Speak Out

With EL PRÓXIMO PASO, students progress beyond the limited responses of beginning and intermediate courses. Greater fluency, both in conversation and written communication, is the goal of this text. The chapters are thematically organized around topics of particular interest to students and include travel, sports, the environment, and more!

Caló Orbis examines a Chicano language variety from a historical, social, ideological, and theoretical framework. It gathers information, on how the urban Chicano often reduces his/her experience into thematic contents of family, home, employment, education, religion. This book takes the reader into a semiotic point of view in order to bring a deeper awareness of the symbolic activity between language style and the speaker's attitude toward the urban experience. The perspective maintained is epistemological in the broadest sense, in that the inquiry includes lexical, poetical, philosophical...

Este libro pretende aclarar las discrepancias terminológicas y conceptuales que existen en los libros de Lengua Española de ESO y Bachillerato y servir, así, de guía para que los profesores y los alumnos que, por una u otra razón, tengan que manejar más de un texto puedan comparar y entender mejor las distintas propuestas.

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 ...