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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!

This volume focuses on the Spanish locative verbs "poner" and "meter". By means of logistic regression analyses, the parallels and differences in the spatial relations they denote are established. The thesis also zooms in on their linguistic behavior as auxiliaries in inchoative and causative periphrases. In addition, a historical corpus study describes the grammaticalization of the verbs, starting from the 13th century up to now.

Esta obra reune los articulos presentados en el congreso -Lengua, Literatura y Educacion. Jornada internacional sobre la ensenanza de la lengua y la literatura espanolas en el siglo XX-, que tuvo lugar en la Universidad de Lleida en 2008. Las relaciones entre lengua, literatura y educacion durante el siglo XX en Espana pasaron por diversas etapas, en funcion de los cambiantes contextos sociales e ideologicos vividos en este pais a lo largo del pasado siglo. Asi, partiendo de una reflexion metodologica acerca de la gramaticografia didactica, se abordan aspectos como los metodos de ensenanza,...

Intermediate. It is 1792, and Spain is in crisis. The Inquisition is sweeping the country, making life dangerous for court painter Francisco Goya and his beautiful model Ines. From the reader series Aprende Espanol Con..., which features stories based on modern films and television series, carefully adapted for Spanish language students. Includes an Audio CD of the text, supplementary materials for teachers, and before and after activities for students.