Temas

At the Charmartin station, a student named Frank waits in line to buy his return ticket to Paris. Right behind him is Marta. Meanwhile, Federico arrives in Sydney, unaware of when or how he boarded the airplane that took him from his bed all the way to Australia.

Índice – Premisa - 1. SOBRE LA COMPRENSIÓN DEL TEXTO ESCRITO - 1.1. La lectura (p. 9) – 1.1.1. La lectura como descifrado (p. 9) – 1.1.2 La lectura como comprensión (p.11) – 1.2. El lector (p. 18) – 1.2.1. El lector y las expectativas de lectura (p. 20). – 1.2.2. El lector y los conocimientos precedentes (p. 21) - 2. EL TOPIC - 2.1. La topicalización (p. 25) – 2.2. El topic y la lectura en L2 (p. 29) – 2.2.1. Expectativas extralingüísticas (p. 29). – 2.2.1. Expectativas lingüísticas (p. 31). – 2.2.1. Expectativas meta-lingüísticas (p. 32). – 2.3. La actividad...

Students quickly discover that learning Spanish becomes easier with this book-and-CD combination because it teaches verbs and verb usage systematically.

What cities were there in early 16th-century Spain? With how many inhabitants? Were they fortified? And how many leagues apart were they? Those are the questions that Ferdinand Columbus tried to answer in his Vocabulary containing the names of the places and kingdoms of Spain. The present edition reconstructs the "cosmographic" endeavor of Christopher Columbus’ youngest son based on two codices from the Biblioteca Capitular y Colombina of Seville.