Vistazos: Un curso breve

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!

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Written in clear and simple Spanish, this book introduces the grammatical and phonetical systems of Spanish by means of a contrastive analysis of Spanish and English. Presents a systems analysis to be used as a basis for error analysis in the classroom. Briefly outlines a model of language acquisition and discusses the relationship between linguistic theory and teaching methodology. Gives overview of articulatory phonetics and contrasts Spanish phonetics with English; develops the system of phonological rules of Spanish; and treats the formation of the verb tense-mood system. Considers...

Trabajo Universitario del año 2003 en eltema Romanística - Español, literatura, cultura general, Universität Hamburg, Idioma: Español, Resumen: Zagona (2002) discute las propriedades sintácticas características de las lenguas del sujeto nulo tales como el español o el italiano. Para ilustrar ilustrar estas propriedades sintácticas la autora compara datos provenientes de lenguas del sujeto nulo tales como el español con datos provenientes de otras lenguas tales come el inglés. Según Jaeggli (1982) y Rizzi (1992) la opción del uso de sujetos nulos (la caída del sujeto) representa...

¡Vívelo! offers a fresh approach to learning the Spanish language. This text emphasizes what readers know and can readily do with the language. The book includes activities that are designed to encourage readers to make cultural comparisons and connections. These activities, such as signature searches, information gap and jigsaw, are incorporated throughout the chapters to encourage a better comprehension of meaning with a purpose. ¡Vívelo! also offers metacognitive strategies to facilitate processing of advanced structures. The heavy emphasis on content and experiential learning empowers ...