Concise Oxford Spanish Dictionary

Provides coverage of more than 100,000 words, phrases, and translations, as well as notes on the life and culture of countries of the Spanish-speaking world.

* 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...

The workbook/lab manual closely follows the organization of the main text to provide additional reading, writing, listening, and pronunciation practice outside of class.

CONTENIDO: Las Islas que no vio Aristóteles - Costumbres imperiales - Los idiomas portátiles - Las manos servían de lengua - Felipillo y otras gentes de su oficio - Zambambú, morenica de Congo - Ideas del doctor Barot - Recelos seglares - Las decisiones de don Carlos - El español europeo - Corán, Talmud y Biblia - Tiempos de tormentas - Las guerras idiomáticas - La estrategia londinense - Acuerdo de paz - Lo que se debe a la escuela - Dónde esta el español - Las tribulaciones de la tribu - Lengua y ciencia - Imagen del futuro - La primera de Táriq ben Ziyad - La hora de los...