"Experiencias offers carefully sequenced activities, pre-tested in the authors' own classes, that focus on personal interaction and real communication. All face-to-face activities are easily adaptable for digital environments and writing assignments. Recycling Throughout both volumes, Experiencias incorporates activities that recycle previously learned material but with new topics, which allows students to continue mastering vocabulary and structures encountered earlier in the program"--
Follow Daniel around the Spanish-speaking world as he guides students through this innovative new language course Experiencias: Beginning Spanish is a dynamic and innovative introductory Spanish course that builds students’ language competency and offers realistic language encounters, so they can begin communicating in Spanish as early as possible. In Experiencias: Beginning Spanish, students meet Daniel, a native Spanish speaker who guides them through the learning process. For each chapter, there is a video episode of Daniel’s “how to” show, where he interviews his Spanish-speaking friends about authentic topics of interest to today’s students. The Experiencias course focuses on connecting language with culture, engaging students with content related to the perspectives of native speakers. Each chapter focuses on a different country, integrating grammar and vocabulary into real-world units that will give students a sense of excitement and wonder. Additional pedagogical features include an emphasis on metacognitive learning strategies, a reduced grammatical syllabus that leaves room for extra work on challenging areas, and content recycling throughout the text for enhanced language mastery. Takes students on a journey through the Spanish-speaking world, featuring a different country in each chapter Offers innovative pedagogical techniques and activities drawn from the authors’ own classroom research Engages students with a focus on culture, practical communication, and video interviews with native Spanish speakers Develops oral and written communication skills through authentic tasks structured by the ACTFL Proficiency Guidelines With WileyPLUS for Experiencias: Beginning Spanish, students have access to an enhanced e-text featuring videos, audio recordings, interactive vocabulary exercises, educational animations, links to additional resources, and more. This text is an excellent choice for today’s beginning Spanish speakers, whether in traditional or online classroom environments.
Most of us have been perplexed by a strange sense of familiarity when doing something for the first time. We feel that we have been here before, or done this before, but know for sure that this is impossible. In fact, according to numerous surveys, about two-thirds of us have experienced déjà vu at least once, and most of us have had multiple experiences. There are a number of credible scientific interpretations of déjà vu, and this book summarizes the broad range of published work from philosophy, religion, neurology, sociology, memory, perception, psychopathology, and psychopharmacology. This book also includes discussion of cognitive functioning in retrieval and familiarity, neuronal transmission, and double perception during the déjà vu experience.
Drawing on the first systematic study of cultural capital in contemporary Britain, Culture, Class, Distinction examines the role played by culture in the relationships between class, gender and ethnicity. Its findings promise a major revaluation of the legacy of Pierre Bourdieu’s account of the relationships between class and culture.
The Routledge Handbook of Events explores and critically evaluates the debates and controversies associated with the rapidly expanding domain of Event Studies. It brings together leading specialists from a range of disciplinary backgrounds, to provide a state-of-the-art review on the evolution of the subject. The first edition was a landmark study which examined how event research had evolved and developed from a range of different social science subject areas and disciplines. The Handbook was the first critique of the extent to which the subject had developed into a major area of social science inquiry. This second edition has been fully updated to reflect crucial developments in the field and includes brand new sections on ever-important aspects of Event Studies such as: anthropology, hospitality, seasonality, knowledge management, accessibility, diversity and human rights, as well as new studies on ‘the eventful city’ and the benefits of events in older life. The book is divided into four inter-related sections. Section 1 introduces and evaluates the concept of events. Section 2 critically reviews the relationship between events and other disciplines such as the contribution of economics, psychology and geography to the critical discourse of Event Studies. Section 3 focuses on the business, operational and strategic management of events, while the final section crucially focuses on critical events as a new paradigm within the burgeoning literature on Events. It offers the reader a comprehensive and critical synthesis of this field, conveying the latest thinking associated with events research, edited by two of the leading scholars in the field. The text will provide an invaluable resource for all those with an interest in Events Studies, encouraging dialogue that will span across disciplinary boundaries and other areas of study. It is an essential guide for anyone interested in events research.
This volume focuses on the consumption experience, the way it happens, and on the phenomenon of consumer experience. The authors highlight the need to let the consumers construct their own experiences.
