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Revised and updated with sixty-four additional pages, the most readable and accessible compact Spanish and English Dictionary includes 15,000 headwords and more than 24,500 translations, including expanded coverage of technology words. Original. 50,000 first printing.

"El manual para escribir bien constituye una aventura profunda y lúdica del estudio del lenguaje. Así lo percibirá, si recorre las páginas de este volumen, el cual nos regla -- como si fueran golosinas -- temas lingüísticos sustanciales; cápsulas ortográficas en dosis exactas; disertaciones varias acerca de cómo escribir bien, además de otros temas de interés innegable: ¿por qué el gerundio es tan temido?, ¿la supresión de los signos de interrogación o admiración al inicio de la oración es incorrecta?, y ¿será verdad que el punto y como está desapareciendo? Por éstas y...

With culturally thematic chapters and a traditionally organized grammar sequence, this is a solid and complete introductory course. It is ideal for instructors who want a balanced, contemporary course but not necessarily an innovative methodology. Although chapter changes in the new edition include an overall shortening, a trimming of grammar detail, and adding more visually-based activities, the basic methodology remains unchanged.

* 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...