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501 Spanish Verbs by Kendris (Hauppauge, NY: Barron's Educational Series, Inc., ©1990)

The American Heritage Spanish Dictionary: Spanish/English — English/Spanish (Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., ©1986)

Appleton's New Cuyas Dictionary: Spanish/English — English/Spanish (Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, ©1972)

Catalan Dictionary — English/Catalan — Catalan/English (London: Routledge, ©1993 by Bibliograf, S.A.)

Catalònia, no. 39, October 1994
culture magazine published by Centre UNESCO de Catalunya (Barcelona); in English with reprint of original articles in Catalán.

Cuthbertson's Verb Wheel (Lexington, MA: D.C. Heath, 1933)
gives conjugations of irregular verbs.

Diccionario comercial: Inglés — Español/Español — Inglés (Barcelona: Editorial Juventud, ©?)

Diccionario de dudas y dificultades de la lengua española — 9a edición (Madrid: Espasa Calpe, ©1986)

Diccionario panhispánico de dudas (Bogotá, Colombia: Distribuidora y Editora Aguilar, Altea, Taurus, Alfaguara, S.A., ©2005)

Diccionario de uso del español, seguna edición edited by María Moliner (Madrid: Editorial Gredos, ©1998)

Directorio latino, 2nd ed., March 2004 — Metro Boston (Northboro, MA: Spanish Marketing, c. 2004)
2004 Spanish Community Guide and Yellow Pages for the Boston, MA area; 248 pages.

En parejas by Lucía Caycedo Garner, Debbie Rusch and Marcela Domínguez (Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., ©1991)
a four-book series of communicative activities; designed to supplement introductory and intermediate college-level Spanish courses, each book contains 25 information gap activities intended to be used by students working in pairs; each book, formatted in two sections designated as "student a" and "student b" (the latter printed upside down); for each activity, information available to "student a" differs from that accessed by "student b," thus creating the information gap to be bridged.

English Grammar for Students of Spanish, 3rd edition by Emily Spinelli (Ann Arbor, MI: The Olivia and Hill Press, ©1994)

Esbozo de una nueva gramática de la lengua española by the Real Academia Española (Comisión de Gramática) (Madrid: Editorial Espasa Calpe, S.A., ©1973)

España '93, no. 238, diciembre
revista de la Oficina de Información Diplomática

¡Español con impacto!: Total Physical Response Spanish by Contee Seely (Berkeley, CA: Command Performance Language Institute, ©1985)
student text of 35 Spanish-language lessons to be learned using the Total Physical Response methodology; 50 pages.

Eyewitness Travel Guide: Spain (©1996, 1997 DK Publishing, Inc.)

A Gesture Inventory for the Teaching of Spanish by Jerald R. Green (Philadelphia: Chilton Company, ©1968)
presentation of illustrated and documented data on peninsular Spanish gesture, with the focus on gestures which normally accompany verbal communication; gestures that function as a substitute or replacement for linguistic behavior are not studied; 114 pages.

A Guidebook for Teaching Foreign Language: Spanish, French, German by Beverly S. Wattenmaker and Virginia Wilson (Boston: Allyn and Bacon, ©1980)
a guidebook for teaching communication in any language with language-specific lesson models in Spanish, French and German; each chapter outlines behavior objectives with corresponding grammar objectives and includes teaching and communication exercises designed to achieve these objectives; 298 pages.

Ideas: Estrategias, lecturas, actividades y composiciones by James F. Lee, Alex Binkowski, and Bill VanPatten (New York: McGraw-Hill, Inc., ©1994)
190-page book of journalistic and literary readings with corresponding exercises and activities designed to stimulate oral discussion and/or written response by second or third-year students of Spanish.

Más (New York: Univision Publications, © 1992, 1993)
back issues of bimonthly Spanish-language magazine similar in format to Peopleand Seventeenmagazines; regular features include: gente, moda, belleza, sabor, en familia, salud, automóviles, deportes, música, cultura, medios, caliente, en el cielo (horoscope).

The Massachusetts Hispanic Yellow Pages 1994-1995 (Sus Páginas Amarillos) (© Spanish Publishing Services)
682-page telephone directory (yellow pages) in Spanish with listings and advertisements of special interest to Spanish speakers or students of Spanish.

Mexico's Copper Canyon by Richard D. Fisher with Luis G. Verplancken, SJ and Kit Williams (Tucson, AZ: Sunracer Publications, ©1997)
108-page photographic study of the Copper Canyon area of Chihuahua, Mexico, its history, its topography, its people; includes essays on the Tarahumara Indians, religious customs, major towns and villages of Chihuahua, travel tips, etc.; mix of texts in English and Spanish.

Natural Language Learning by Harris Winitz, James Reeds and Paul García (Kansas City, MO: General Linguistics Corporation, ©1975)
Spanish language learning program that teaches understanding of language by focusing exclusively on listening comprehension; includes 4 volumes of images, each with accompanying audiocassette in Spanish; student is to listen to audiocassette and relate what he/she hears to what he/she sees by marking the appropriate image; Spanish-language script also available; approximately 3 hours 42 minutes (total time).

A New Reference Grammar of Modern Spanish, 2nd edition by John Butt and Carmen Benjamin (London: Edward Arnold, ©1988,1994)

Oxford — Duden Pictorial Spanish and English Dictionary, 2nd edition (Oxford: Clarendon Press, ©1995)

Pequeño Larousse ilustrado: Español/Español (Paris: Librairie Larousse, ©1964)

Pequeño Larousse ilustrado: Español/Español (Marsella, México: Ediciones Larousse, ©1985)

A Picture is Worth... 1000 Words... Books 1 and 2 by Anthony Mollica (Welland, Ontario: éditions Soleil publishing, inc., ©1992)
subtitled Creative activities for the language classroom, the two volumes of 60 photographs each are intended to provide visual stimuli for discussion and conversation activity in the language classroom; also available = Teacher's Guide (by Anthony Mollica, Julie Ashcroft, and Anne-Marie Finger) containing questions for each photograph.

Un poco de historia: The Heath Spanish History Bookletby María Juana Cazabón (Lexington, MA: D.C. Heath, ©1989)
a 58 page easy-to-access reference guide providing cultural and historical information on Spain and Spanish America; topics include: (1) highlights of Iberian history, politics, literature and monuments; (2) vignettes on Spanish explorers and historical figures; (3) background and terminology for sports and traditions; in English.

A Practical Guide to the Teaching of Spanish by Wilga Rivers, Milton Azevedo, William Heflin, Ruth Hyman-Opler (New York: Oxford University Press, ©1976)
one in a series of practical guides for teaching foreign languages in high school or at the undergraduate level; includes theoretical discussions of and practical applications for oral communication, pronunciation, grammar instruction, listening and reading comprehension, and writing; 352 pages.

Sabor Magazine, volume IV, Spring 1998 edited by Danielle Birriel, Karen Montenegro, and Edith Maya, volume V, 1999 edited by Karen Montenegro, volume IX, 2004, Alicia Heredia, editor-in-chief
publication of the Boston College Latino student community in association with the Organization of Latin American Affairs; designed to showcase and promote Latino culture through original works of art, poetry and prose; features student writings (in Spanish and English), photography and art work.

Simon and Schuster's International Dictionary — English/Spanish — Spanish/English (New York: Simon and Schuster, ©?)

Spain: Boletín Cultural No. 239, June 2003 (Dirección General de la Oficina de Información Diplomática, Ministerio de Asuntos Exteriores — Embassy of Spain Cultural Office)
compilation of reprints of Spanish newspaper articles on the following topics: Letras, Historias, Generales, Artes, Música, Cine y Teatro, Libros; 72 pages.

Spain: Boletín Cultural No. 240, July-August 2003 (Dirección General de la Oficina de Información Diplomática, Ministerio de Asuntos Exteriores — Embassy of Spain Cultural Office)
compilation of reprints of Spanish newspaper articles on t he following topics: Letras, Historias, Generales, Artes, Música, Cine y Teatro, Libros; 96 pages.

Spanish Grammar through Actions by Eric J. Schessler (Los Gatos, CA: Sky Oaks Productions, ©1985)
book of Total Physical Response exercises designed to teach grammatical structures to beginning and intermediate-level language students; 95 pages.

Spanish Teacher's Book of Instant Word Games by Josephine Carreño (West Nyack, NY: The Center for Applied Research in Education, ©1996)
over 160 ready-made activites, puzzles and worksheets for beginning-level Spanish clsses.

Viajes Fantásticos by Elías Miguel Muñoz (NY; McGraw-Hill, Inc., ©1994)
two novelas from McGraw-Hill's Storyteller's Series; provides students of beginning Spanish with comprehensible material to be used as leisure or pleasure reading; in Mi querida cuñada,Vicente, the protagonist, gets a glimpse of his future life during a mysterious trip in Puerto Rico from San Juan to Quebradillas, his hometown; in El último sol, Daniel Flores, a young Mexican student, is transported back through the centuries to the time of the Dicovery and faced with confronting Hernán Cortés and changing the course of history; 2 copies available.

Word by Word: English/Spanish Picture Dictionary — Diccionario ilustrado de inglés by Steven J. Molinsky, Bill Bliss and Herlinda Charpentier Saitz (Upper Saddle River, NJ; Prentice Hall Regents, ©1995)