Answer Key for the Student Activities Manual for Identidades

Ideas is an intermediate or advanced reader that emphasizes the use of reading strategies to help students become more effective readers. It has a unique format, with all readings found in the six chapters of Parte I, which are designed to look like individual magazines on high interest topics such as pets, food, relations between the sexes, and so on. Reading strategies plus exercises, as well as lively activities that stimulate in-class conversation and composition topics make up Parte II. The entire text is in Spanish, including the reading strategies themselves. All readings--from...

This collection of papers addresses the wide variety of questions that arise when Spanish (or any language) comes into contact with other languages. Which languages are used and under what circumstances? How do languages change and affect each other in a bilingual or multilingual environment? How do societal pressures, cultural stereotypes, and individual attitudes affect language use and development, or even result in the death of a language? Spanish in Contact is organized into three sections, examining contact situations in Spain, Latin America, and the United States. The authors look at...

Vibrant and original, VISTAS takes a fresh, student-friendly approach to Introductory Spanish aimed at making students' learning and instructors' teaching easier, more enjoyable, and more successful. And, it works! Since its first publication in fall 2000, VISTAS has become the most widely adopted new Introductory Spanish program in a decade.

Los libros de texto gratuitos (LTG) repartidos desde 1960 como textos de enseñanza escolar obligatoria para todos los niños mexicanos constituyen una herramienta utilizada por el gobierno para inculcar, entre otras cosas, un modelo compartido de identidad nacional. Este libro propone analizar las estrategias de construcción discursiva mediante las cuales se estructuró el modelo cognitivo idealizado (MCI) de identidad nacional mexicana en cuatro generaciones de LTG de primero de primaria (1960–1971; 1972–1980; 1981–1993; 1994–2009); verificar cuál fue la evolución de dicho MCI; y ...