Beginning Spanish for Teachers of Hispanic Students

This three-stage new edition of this Spanish course for beginners leads to public examinations. Experienced practitioners and users of !Vaya! have been consulted and their suggestions have been incorporated into this new edition. It has been written to meet the requirements of the National Curriculum and the 5-14 Guidelines. Stages 1, 2 and 3 of !Vaya! Nuevo should prepare students for GCSE/Key Stage 4 examinations and Standard Grade.

"Since the publication of the still very valuable Biblioteca histâorica de la filologâia by Cipriano Muänoz y Manzano, conde de la Viänaza, (Madrid, 1893), our knowledge of the history of the study of the Spanish language has grown considerably, and most manuscript and secondary sources had never been tapped before Hans-Josef Niederehe of the University of Trier courageously undertook the task to bring together any available bibliographical information together with much more recent research findings, scattered in libraries, journals and other places. The resulting Bibliografâia...

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.

"Los animales, empezando por la araña, se van preparado para un viaje. Piensan en las cosas que precisan: abrigo (los animales cuyo nombre empiece por la A), bolso (los animales con la B), crema para el Sol (los animales con la C)... Cuando cada animal está listo, llama por sus amigos (Abeja llama por la avispa, por la Azor, por la Araña...) y van tomando asiento... Así pasa con todas las letras del alfabeto, hasta que al final... empieza a llover. Se descubre al final del cuento que se trata del ARCA DE NOÉ. La idea es que el animal principal de cada página esté configurado,...