Vargas Llosa

FACETAS is a brief and multi-faceted intermediate Spanish program ideal for use in one-semester courses. It incorporates relevant literary and cultural readings and integrates two kinds of video. The first is a specially-shot sitcom featured in every lesson. The second showcases three original short films by contemporary Hispanic filmmakers. FACETAS' interactive, student-friendly approach focuses on real communication in meaningful contexts, giving students a rewarding learning experience as they strengthen their language skills and develop cultural competency.

Mujeres de hoy: textos, voces e imagenes is a content-based collection of works by Spanish, Spanish American, and Latina women designed for upper-level literature courses. Each chapter, which includes two literary selections by women writers, examines different sides of the same topic under exploration. These topics explore contemporary issues that challenge current thinking such as immigration, minority groups, race, religion, social status, and ecology. Yet Mujeres de hoy also speaks to the issues that affect the human experience - such as procreation and the construction of a gendered...

Designed for introductory-level students, this communication manual develops practical vocabulary for everyday situations. The Fifth Edition corresponds in structure and content with Basic Spanish Grammar, 6/e, including a second Lección preliminar. In each lesson, essential vocabulary and grammatical structures are reinforced through realistic dialogues, questions, situational role-plays, and realia-based activities. The correlated audio program features up-to-date dialogues (paused and unpaused versions), vocabulary lists for each lesson, and Práctica orales corresponding to the review...

La historia del estudio de la gran y rica variedad de las lenguas en México comenzó con las gramáticas y diccionarios elaborados por misioneros católicos desde el siglo xvi, quienes nos heredaron muchas obras todavía valiosas para el presente. En este libro se trata de los estudios lingüísticos sobre lenguas de México (español y lenguas amerindias) a partir de la Independencia. Se busca contribuir con un primer esquema de la historia de la lingüística mexicana, en que se destacan autores, obras y corrientes de pensamiento entre 1810 y el presente.