice basic functions, vocabulary, and grammar.Learning, culture, and language tips provide useful examples in context.Glossary includes all key vocabulary from the text plus other essential industry terms, designed for students to translate terms into their native language.An Audiocassette contains all the model dialogues used in the student coursebook.Teacher s...

Vos, tu, usted, vuestra merced son unos cuantos indicadores de la variedad de sistemas de tratamiento en espanol, junto con todo tipo de apodos, hipocoristicos, titulos y demas formulas nominales que, en su conjunto, se estudian desde diversas dimensiones en este amplio volumen. Participan en el cuarenta y dos autores de Europa y America para dar cuenta de los usos y sistemas de trato del espanol, segun determinaciones historicas, geograficas, estilisticas, comunicativas, pero, sobre todo, de identificacion y reconocimiento de los interlocutores en cada relacion social. Se incluyen...

El cuento hispánico: A Graded Literary Anthology , Eighth Edition, is designed for intermediate college Spanish reading courses. This book provides students with a collection of fi rst-rate Spanish-language short stories with which to expand their reading skills and their knowledge of Hispanic culture as por- trayed in these works. Although literary excellence was the primary crite- rion in selecting stories, an effort was also made to choose tales that can be read in one sitting.

* Approach reflects a belief in the value of discourse analysis, pragmatics, and sociolinguistics in the fields of second language acquisition and applied linguistics. * Goal is to train teachers to teach the Spanish language as a communicative system rather than as a set of grammatical rules--therefore it includes relevant information on Spanish pragmatics and sociolinguistics. * Written entirely in Spanish. * Each chapter includes review questions and exercises. * CD-ROM integrates samples of the course material so that the readers can see and hear native speaker examples of aspects of...