KWIKFIX™ ENGLISH BOOKLET FOR LATINOS IN THE HOTEL INDUSTRY

A captivating and beautifully illustrated story for learners of Spanish! A stranded little blue penguin must reach the colony to survive, but will he make it with a vicious sea monster between him and his family? Set in New Zealand and inspired by local legends, 'Itipurú y el monstruo del océano' is an ideal first reader for learners of Spanish

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...

Índice – Premisa - 1. SOBRE LA COMPRENSIÓN DEL TEXTO ESCRITO - 1.1. La lectura (p. 9) – 1.1.1. La lectura como descifrado (p. 9) – 1.1.2 La lectura como comprensión (p.11) – 1.2. El lector (p. 18) – 1.2.1. El lector y las expectativas de lectura (p. 20). – 1.2.2. El lector y los conocimientos precedentes (p. 21) - 2. EL TOPIC - 2.1. La topicalización (p. 25) – 2.2. El topic y la lectura en L2 (p. 29) – 2.2.1. Expectativas extralingüísticas (p. 29). – 2.2.1. Expectativas lingüísticas (p. 31). – 2.2.1. Expectativas meta-lingüísticas (p. 32). – 2.3. La actividad...

This book offers an in-depth study of the internal structures of Popol Vuh, the Sacred Book of the Maya-Quiche people of Guatemala, and of the ways in which the main characters of this text are configured. This is accompanied by a similar, comparative analysis of the three novels widely known in the Hispanic world as the Banana Trilogy, written betweem 1950 and 1960 by the winner of the 1967 Nobel Prize for Literature, Miguel Angel Asturias. By showing a direct relationship between the macro-structure of Popol Vuh and its literary devices (including character configuration) and those of the...