Fundamentos y Modelos del Estudio Pragmático y Sociopragmático del Español

¡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 ...

The EMS Translator Field Guide, Spanish Edition allows the provider to simply point to Spanish questions and explanations, rather than requiring him or her to learn the language or pronounce the words phonetically. When the provider needs to obtain more information from the patient about his or her medical condition, the provider selects a question they wish to ask from a list of queries written in English and then simply points to the corresponding question in Spanish. The Spanish-speaking patient then needs only to answer "yes" or "no" to the questions posed to him or her. The English and...

Ewan Dow es director del Centre for Language Studies, University of Surrey. Regresó a su país en 2006, tras desempeñarse durante cuatro años como profesor en las ciudades chinas de Cantón (en Guangdong University of Foreign Studies) y Beijing. Hu Hua Ouyang obtuvo el título de Doctor en City University of Hong Kong. Su tesis doctoral ha sido recientemente publicada por Peking University Press. En la actualidad es director del Centro de investigación educativa en lengua inglesa de Guangdong University of Foreign Studies en Guangzhou, Cantón República Popular China y el Chinese...

Impartial, modern, and friendly, this book introduces readers to the civilization and culture of Latin America-- from the most obscure beginnings to the present--and at the same time provides them with opportunities to improve their listening, speaking and writing skills. Comprehensive and chronological in approach, it offers well-researched coverage that goes beyond historical facts to include aspects of modern interest, sociology, economy, politics, philosophy, literature, arts, and communication. It covers the traditions in all of Spanish America--"Mesoamerica" and the Caribbean, as well...