Escritura y reescrituras en el entorno literario del Cancionero de Baena

This intermediate Spanish program emphasizes skill building through five coordinated components: grammar, literary readings, cultural readings, an activities manual, and a workbook/lab manual. The core text provides a comprehensive review of grammar and a communicative, interactive focus with realia, class polls, and storytelling activities. The literary reader contains essays, short stories, plays, and poetry from some of the major authors of the Hispanic world. The cultural reader provides students with a broad overview of Hispanic culture and society while helping them to develop reading...

Este libro forma parte del curso Perfeccionamiento del español a través de textos teatrales. Es un curso compuesto por doce libros en los que se utilizan textos del teatro clásico español de los siglos XVII-XX y dirigido principalmente a los estudiantes de idiomas de las clases superiores y de la universidad, pero también muy útil para quien quiera profundizar en el conocimiento de la Lengua de forma amena e instructiva. Cada uno de los libros contiene una breve biografía del autor, las características de su obra dramática, una presentación de la obra elegida y un fragmento...

Beginning Medical Spanish. Oral Proficiency and Cultural Humility is designed for medical professionals and supporting staff with no prior knowledge of Spanish who need to develop oral language skills and cross-cultural sensitivity to establish relationship-building communication with their Spanish-speaking patients. This hospital-tested program teaches how to connect with patients of limited English-speaking ability and offer them the quality care they seek. Role-play activities allow students to develop their oral proficiency in meaningful contexts and contribute to a creative and dynamic...

This Spanish edition of Becky and Her Friends, by Rolando Hinojosa, is the latest novel in Hinojosa's Klail City Death Trip series which follows generations of Anglos and Mexicans in the fictional Rio Grande Valley town of Klail City, Texas. In this novel, however, Hinojosa focuses on a character who has previously not taken the limelight: the strong-willed, upwardly mobile Becky Escobar. Following her story, Hinojosa explores the world of Latinas: women's culture, language and spirit in the world of the Valley. Delightfully playful in narrative perspective, this story gives the reader a...