Cruzando la raya 4: Coursebook of spanish for lusofalantes [ B2-B2+]

Authors

Susana Gil Llinás
Department of Linguistics and Literatures UÉ
Claudia González Rivas
Department of Linguistics and Literatures
Keywords: Spanish Language, B1-B1 , Language Manual, learning Spanish, 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 3 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 Llinás, Department of Linguistics and Literatures UÉ

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.

Claudia González Rivas , Department of Linguistics and Literatures

Claudia González Rivas has a degree in Hispanic Philology from the University of Oviedo and two Master's in Hispanic Studies (from Villanova University) and Teaching Spanish as a Foreign Language (from the UNED). She has taught at various American universities, worked as an interpreter for the Clinic for Asylum, Refugee & Emigrant Services (CARES) at Villanova Law, and was a Spanish Lecturer for the “Fundación Ramón Areces” program at University of Évora until 2024. In addition to this, she published her first novel, Golden Galaxy Tour, in 2016. 

Cruzando la raya 4
Published
June 27, 2024

Details about this monograph

Co-publisher's ISBN-13 (24)
978-972-778-401-1