Cruzando la raya 1: Coursebook of spanish for lusofalantes (A1-A2)

Authors

Susana Gil Linás

Department of Linguistics and Literatures

Adriana Martins-Frias

Keywords: Spanish Language, A1-A2, Language Manual, Spanish learning, Portuguese speakers

Synopsis

The proximity between Spanish and Portuguese is both an advantage and a drawback for Portuguese-speaking students who are beginning to study Spanish. The similarities between both languages allow learners to advance easily through the initial levels of Spanish, but, at the same time, cause recurrent interference mistakes that are commonly shared. Taking these peculiarities into account, the Cruzando la Raya 1 coursebook was created for university students of Spanish whose mother tongue is Portuguese. This coursebook follows a communicative and contrastive approach by offering explanations, semantic notes or exercises that emphasize the similarities and differences between Spanish and Portuguese in order to promote a more effective learning of the Spanish language.

Author Biographies

Susana Gil Linás, Department of Linguistics and Literatures

Susana Gil Llinás holds a Master's degree in Applied Linguistics and Translation from the University of Évora, where she has been teaching Spanish for over two decades. She has long experience of teaching all levels of the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages, both in the 1st and 2nd cycles of higher education. She has published in Spain several translations of essays and fiction by Portuguese authors such as Carlos Reis, Dulce Simões or Pedro Garcia Rosado, for publishers such as Grijalbo, La umbría y la solana and Editora Regional de Extremadura.

Adriana Martins-Frias

Adriana Martins-Frias has a PhD in “Arts and Humanities” from the University of Navarra where she graduated and completed a double Master’s Degree in Teaching and Teaching Spanish and English as foreign languages. She received a final degree award, she was a Spanish teacher at the ILCE (University of Navarra) and a Spanish Lecturer of “Fundación Ramón Areces” program at University of Évora until 2021. She teaches Spanish to secondary students and is currently working in the areas of Humanities with an emphasis of Spanish and Portuguese Languages and Literatures and Gender Studies

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Published

February 25, 2022

Details about the available publication format: ISBN

ISBN

ISBN-13 (15)

978-972-778-234-5