Communicating Specialized Knowledge

Mujeres de hoy: textos, voces e imagenes is a content-based collection of works by Spanish, Spanish American, and Latina women designed for upper-level literature courses. Each chapter, which includes two literary selections by women writers, examines different sides of the same topic under exploration. These topics explore contemporary issues that challenge current thinking such as immigration, minority groups, race, religion, social status, and ecology. Yet Mujeres de hoy also speaks to the issues that affect the human experience - such as procreation and the construction of a gendered...

FACETAS is a brief and multi-faceted intermediate Spanish program ideal for use in one-semester courses. It incorporates relevant literary and cultural readings and integrates two kinds of video. The first is a specially-shot sitcom featured in every lesson. The second showcases three original short films by contemporary Hispanic filmmakers. FACETAS' interactive, student-friendly approach focuses on real communication in meaningful contexts, giving students a rewarding learning experience as they strengthen their language skills and develop cultural competency.

Es conveniente resaltar la importancia del estudio linguistico que realizaron los autores sobre el matlatzinca de San Francisco Oxtotilpan unica comunidad de esta lengua que, rodeada de pueblos de habla nahua, ha conservado no solo el idioma sino tambien su cultura. Los resultados de la investigacion, que durante anos han llevado a cabo Escalante y Hernandez, permiten el estudio de procesos de larga duracion que tiendan el puente entre los matlatzincas historicos y los contemporaneos para conocer las particularidades culturales de este grupo etnico, que dominara otrora una amplia extension...

With homework practice activities for each chapter, this workbook is integral to learning with Gramática para la composición. There are over 300 practice exercises along with pre-tests for students for each chapter. The Workbook is available in ebook format only and includes all of the exercises previously found on the Companion Website. An Answer Key, sold separately, is available for learners to be able to check their own work. These are the same exercises previously included on the companion website.