Aula América 1

Collectes the contents presented in the class: Mitos y realidades sobre el español en el Uruguay dictated at the Facultad de Información y Comunicación, Universidad de la República.

An exciting new entry in the beginning Spanish market, Entrevistas (Interviews) fulfills the market demand for an innovative treatment of culture within a four-skills approach. A manageable fifteen chapters, Entrevistas has as its principal objective the development of communicative language proficiency. Entrevistas sets itself apart from other first-year Spanish texts through the integration and treatment of authentic (real) speech samples in the text, video, audio, and website.

"Explica el significado y evolución de cada palabra y cada acepción por siglos, con la autoridad de más de 1500 autores medievales, renacentistas, modernos y contemporáneos, la comprobación de sesenta dicionarios preacadémicos, del célebre Diccionario de Autoridades de 1726 (6 vols.), de las dieciocho ediciones del Diccionario Académico (1780 a 1956) y de más de quinientos diccionarios y glosarios de especialidades" (t.p.).

The research of this thesis was completed within the framework Chomskian's Principles and Parameters model of acquisition. A detailed analysis of individual production of null-subjects and pronouns in non-native Spanish speakers was carried out in order to determine its relationship with verbal morphology. The fact that the production data available to us for this thesis is part of the investigation project "Classroom Second Language Acquisition: Beyond Parameters," directed by the professor Juana Munoz Liceras, and that this study is a longitudinal analysis of the acquisition of Spanish by...