Medical Spanish Made Incredibly Easy

¡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 ...

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!

The editors and fourteen other research linguists discuss--in English and in Spanish--the African influence on Caribbean phonology, dominant sociolinguistic attitudes in Puerto Rico, and historico-legal aspects of bilingualism in colonial Hispanic America.

Este libro re ne cuatro trabajos de don Silvio Zavala, que giran en torno a uno de los temas m s controvertidos y particulares de la historia de M xico: la castellanizaci n de los ind genas, que a su vez, incide en otro tema no menos controvertido, el de las pol ticas del lenguaje. Con agudeza y meticulosidad, el autor traspasa el tiempo y observa que desde el siglo XVI existe un problema que a n hoy en d a no parece encontrar salida coherente para una naci n unificada. La unidad, la identidad, la nacionalidad, el pluriling ismo son los finos hilos que se entretejen en una compleja red de...