Discovering and Developing Talents in Spanish-Speaking Students

Author: Joan F. Smutny
Publisher: Corwin Press
ISBN: 1412996368
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 217

Book Description
As the population of Hispanic students grows, itÆs more important than ever to persevere beyond the language barrier and nature these studentsÆ gifts and talents. This book provides teachers and leaders with the skills needed to uncover each childÆs abilities and ultimately boost achievement for Spanish-speaking students. Packed with strategies, suggestions, and materials teachers can immediately use to enhance instruction and assessment, this book shows how to

Bilingual Language Development & Disorders in Spanish-English Speakers

Author: Brian Goldstein
Publisher: Brookes Publishing Company
ISBN: 9781598571714
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
The revised edition of this comprehensive graduate-level text gives SLPs the most current information on language development and disorders of Spanish-English bilingual children. Includes 5 new chapters on literacy and other hot topics.;

Developing Writing Skills in Spanish

Author: Javier Muñoz-Basols
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 0415590825
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 379

Book Description
Developing Writing Skills in Spanish is designed to be used as a classroom text, self study material, or simply as a resource on writing. It provides intermediate and advanced level students of Spanish with the necessary skills to become competent and confident writers in the Spanish language.

How to Improve Your Foreign Language Immediately

Author: Boris Shekhtman
Publisher: M S I Press
ISBN: 9780967990750
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 104

Book Description
This book provides a unique set of tools designed to enhance an individual's success in communicati0n in a foreign language environment. The devices presented allow the speaker of a foreign language to demonstrate the level of his/her language more impressively. These techniques were developed and tested by the author with adult professionals in such varied fields as journalism, diplomacy, government, and international business.

Spanish, Grades 6 - 12

Author: Downs
Publisher: Carson-Dellosa Publishing
ISBN: 1604185023
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 130

Book Description
Support Spanish acquisition using Skills for Success: Spanish for grades 6–12. Students can use the activities in this 128-page book on their own or in addition to any Spanish program. The exercises are presented in a range of formats that help students acquire everyday Spanish vocabulary. The book includes vocabulary lists, reproducible storybooks, a pronunciation key, and an answer key.

Fluent Forever

Author: Gabriel Wyner
Publisher: Harmony
ISBN: 038534810X
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 352

Book Description
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • For anyone who wants to learn a foreign language, this is the method that will finally make the words stick. “A brilliant and thoroughly modern guide to learning new languages.”—Gary Marcus, cognitive psychologist and author of the New York Times bestseller Guitar Zero At thirty years old, Gabriel Wyner speaks six languages fluently. He didn’t learn them in school—who does? Rather, he learned them in the past few years, working on his own and practicing on the subway, using simple techniques and free online resources—and here he wants to show others what he’s discovered. Starting with pronunciation, you’ll learn how to rewire your ears and turn foreign sounds into familiar sounds. You’ll retrain your tongue to produce those sounds accurately, using tricks from opera singers and actors. Next, you’ll begin to tackle words, and connect sounds and spellings to imagery rather than translations, which will enable you to think in a foreign language. And with the help of sophisticated spaced-repetition techniques, you’ll be able to memorize hundreds of words a month in minutes every day. This is brain hacking at its most exciting, taking what we know about neuroscience and linguistics and using it to create the most efficient and enjoyable way to learn a foreign language in the spare minutes of your day.

Language Development and Disorders in Spanish-speaking Children

Author: Alejandra Auza Benavides
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 331953646X
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 361

Book Description
Prominent researchers from the US, Mexico, Chile, Colombia and Spain contribute experimental reports on language development of children who are acquiring Spanish. The chapters cover a wide range of dimensions in acquisition: comprehension and production; monolingualism and bilingualism; typical development, children who are at risk and children with language disorders, phonology, semantics, and morphosyntax. These studies will inform linguistic theory development in clinical linguistics as well as offer insights on how language works in relation to cognitive functions that are associated with when children understand or use language. The unique data from child language offer perspectives that cannot be drawn from adult language. The first part is dedicated to the acquisition of Spanish as a first or second language by typically-developing children, the second part offers studies on children who are at risk of language delays, and the third part focuses on children with specific language impairment, disorders and syndromes.

Language Patterns in Spanish and Beyond

Author: Juan J. Colomina-Almiñana
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000193144
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 321

Book Description
The scholarly articles included in this volume represent significant contributions to the fields of formal and descriptive syntax, conversational analysis and speech act theory, as well as language development and bilingualism. Taken together, these studies adopt a variety of methodological techniques—ranging from grammaticality judgments to corpus-based analysis to experimental approaches—to offer rich insights into different aspects of Ibero-Romance grammar. The volume consists of three parts, organized in accordance with the topics treated in the chapters they comprise. Part I focuses on structural patterns, Part II analyzes pragmatic ones, and Part III investigates the acquisition of linguistic aspects found in the speech of L1, L2 and heritage speakers. The authors address these issues by relying on empirically rooted linguistic approaches to data collection, which are coupled with current theoretical assumptions on the nature of sentence structure, discourse dynamics and language acquisition. The volume will be of interest to anyone researching or studying Hispanic and Ibero-Romance linguistics.

Madrigal's Magic Key to Spanish

Author: Margarita Madrigal
Publisher: Crown
ISBN: 0385410956
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 513

Book Description
Use the English you already know to quickly learn the basics of Spanish with this unique, accessible guide featuring original illustrations by Andy Warhol—from one of America’s most prominent language teachers. Read, write, and speak Spanish in only a few short weeks! Even the most reluctant learner will be astonished at the ease and effectiveness of Margarita Madrigal’s unique method of teaching a foreign language. Completely eliminating rote memorization and painfully boring drills, Madrigal’s Magic Key to Spanish is guaranteed to help you: • Learn to speak, read, and write Spanish quickly and easily • Convert English into Spanish in an instant • Start forming sentences after the very first lesson • Identify thousands of Spanish words within a few weeks of study • Travel to Spanish-speaking countries with confidence and comfort • Develop perfect pronunciation, thanks to a handy pronunciation key With original black-and-white illustration by Andy Warhol, Madrigal’s Magic Key to Spanish will provide readers with a solid foundation upon which to build their language skills.

Indestructibles: Love You, Baby

Author: Amy Pixton
Publisher: Workman Publishing
ISBN: 1523501227
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 11

Book Description
Hug, kiss, nuzzle, snuggle, bounce, rock: There are so many ways to show your love to baby! Share the love on each spread with simple text prompts and adorable illustrations of baby animals and their families, from cats to bears to bunnies. With over two million copies in print, Indestructibles are the books built for the way babies read. They are 100 percent baby-proof, chew-proof, rip-proof, and drool-proof. Printed on a unique nontoxic, paperlike material that holds up to anything babies can throw at it—gumming, spilling, dragging across the floor—Indestructibles are the little books that could. They’re indestructible. And if they get dirty, just throw them in the dishwasher.