Vvelo! Beginning Spanish

¡Vívelo! offers a fresh approach to learning the Spanish language. This text emphasizes what readers know and can readily do with the language. The book includes activities that are designed to encourage readers to make cultural comparisons and connections. These activities, such as signature searches, information gap and jigsaw, are incorporated throughout the chapters to encourage a better comprehension of meaning with a purpose. ¡Vívelo! also offers metacognitive strategies to facilitate processing of advanced structures. The heavy emphasis on content and experiential learning empowers ...

Esta obra es parte de una verdadera historiografía de un periodo cruento y dramático para nuestro pueblo. El libro, hasta ahora, consta de tres volúmenes: Girón: la verdadera historia, La segunda derrota: de Girón a la crisis de los cohetes, y el que reseñamos a continuación. Escritos en un estilo ameno que mantiene el interés, los libros recogen para la historia un material mucho más amplio de lo que sus títulos sugieren. Constituyen, en realidad, un bosquejo histórico de la lucha del pueblo cubano por su liberación. Vincula además todas esas etapas --que sacan del anonimato a...

’Charisterion’ se decía en Grecia a la manifestación concreta de reconocimiento hacia una persona. En este caso, a Francisco Martín García, catedrático de Filología Griega de la Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha: sus amigos helenistas y sus compañeros del Departamento de Filología Hispánica y clásica y de la Facultad de Letras le ofrecen los más de cincuenta estudios recogidos en este volumen. La mitad de ellos pertenecen estrictamente hablando a la Filología Clásica, y la otra mitad a muy numerosas áreas del saber: Filología Hispánica, Francesa e Inglesa, Lingüística,...

Contains a description of all the different types of verbal periphrases used in modern peninsular Spanish. Defining periphrases as "productive verbal constructions with a partially grammaticized finite verb," the study strives to account for the partly lexical and partly grammatical status of periphrases within the theoretical framework of Functional Grammar--which views language as a tool for verbal communication rather than as an autonomous system. The study finds that, for certain complexities of periphrase usage, Functional Grammar needs to be adapted. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, ...

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