Amor por sorpresa

The student participates in activities in which procedural contents identified as language functions and reading strategies are included. These are necessary to develop the competencies of reading, understanding, writing and expressing oneself in English.

This book takes a four-skills approach to the further development of language proficiency beyond the basics. Opiniones provides readers with an audio library—unscripted, native speakers talking about familiar topics—that expose the reader to different aspects of culture, dialectal differences and speech patterns. For those already familiar with the basics of Spanish.

El objetivo de este libro es proponer diversas estrategias didácticas que favorezcan la enseñanza del léxico en el aula de español como lengua extranjera. La autora de este manual reflexiona sobre qué se entiende por competencia léxica y analiza los medios de aprendizaje que favorecen su adquisición. Al mismo tiempo, el volumen presenta una orientación esencialmente práctica, como reflejan las actividades de comprensión oral y escrita que se incluyen al final de cada capítulo y el solucionario donde se encuentran las respuestas a tales ejercicios. En definitiva, esta obra...

This innovative textbook fulfills the needs of upper-division Spanish students who are pursuing degrees in the health professions, plan to become medical interpreters or just want to improve their proficiency in the language. It provides multiple opportunities to learn vocabulary related to the medical field, reviews hard-to-understand grammatical concepts, describes health-related cultural competence and presents opportunities to discuss issues of concern about the health of Hispanic communities in the US and abroad.