Toponimia De Espana / Toponymy of Spain

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 Spanish edition of Becky and Her Friends, by Rolando Hinojosa, is the latest novel in Hinojosa's Klail City Death Trip series which follows generations of Anglos and Mexicans in the fictional Rio Grande Valley town of Klail City, Texas. In this novel, however, Hinojosa focuses on a character who has previously not taken the limelight: the strong-willed, upwardly mobile Becky Escobar. Following her story, Hinojosa explores the world of Latinas: women's culture, language and spirit in the world of the Valley. Delightfully playful in narrative perspective, this story gives the reader a...

The 5th edition of Mosaicos: Spanish as a World Language provides a fresh, 2lst-century perspective on language teaching and learning in the context of a dynamic introduction to the Hispanic world and its people. Rich contextualization of vocabulary combined with contextualized, functional grammatical instruction gives students an authentic, communicative introduction to the Spanish language. Deeply integrated culture and detailed listening, speaking, reading and writing practice bring all the pieces together for today's students of Spanish. This Books á la Carte Edition is an unbound,...

Este estudio se estructura en torno a tres temas principales. En primer lugar se considera el fenómeno de la interferencia lingüística como parte del contacto entre culturas, haciendo un repaso de las distintas nomenclaturas que se han utilizado y que se siguen empleando en este campo de la lingüística. En el siguiente capítulo, después de realizar un recorrido por las principales tipologías del préstamo lingüístico, se presenta la clasificación adoptada para el análisis de un corpus de más de un millar de galicismos del español que hemos recopilado. En la última parte se...