Packaged with the student text this audio CD features both dramatic readings and paused recordings of chapter conversations, unrehearsed interviews with... native speakers, and pronunciation practice of chapter vocabulary.

Heritage Spanish speakers looking to enhance their ability to converse in the language will find just what they need in this text. It deals with... contemporary cultural and community topics with the help of engaging essays. Questions about the readings provoke further thought. Writing activities based on the essays help them write in Spanish as they take a stand on an issue. These activities range from focused practicing to short pieces and a major essay. Each chapter contains a minimum of two readings, each presenting different aspects of a particular debate on topics. Heritage Spanish students will also better be able to utilise vocabulary as they learn to become stronger speakers

Heritage Spanish speakers looking to enhance their ability to converse in the language will find just what they need in this text. It deals with... contemporary cultural and community topics with the help of engaging essays. Questions about the readings provoke further thought. Writing activities based on the essays help them write in Spanish as they take a stand on an issue. These activities range from focused practicing to short pieces and a major essay. Each chapter contains a minimum of two readings, each presenting different aspects of a particular debate on topics. Heritage Spanish readers will also better be able to utilise vocabulary as they learn to become stronger speakers.

This book contains writings in Spanish about universal topics of importance and interest, such as abortion, capital punishment, and euthanasia. It can... provide thought-provoking and interesting reading, as well as helping the Spanish-as-a-second-language readers learn to think in Spanish, not mentally translate to and from English. Completely written in Spanish, this book covers such universally interesting topics as marriage, abortion, euthanasia, suicide, smoking, capital punishment, and more. It also contains vocabulary explanations in Spanish. Designed to promote readers to not only read Spanish, but to think in Spanish, this book is useful for employees in companies where a working knowledge of conversational Spanish is necessary.

Conversación y controversia encourages the exploration of “free expression” in Spanish on universal topics of importance and interest. Promoting a... free exchange of ideas in the classroom, this text allows students to develop their oral conversation and confidence in a friendly atmosphere, rather than by having the “right answer” or reviewing grammatical concepts.   The universally appealing chapter topics show the great similarity among cultures. These help students examine and express their own opinions and beliefs, on basic yet important issues of life. A natural, direct approach, written completely in Spanish without translations, encourages students to “think” in Spanish and break away from mentally translating to or from English.   In this new edition, the majority of topics have been retained, with updates reflecting current social and political realities. Additionally, three new topics have been added: Faith and Science, Climate Change, and Governments and Politics.

CONVERSACIÓN Y REPASO, Tenth Edition, is part of a three-volume INTERMEDIATE SPANISH series that gives you a thorough review of grammatical structures... and helps you communicate with confidence in Spanish. You'll quickly learn to use and develop reading, writing, speaking, and listening skills through a variety of activities and exercises for conversation.

CONVERSACIÓN Y REPASO, Tenth Edition, is part of a three-volume INTERMEDIATE SPANISH series that gives you a thorough review of grammatical structures... and helps you communicate with confidence in Spanish. You'll quickly learn to use and develop reading, writing, speaking, and listening skills through a variety of activities and exercises for conversation.

An intensive, well thought out two-volume beginning course for adult learners. The lessons develop an 800-word vocabulary and 301 basic conversational... sentence patterns. On completion, the student should be able to carry on simple conversations, and will have acquired a solid foundation for further study. For classes and self-study, with simplified characters. Also available are three CD's to accompany the text.

Much of the scholarly exchange regarding the history of women in rhetoric has emphasized women’s rhetorical practices. In Conversational Rhetoric: The... Rise and Fall of a Women’s Tradition, 1600–1900, Jane Donawerth traces the historical development of rhetorical theory by women for women, studying the moments when women produced theory about the arts of communication in alternative genres—humanist treatises and dialogues, defenses of women’s preaching, conduct books, and elocution handbooks. She examines the relationship between communication and gender and between theory and pedagogy and argues that women constructed a theory of rhetoric based on conversation, not public speaking, as a model for all discourse. Donawerth traces the development of women’s rhetorical theory through the voices of English and American women (and one much-translated French woman) over three centuries. She demonstrates how they cultivated theories of rhetoric centered on conversation that faded once women began writing composition textbooks for mixed-gender audiences in the latter part of the nineteenth century. She recovers and elucidates the importance of the theories in dialogues and defenses of women’s education by Bathsua Makin, Mary Astell, and Madeleine de Scudéry; in conduct books by Hannah More, Lydia Sigourney, and Eliza Farrar; in defenses of women’s preaching by Ellen Stewart, Lucretia Mott, Catherine Booth, and Frances Willard; and in elocution handbooks by Anna Morgan, Hallie Quinn Brown, Genevieve Stebbins, and Emily Bishop. In each genre, Donawerth explores facets of women’s rhetorical theory, such as the recognition of the gendered nature of communication in conduct books, the incorporation of the language of women’s rights in the defenses of women’s preaching, and the adaptation of sentimental culture to the cultivation of women’s bodies as tools of communication in elocution books. Rather than a linear history, Conversational Rhetoric follows the starts, stops, and starting over in women’s rhetorical theory. It covers a broad range of women’s rhetorical theory in the Anglo-American world and places them in their social, rhetorical, and gendered historical contexts. This study adds women’s rhetorical theory to the rhetorical tradition, advances our understanding of women’s theories and their use of rhetoric, and offers a paradigm for analyzing the differences between men’s and women’s rhetoric from 1600 to 1900.