Beginning Spanish for Teachers of Hispanic Students

"'Español escrito' is a first-course textbook designed specifically for college students educated in the United States whose first language is Spanish. The text's main goals are two: to acquaint students with Spanish in its written form, and to expand students' o verall knowledge of the language. To these ends, 'Español escrito' focuses on reading development, orthography, identification of the parts of speech, lexical expansion, and facility in composition"--Preface, p. v.

Grounded in the fundamentals of the Spanish language, AS ES fosters communication without sacrificing accuracy. Its extensive cultural resources are designed to allow flexibility in presenting the rich heritage of the Spanish speaking world.

An exciting new entry in the beginning Spanish market, Entrevistas (Interviews) fulfills the market demand for an innovative treatment of culture within a four-skills approach. A manageable fifteen chapters, Entrevistas has as its principal objective the development of communicative language proficiency. Entrevistas sets itself apart from other first-year Spanish texts through the integration and treatment of authentic (real) speech samples in the text, video, audio, and website.

Este libro ofrece al lector un estudio de enfoque sintáctico-discursivo de un corpus conformado por textos de materia económica publicados en España durante los siglos XVII y XVIII. Estos escritos se ajustan a una serie de patrones discursivo-tradicionales que anuncian la configuración lingüística que hoy en día asociamos al género del ensayo. El análisis contribuye a esbozar una imagen más certera de los procesos de elaboración y cambio de la lengua española en el tránsito del español clásico al moderno.