Ingles Para Dummies

This perennial best-seller is written for Advanced Grammar and Composition or Advanced Composition and Conversation classes. Grammatical explanations are given in English to facilitate comprehension. Numerous excercises help improve oral, written, and vocabulary skills. The contextualized exercises focus on contemporary situations students are likely to encounter. With updated literary and cultural readings, Repase y Escriba includes an "oral exchange," to make the text more useful when stressing conversation. New sections provide hints on the "art" of writing and rules for punctuation and...

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...

Este libro nace de la necesidad de desarrollar la competencia comunicativa a través de las manifestaciones culturales, regionales y nacionales, tales como: mitos, leyendas y agüeros para el aprendizaje-enseñanza de ELE, debido a que es de conocimiento común que aprender una lengua implica aprender una cultura; con base en esto, los integrantes del grupo ELEX consideran imprescindible la potenciación de la competencia comunicativa a través de actividades de lectura, escritura, orales y escucha teniendo en cuenta las temáticas mencionadas, mediante la creación de materiales (talleres)...