by Wendy Newman | Jul 10, 2015 | Spanish Culture, Spanish Practice, Spanish Zone |
Basil Turner, High Wycombe Language students should be encouraged to have ganas or at least a positive attitude to acquiring them. The pithy Spanish modismo using gana may be used positively as in ‘tengo ganas de estudiar el español’, meaning I am keen to study...
by Wendy Newman | May 19, 2014 | Spanish Culture, Spanish Practice, Spanish Zone |
Carlos Sanz Mingo (Cardiff University) La Guerra Civil española ha sido fuente inagotable de material para el cine español, que hizo uso de la misma desde poco después de terminar el conflicto (por ejemplo, Raza, de 1942). Las largas vacaciones del 36 (1976) marca un...
by Wendy Newman | May 19, 2014 | Spanish Culture, Spanish Practice, Spanish Zone |
Alfredo Herrero de Haro (University of Wollongong, Australia) In this article I will be looking at ways of using films to enhance students’ language comprehension, following on from the How do you…? section in the previous issue of Vida Hispánica, -henceforth Herrero...
by Wendy Newman | May 19, 2014 | Spanish Culture, Spanish Practice, Spanish Zone |
Irene Macías (University of Bath) “Mañana en el instituto” es un relato corto destinado a las etapas de aprendizaje de KS4 y KS5 (niveles B1-B2 según el MCER). El objetivo es facilitar el aprendizaje lingüístico acercando a los estudiantes a la realidad de una...
by Wendy Newman | Oct 10, 2013 | Spanish Culture, Spanish Practice, Spanish Zone |
Alfredo Herrero de Haro (University of Wollongong, Australia) Many teachers, and I have been one of them, treat listening skills as something that is innate and that can be neither learnt nor taught. That is, as something that students either can or cannot do, and as...
by Wendy Newman | Oct 10, 2013 | Portuguese articles, Spanish Culture, Spanish Practice, Spanish Zone |
Solange A. Lopes-Murphy (Indiana State University) INTRODUCTION Cross-cultural interactions define life in many societies around the globe, including the United States (Rivera, Greggory, and Ward, 2010). The great mobility that exists in the world today gives us...
by Wendy Newman | Oct 10, 2013 | Portuguese articles, Spanish Culture, Spanish Practice, Spanish Zone |
Maria José Veiga (Researcher at the University of Aveiro, Transmedia Portugal) INTRODUCTION In the second half of the 20th century, foreign language teaching methods within the Portuguese Education system have proved to be translation resistant. By the end of the...
by Wendy Newman | Oct 10, 2013 | Spanish Culture, Spanish Practice, Spanish Zone |
Guadalupe García González, University of Nottingham INTRODUCTION The translation of humour depends on procedures different from those involved in translation in general, because a full comprehension and appreciation of humoristic patterns is required before the...
by Wendy Newman | Oct 10, 2013 | Spanish Culture, Spanish updates, Spanish Zone |
Irene López Rodríguez (Liceo Europeo, Madrid, Spain) INTRODUCCIÓN En la España del Siglo de Oro el papel de la mujer se circunscribe al locus doméstico gobernado por una figura masculina, ya sea el padre o el marido. Las aspiraciones personales y familiares de la...
by Wendy Newman | Oct 10, 2013 | Spanish Culture, Spanish updates, Spanish Zone |
Mike Zollo (Totnes) Having spent a total of almost three months in Spain so far this year, I have been able to glean many of the items below from Spanish television and from the experiences of everyday life, rather than relying just on the Internet. Once again, I have...
by Wendy Newman | May 3, 2013 | Spanish Culture, Spanish updates, Spanish Zone |
Beatriz Gómez Acuña, John Taylor (Elmhurst College, USA) INTRODUCCIÓN ¿Cómo es la España del año 2013? Muchas personas contestarán esta pregunta usando adjetivos como pluralista, democrática, progresiva, liberal o globalizada. Sin duda, España es una sólida democracia...
by Wendy Newman | May 3, 2013 | Spanish Culture, Spanish Practice, Spanish updates, Spanish Zone |
John C. McIntyre (Glasgow) INTRODUCTION Though the trawl below takes a lot of preparation (around 40 hours per month of reading and editing), there are bonuses. From day to day and week to week a developing major issue allows constant reinforcement of the core...
