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!

El volumen reúne buena parte de los estudios que el profesor Gerold Hilty de la Universidad de Zúrich ha dedicado, a lo largo de su extensa y fructífera carrera académica, al ámbito iberorrománico: en las dos principales secciones ('Historia y teoría lingüística' y 'Filología textual y literatura') el lector podrá apreciar la evolución crítica seguida por este insigne romanista a la hora de abordar temas y textos de casi todas las lenguas y culturas peninsulares, siendo por tanto este criterio -geográfico, pero también emocional para su autor-el que proporciona una clara unidad ...

French course for Spanish speakers A course that doesn't involve learning by heart, ideal for beginners and for a refresher course. Learners can start to speak French within two months, gaining an intuitive knowledge of grammar. Within six months, learners can take part in everyday conversation with a vocabulary of 1,500 to 2,000 words. The recordings include all the texts in French for each lesson and the translation exercises from the book. These progressively more challenging texts have been recorded by professional native speakers. - Lively, useful dialogue - Carefully-constructed...

¡A que sí!, is a provocative post-intermediate Spanish conversation book that will motivate students to developcultural awareness and express opinions through oral and written discussion on a variety of timely, personally relevantissues. Each theme-related unit is supported by creative activities and engaging authentic materials, including dozens of new selections in literature, journalism, films, songs, and cartoons.

El objetivo de este libro es exponer un método de análisis del discurso centrado en las ideas del emisor pero no ceñido a las ideas de propio discurso, sino a toda la concepción del mundo emisor: al modelo del mundo que ha dirigido la formación de dicho discurso, sobre el cual éste nos dará pistas exactas. Por tanto, no se trata de un tipo de análisis estrictamente lingüístico, sino de un análisis psicolingüístico del discurso, que estudia cómo se relacionan, específicamente, las emisiones lingüísticas completas –los discursos- con la mente del emisor –su conciencia, su...