Discover languages early. Students develop conversational skills in four foreign languages and develop a foundation to more fully participate in future language study.
Through multicultural stories, games and songs, students engage in activities that build overall language skills and their appreciation of different cultures. Curriculum Skills
* Develop conversational phrasing
* Understand basic vocabulary
* Discover sentence structuring
* Hear and speak special pronunciations
Special Features
* Four languages: French, Japanese, Spanish, and English
Conversational Capital: How to Create Stuff People Love to Talk About
"In The Tipping Point, Malcolm Gladwell presents an important idea without any 'how to.' Now Bertrand Cesvet provides the 'how to' you need to create 'Tipping Points' for your business and success. This book is a compelling presentation of a powerful idea. This is how the new world will do business. Highly recommended if you care about your future." Stewart Emery, coauthor of international best-seller Success Built to Last "Ultimately, magic is unexplainable.
To understand the role of language in public life and the social process in general, we need first a closer understanding of how linguistic knowledge and social factors interact in discourse interpretation. This volume is a major advance towards that understanding. Professor Gumperz here synthesizes fundamental research on communication from a wide variety of disciplines and develops an original and broadly based theory of conversational inference which shows how verbal communication can serve either between individuals of different social and ethnic backgrounds.
Conversation analysis is a methodology that originated over three decades ago as a sociolinguistic approach but has since been adopted by scholars in a variety of other areas, including applied linguistics and communication. It is of great utility in second language acquisition research for its demonstrations of how micro-moments of socially distributed cognition instantiated in conversational behavior contribute to observable changes in the participants' states of knowing and using a new language.
The Word by Word Picture Dictionary presents vocabulary through lively, full-color illustrations and an outstanding array of innovative support materials. The unique conversational approach of this picture dictionary gives students communication practice with every word on the page.
