Preparación al Diploma de Español

English Spanish Bilingual children's book. Perfect for kids learning English or Spanish as their second language. In this children's book, you meet a girl named Amanda who has a habit of wasting her time. That is until, one day, something magical happens and Amanda finally realizes that time is the most precious thing we have - and that once it is wasted, it is lost forever. In order to get her lost time back, Amanda goes on a journey and learns to use her time wisely.

* 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...

La pragmática es una disciplina nueva y floreciente. Se multiplican sus revistas, foros de discusión y no parece descabellado imaginar que pronto habrá departamentos universitarios y centros de investigación con ese nombre. Como toda disciplina nueva, una parte de su energía está dedicada a afirmar su autonomía y a precisar la propia metodología. En este volumen el lector podrá apreciar los esfuerzos de orientación analítica empeñados en clarificar los problemas filosóficos de fundamentación y también aquellos otros que la remiten a consideraciones éticas o trascendentales....

The philosophy of this best-selling introductory text is to emphasize communicative proficiency. Based on the Natural Approach, the text stresses the use of activities in a natural and spontaneous classroom atmosphere. In this comprehension-based approach, the development of receptive skills listening and reading precedes and forms the basis for the development of the productive skills speaking and writing. "Dos mundos" is designed so that class time can be devoted to exposing students to Spanish through the abundant activities and readings in the text, allowing the grammar explanations and...