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En Marcha is an intensive course in Spanish for beginners. Systematic and comprehensive, it takes the student from beginner's to upper intermediate level in one year. Carefully graded exercises and expert grammatical explanations are combined with lively activities and an attractive presentation to develop the four key skills of listening, speaking, reading and writing. The material is organised in 8 units, each unit introduces new language and provides a variety of activities to practise that language, with clear instructions guiding the student and regular summaries of key points. The units ...

Composición: Proceso y síntesis is designed for use in the advanced Spanish composition course to help students develop the ability to perform the writing tasks that are generally expected of Spanish majors and minors. Since the publication of the first edition, instructors in this course have conveyed an increased interest in the development of functional, purposeful language skills, and the authors factored this into their revision. This fifth edition also takes into account recent findings in writing research, and owes many of its improvements to the helpful feedback from those who have...

Es sumamente alentador conocer en estos momentos, interesantes aunque conflictivos y nada fáciles para el educador, experiencias de innovación didáctica como la que se ofrece en estas páginas. La paz, desde un enfoque comunicativo y comprendida como concepto amplio, actual y vivo que abarca las necesidades y aspiraciones de nuestra época es el eje de un proyecto interdisciplinar diseñado para la Educación Secundaria Obligatoria. En él se considera cómo la lectura es una forma de asomarnos al mundo y entrar en diálogo con la realidad natural y social. Las variadas y sugerentes...

Sol y viento: En breve is an exciting new film-based introductory Spanish program that seamlessly integrates the feature-length film Sol y viento into the instructional and learning experience for both students and instructors. This brief version of Sol y viento: Beginning Spanish (McGraw-Hill, 2005) presents a briefer text that is easily managed for programs with fewer contact hours or as an intensive high beginner course. The movie Sol y viento, created specifically for beginning language learners, was filmed on location in Chile, Mexico, and the United States. The film tells the story of a ...