Introducción a la historia de la lengua española

Identidades offers a content-rich communicative presentation for students entering Intermediate Spanish - meeting you where you are and moving you realistically to higher proficiency levels. Drawing on skills students have developed in other course areas, Identidades further develops these abilities by taking a process-oriented methodology to skill building. Rich in cultural content, Identidades helps you draw parallels between your own identity and the cultural identities of the Spanish-speaking world. This Books á la Carte Plus Edition is an unbound, three-hole punched version of the...

El Diccionario del español ecuatoriano pretende reflejar la realidad lingüística del país y cifrar la memoria de una lengua rica en variaciones y complejidades. El trabajo vasto de prefijar los elementos léxicos del español hablado en Ecuador no pretende propagar nuevas normas lingüísticas sino describir el paisaje actual al que las palabras han llegado luego de años de fragua en la colectividad de un país, como si se tratase de un retrato de sus gentes y de sus lugares habituales. El presente diccionario es de naturaleza contrastiva, las diez mil quinientas palabras que han sido...

* Approach reflects a belief in the value of discourse analysis, pragmatics, and sociolinguistics in the fields of second language acquisition and applied linguistics. * Goal is to train teachers to teach the Spanish language as a communicative system rather than as a set of grammatical rules--therefore it includes relevant information on Spanish pragmatics and sociolinguistics. * Written entirely in Spanish. * Each chapter includes review questions and exercises. * CD-ROM integrates samples of the course material so that the readers can see and hear native speaker examples of aspects of...