KWIKFIX™ ENGLISH BOOKLET FOR LATINOS IN THE HOTEL INDUSTRY

En los teatros clasicos, el escenario estaba construido con tablas de madera. Por eso, la palabra tablas significa también escenario, teatro. Y eso es lo que ofrece este libro: teatro en espanol. Para que el estudiante pueda pisar las tablas, es decir, actuar; y para que, haciendo teatro, aprenda espanol. En el proceso de preparacion de una obra intervienen muchas personas: los actores, el director, el escenografo, los técnicos... Todos ellos trabajan juntos para hacer un producto artistico: la representacion de una obra de teatro. Tablas ofrece actividades que dirigen a los estudiantes...

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...

This rich textbook provides a comprehensive introduction to the principal concepts and thematic areas of Spanish pragmatics. It is aimed at advanced students of Spanish—upper-level undergraduates and beginning graduate students—who need to hone their language skills for contextually sensitive use of the language. Written entirely in Spanish, with Spanish examples, this volume introduces basic pragmatics, methods of analysis, and new thematic areas such as language and the press and globalization. Theoretical explanations combine with practical exercises in each chapter to help...