How do you …? Use film viewing to enhance students’ language comprehension?

by charlottelr | May 19, 2014 | 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...

How do you …? Use film viewing to enhance students’ analytical skills?

by charlottelr | Oct 10, 2013 | 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...

All the motivation you need to learn languages: a relaxing cup of “café con leche”

by Wendy Newman | Oct 10, 2013 | Spanish Practice, Spanish updates, Spanish Zone

Irene Macias (University of Bath) Anyone who follows what goes on in Spain can’t have failed to read about , or indeed seen footage of, Madrid’s Mayor Ana Botella’s (or Annie Bottle, as she has been quickly nicknamed), now infamous speech to the Olympic Committee...

Dos unidades didácticas: “No es país para jóvenes” y “¿Hora de hacer las maletas?”. Un acercamiento a la realidad social de los jóvenes españoles.

by Wendy Newman | Oct 10, 2013 | Spanish Practice, Spanish Zone

María García Florenciano (University of Leeds e Instituto Cervantes de Leeds) and Juan Muñoz López (University of Leeds y Leeds Metropolitan University) UNIDAD DIDÁCTICA 1 “NO ES PAÍS PARA JÓVENES” Resumen Material concebido para estudiantes universitarios que...

Translating interactional humour into Spanish: idiom, scope, polysemy, homonymy and near-homonymy in the decoding and recoding of humour

by charlottelr | Oct 10, 2013 | 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...

Noticiario

by charlottelr | Oct 10, 2013 | Spanish Practice, 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...