Ortología Clásica de la Lengua Castellana: Fundada En La Autoridad de Cuatrocientos Poetas

* Approach reflects a belief in the value of discourse analysis, pragmatics, and sociolinguistics in the fields of second language acquisition and applied linguistics. * Goal is to train teachers to teach the Spanish language as a communicative system rather than as a set of grammatical rules--therefore it includes relevant information on Spanish pragmatics and sociolinguistics. * Written entirely in Spanish. * Each chapter includes review questions and exercises. * CD-ROM integrates samples of the course material so that the readers can see and hear native speaker examples of aspects of...

Una de las cuestiones más difíciles con las que tiene que enfrentarse la persona que quiere profundizar en el conocimiento del español es la relativa a los valores y usos de las distintas formas verbales. Este volumen representa, sin duda, un completísimo estudio de la cuestión a propósito de los tiempos y de las formas no personales. En él, efectivamente, después de señalar los distintos significados de tiempo como término lingüístico, se aborda el estudio de todas y cada una de las formas temporales, tanto desde el punto de vista más abstracto o del sistema, como, sobre todo,...

For courses in Spanish Conversation and Intermediate Spanish. This text encourages the exploration of "free expression" in Spanish on universal topics of importance and interest. It stimulates class discussion by motivating students to talk about controversial and interesting topics such as abortion, capital punishment, and euthanasia. The exchange of ideas brought about by the use of this text allows students to develop their oral conversation and confidence in an atmosphere of friendly controversy, rather than simply learning in an environment focused upon having the "right answer" and...

The goal of this book is to provide tuition and quidance for professionals, professionals-to-be and other interested parties regarding the correct way to express themselves in English in the professional world. In order to make the most of it and do so in a confortable way, the starting level of English knowledge should be at least B1 (intermdiate). These materials are intended, firstly, to support learning within and outside the classroom and, secondly, to enable the student to acquire his/her own the strategies and techniques necessary both to understand and produce a wide range of formal...