Nautilus 1

This book offers beginners a clear and easy-to-understand guide to the verbs and grammar of Spanish. Ideal for Spanish revision.

This intermediate Spanish program emphasizes skill building through five coordinated components: grammar, literary readings, cultural readings, an activities manual, and a workbook/lab manual. The core text provides a comprehensive review of grammar and a communicative, interactive focus with realia, class polls, and storytelling activities. The literary reader contains essays, short stories, plays, and poetry from some of the major authors of the Hispanic world. The cultural reader provides students with a broad overview of Hispanic culture and society while helping them to develop reading...

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)...