Las dinámicas de la cultura y sus implicancias para la educación en China

* 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...

¿Te imaginas lo que pasaría si confundieras un hipopótamo con una rana? Seguramente al hipopótamo no le haría ninguna, pero que ninguna gracia. ¿Y un mono con un elefante? ¿o una cebra con un camaleón?. Pues bien, nuestras divertidas plantitas viven en una maceta y la verdad es que no han visto mucho mundo, y se pasan el tiempo confundiendo unos animales con otros, y metiéndose en grandes líos. Finalmente hemos reunido los seis cuentos de los animales y las plantas en un sólo volumen, para que te puedes llevar este libro electrónico bilingüe en Inglés y Español a cualquier...

Provided to instructors to share with students at their own discretion, the Answer Key provides answers to all activities in the Workbook/Lab Manual/Video Manual and is accompanied by the printed transcript of the Lab Audio and Video Transcript. Based on reviewer feedback, audio is shortened and simplified in this edition to be more comprehensible to introductory students.

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...