Learn Spanish with La Puerte De Bronce and Other Stories

Índice (Extracto): 1. Cuando se es pequeño no se saben las letras (Presentación): La vida de las letras. Las letras de mi nombre. 2. Los primeros intentos: Conceptos y variaciones infantiles sobre el lenguaje escrito. Tratamiento del lenguaje escrito en el aula. El problema de la madurez 3. Caminante, no hay camino (Los métodos): La querella de los métodos. La sacralización del método. ¿Qué son los métodos? 4. Yo vi ayer un nido en una torre (textos funcionales): La escritura escolar. Oportunidades para leer y escribir. los rincones y el lenguaje escrito. 6. Más allá de los muros...

Composición: Proceso y síntesis is designed for use in the advanced Spanish composition course to help students develop the ability to perform the writing tasks that are generally expected of Spanish majors and minors. Since the publication of the first edition, instructors in this course have conveyed an increased interest in the development of functional, purposeful language skills, and the authors factored this into their revision. This fifth edition also takes into account recent findings in writing research, and owes many of its improvements to the helpful feedback from those who have...

Mnemonics is an age-old device for remembering names, numbers, and many other things. As in the authors' previous Memory Books, the Intermediate Spanish Memory Book makes use of this reliable memory help in a series of mnemonic jingles that are by turns playful, sardonic, touching, and heroic to help both students and independent learners acquire and remember Spanish vocabulary. The 500-plus words in this book represent a more advanced vocabulary than those in the Spanish Memory Book (1990) and the Spanish Memory Book, Junior Edition (1993). The mnemonic jingles present both the sound of the...

This courses teaches Spanish systematically using the following rules: 1. Only one word is introduced each lesson (there are a couple of exceptions, and the reasons are explained in the course). 2. Each new words must be used in every new word, new sentence and dialogue created in that lesson. 3. All words need to be repeated multiple times in subsequent lessons to ensure constant revision. Audio is built into the course, with over 400 audio files embedded (check supporting devices) This course systematically teaches 100 Spanish words. Knowing 100 of the most common Spanish words can help you ...