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 ...

One of the core authors of the '60s boom in Latin American fiction, Julio Cortázar made a contribution of international importance to the development of the short story as a literary form. This collection spans his writing career and includes La Noche Boca Arriba and Final del Juego (1956), Las Babas del Diablo (1959), La Isla a Mediodia (1966), Recortes de Prensa and Queremos Tanto a Glenda (1981) and Botella al Mar (1982). Of the seven stories, some are famous examples of his contribution to the genre of 'fantastic' literature, while others demonstrate his social and political concerns....

This comprehensive reference grammar of the different types of Spanish coordination and subordination includes numerous examples and exercises.

Maximiano Cortés Moreno es Licenciado en Filología Anglogermánica, Máster en Formación de Profesores de Español como Lengua Extranjera y Doctor en Didáctica de la Lengua y la Literatura por la Universidad de Barcelona (España). En 1988 empezó su labor docente como profesor de lengua inglesa en institutos de Enseñanza Secundaria en España. Continuó en Eslovenia como profesor de español y de catalán. Desde 1993 imparte clases de lengua y cultura españolas, así como de didáctica del español como lengua extranjera en varias universidades de Taiwán. Desde 2002 viene colaborando...

Introducción a la lingüística española provides a systematic overview of key areas of Spanish linguistics, including the sound system, forms of words, syntactic patterns, the development of the language, and regional, social and contextual variation. Written entirely in Spanish from the viewpoint of contemporary descriptive linguistics, it employs a flexible approach that incorporates trends from different theoretical perspectives as well as the most recently published research.