Conversacion y repaso

This video program on DVD accompanies the Intermediate Spanish series and presents specially selected cultural topics relating directly to material covered in Civilizaci n y cultura. Featuring a mix of short film (NEW to this edition), authentic news clips, and other cultural footage, the video program spans the Spanish-speaking world and provides you with a wealth of cultural perspectives.

“ This book contains English and Spanish words, you can read with great ease and comfort with its extremely simple and plain appearance.”

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...

Este trabajo presenta una introducción al análisis de la oración simple inglesa siguiendo un enfoque primordialmente funcional. Como base teórica para el análisis se parte del concepto de «diátesis» tal y como lo plantearon los lingüistas del círculo de Leningrado en los años setenta (Mel’cuk, Jolodovic, Khrakovsky y Uspenskij), retomado en Mel’cuk (1993) dentro del marco de la meaning Text Grammar. Para el estudio de ciertas diátesis resultativas que no pueden explicarse partiendo del concepto de valencia, se asume una aproximación construccional. Todos los presupuestos...

Designed for more advanced introductory-level students, Spanish for Communication develops the basic language skills necessary for successful communication in everyday situations. At the beginning of each lesson, a realistic dialogue provides the context for the introduction of grammar and vocabulary, which is then reinforced through questions, situational roleplays, and realia-based activities and is correlated to Basic Spanish Grammar.