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!

Alejandro Morales es un importante escritor chicano contemporáneo que sigue intrigando a lectores. Este estudio explora cómo las novelas de Morales (Caras viejas y vino nuevo, La verdad sin voz, Reto en el paraíso, The Brick People, y The Rag Doll Plagues), en conjunto, reconstruyen la historia del chicano en los Estados Unidos y las implicaciones sociales que resultan de este intento. Por medio del estudio del cronotopo del encuentro, la recuperación de la historia y el compromiso social, la narrativa de Morales examina los elementos que forman la «esencia chicana.» Es importante...

The quickest way to study the essential Spanish words and the perfect companion to titles in the ever-popular Easy Learning Spanish range.

This innovative textbook fulfills the needs of upper-division Spanish students who are pursuing degrees in the health professions, plan to become medical interpreters or just want to improve their proficiency in the language. It provides multiple opportunities to learn vocabulary related to the medical field, reviews hard-to-understand grammatical concepts, describes health-related cultural competence and presents opportunities to discuss issues of concern about the health of Hispanic communities in the US and abroad.

The tapes are based on the book "Spanish Vocabulary & Structure for the Health Professional". They cover the vocabulary, verb conjugations, pronunciation of vowels & consonants, syllabication, linking & intonation