Vvelo! Beginning Spanish

¡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 ...

Cambridge English for Schools offers:" an approach centred around the whole educational context of learning English at school" links across the school curriculum to other subject areas throughout the course, and to other classes in different countries" content and concepts related to learners ages and levels of ability" an organisation which takes into account the realities of teaching English at school: mixed abilities, mixed motivation, time available, and class size" material which has been developed and successfully piloted in collaboration with teachers and classes in many parts of the...

A four-skills approach to learning a foreign language utilizes a wide variety of activities and materials, clear grammar presentations, and effective tutorials and exercises, all designed to promote listening comprehension. (Language)

This volume focuses on the Spanish locative verbs "poner" and "meter". By means of logistic regression analyses, the parallels and differences in the spatial relations they denote are established. The thesis also zooms in on their linguistic behavior as auxiliaries in inchoative and causative periphrases. In addition, a historical corpus study describes the grammaticalization of the verbs, starting from the 13th century up to now.

Esta obra colectiva recoge buena parte de las comunicaciones y las ponencias presentadas en el XVII Coloquio de la APFUE, la Asociación de Profesores de Francés de la Universidad Española que ha trocado recientemente su denominación por la de AFUE (Asociación de Francesistas de la Universidad Española); cambio motivado, en opinión –expresada mayoritariamente– de sus miembros, por entender que el término francesistas refleja mejor al conjunto de los universitarios que se dedican a los Estudios Franceses en España, tanto en la docencia como en la investigación. El volumen da...