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Designed for second- and third-year Spanish conversation courses, Conversaciones creadoras offers a dynamic, learner-centered approach to developing oral communication skills and cultural competence. A preliminary chapter presents the objectives, approach, and structure of the text, as well as useful learning strategies and "ice-breaking" activities. The following 12 chapters contain a strong pedagogical apparatus that requires students to use Spanish to resolve meaningful conflicts.

Contains a description of all the different types of verbal periphrases used in modern peninsular Spanish. Defining periphrases as "productive verbal constructions with a partially grammaticized finite verb," the study strives to account for the partly lexical and partly grammatical status of periphrases within the theoretical framework of Functional Grammar--which views language as a tool for verbal communication rather than as an autonomous system. The study finds that, for certain complexities of periphrase usage, Functional Grammar needs to be adapted. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, ...

Los contenidos universitarios, alma máter que da título a la presente colección, suponen el reto cimero para los esfuerzos de investigadores y docentes en las principales Universidades mundiales ya que éstos avanzan a la par que los tiempos, en una simbiosis que se pretende perfecta y que debe reajustarse constantemente a través de los trabajos docentes del profesorado, derivados de su quehacer investigador, como lo son los reflejados en el presente título. Este diccionario, por tanto, nace con anhelo de erigirse como apoyo textual tanto a las nuevas necesidades a partir de la labor...

Spanish translation of "Kontakte mit deinem Schutzgeist". Describes how to communicate with your guardian angel.