Teaching Spanish Grammar with Pictures

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.

Spanish Grammar in Context provides an accessible and stimulating approach to learning grammar. Authentic texts are used to illustrate and explain the key areas of Spanish grammar, followed by a range of exercises to help students reinforce and test their understanding. An answer key is also presented at the back of the book. Features include: A rich variety of texts sourced from all over the Spanish-speaking world, including excerpts from contemporary literature, magazines and newspapers Texts carefully selected to cover topical issues and themes relevant to contemporary Spain and Latin...

El presente libro constituye un estudio de las estructuras copulativas en español mediadas por los verbos ser y estar como expresión de dos modos ónticos. El enfoque es semiolingüístico y pone en funcionamiento un modelo dinámico en espiral que hace posible la ubicación sistemática de las diferentes construcciones de ser y estar, sean éstas predicativas, copulativas o perifrásticas, presentándolas como discontinuidades de un continuo. El resultado de la investigación demuestra la existencia de un esquema cognitivo y una estructura enunciativa específica para sendos verbos. Esto...

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...

Mit der kubanischen Wirtschaftskrise entstanden neue literarische Gestaltungsprozesse nationaler Identitätskonstruktionen. Die vorliegende Analyse geht der zeitgenössischen Literatur Kubas nach, in der soziale, kulturelle und politische Paradoxe der post-revolutionären Weltanschauung zum Vorschein kommen und der Figur der „Insel“ bzw. „Insularität“ eine große Bedeutung für die Neukonfiguration der Nation zukommt. Die „Insularität“ drückt in literarischen Texten verschiedene Aneignungen des Raumes und somit auch eine Weltanschauungen aus. Die literarische Figur der...