El Delincuente Español

This brief version of the successful ¿Sabías que…? is perfectly designed for Beginning Spanish programs that are interested in an innovative task-based approach but whose curriculum necessitates a more concise text program. Accompanied by an outstanding ancillary package, Vistazos represents the practical application of the theories and research presented in Lee and VanPatten’s methods text, Making Communicative Language Teaching Happen. With this new edition the authors have worked on a group of select text activities that are available in an optional online format through Quia™...

Este libro examina las estrategias discursivas para la construcción de una subjetividad nacional en el contexto de los procesos de modernización en el Puerto Rico decimonónico. Por medio de un análisis de las estrategias literarias utilizadas por Eugenio María de Hostos (1839-1903) y por Alejandro Tapia y Rivera (1826-1882) es posible adquirir una nueva visión sobre el impacto de la ficción en dicha construcción en el contexto de una sociedad colonial. Ambos escritores utilizaron sus textos como una manera de imaginarse un nuevo cuerpo: un individuo capaz de trazar el camino a ser...

Offers eighty thousand entries highlighting Latin American Spanish, tables of regular and irregular verbs, and sections on numbers and common abbreviations

While the city of Valencia enjoys the Las Fallas festival, Sheriff Peralta begins to receive strange reports about the disappearance of Fallas girls. From the series Español con guiones, a reader series based on original film scripts that invite intermediate learners to engage with the Spanish language in a modern and accessible context. Each reader features an original story, told using the dialogue and stage direction of a film script.