Hoy Dìa

Three boys. Three stories. And one sport that unites them - and maybe not the one you'd expect.For as long as they can remember, best friends Mario and Carlos have talked about playing professional baseball one day like one of their idols, Rafael Soriano of the Yankees. Though they have only played the game on the streets of the neighborhood, growing up the boys often repeated the same conversation about someday wearing the pinstriped uniform and giving post-game interviews to the press - in English and Spanish! It was wishful thinking, to be sure, but common for many young boys raised in the ...

* 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...

Para los estudiantes de lengua, el presente libro Los tiempos verbales ofrece un sencillo método que les permite dominar las 3 conjugaciones con sólo aprender 9 “fórmulas introductorias” (una para cada tiempo simple) y las 8 relaciones entre los tiempos simples y los compuestos. Se explica además el uso básico de cada tiempo, así como las dificultades más habituales de acentuación, ortografía y conjugación de ciertos verbos de uso frecuente. Para los profesionales de la lengua o los estudiantes avanzados, el libro ofrece un exhaustivo estudio del uso matizado de los tiempos (se...

This Spanish-language jacket for the Concise Oxford Spanish Dictionary makes this dictionary an essential reference for Spanish speakers. All material is presented in both languages.