<P style="MARGIN: 0px"><B><I>Contemporary Portuguese Language - The Way You Want To Teach It</I></B></P> <P style="MARGIN: 0px"> </P> <P style="MARGIN: 0px"><B><I>Ponto de Encontro </I></B>is the first Portuguese language textbook that allows the instructor to choose to teach either Brazilian or European Portuguese. </P> <P style="MARGIN: 0px"> </P> <P style="MARGIN: 0px">The Second Edition of this best-selling text is <B>completely updated to reflect the 1990 <I>Acordo Ortográfico</I> (spelling reform)</B>, ensuring students learn how to accurately read and write in Portuguese today. </P> <P style="MARGIN: 0px"> </P> <P style="MARGIN: 0px"><B>Teaching & Learning Experience </B></P> <UL> <LI> <DIV style="MARGIN: 0px"><B>Balanced, Communicative Approach</B> — Students learn to communicate effectively in spoken and written Portuguese through a variety of guided and open ended activities. <I>Ponto </I>integrates cultural information and promotes exchange at every stage of instruction.</DIV> <LI> <DIV style="MARGIN: 0px"><B>Connect with Culture </B>- Offers learners a rich variety of insights into cultural, social and political realities of the entire Portuguese-speaking world. </DIV> <LI> <DIV style="MARGIN: 0px"><B>Explore Grammar </B>- Grammatical structures are presented as a means to effective communication.</DIV> <LI> <DIV style="MARGIN: 0px"><B>Build Vocabulary </B>- Tight integration of vocabulary and grammar presentation and exercises reinforce the focus on usage and real-life situations.</DIV> <LI> <DIV style="MARGIN: 0px"><B>Develop Skills </B>- Extensive culture-based sections create authentic and meaningful environments for skill-development in each area: listening, speaking, reading and writing.</DIV> <LI> <DIV style="MARGIN: 0px"><B>Personalize Learning </B>— MyLanguageLabs' proven results are now available for elementary Portuguese courses! MyPortugueseLab will be available for fall 2012 courses.</DIV></LI></UL> <DIV></DIV> <P style="MARGIN: 0px"><B>Note: </B>MyLanguageLabs does not come automatically packaged with this text. To purchase MyLanguageLabs access, please visit: or you can purchase a valuepack of the text + MyLanguageLabs 24-month access.</P>