Ponto de Encontro

For courses in elementary Portuguese.

Contemporary Portuguese language - The way you want to teach it Ponto de Encontro: Portuguese as a World Language is the first Portuguese language textbook that allows the instructor to choose to teach either Brazilian or European Portuguese. The 2nd edition of this best-selling text is completely updated to reflect the 1990 Acordo Ortográfico (spelling reform), ensuring students learn how to...
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For courses in elementary Portuguese.

Contemporary Portuguese language - The way you want to teach it
Ponto de Encontro: Portuguese as a World Language is the first Portuguese language textbook that allows the instructor to choose to teach either Brazilian or European Portuguese. The 2nd edition of this best-selling text is completely updated to reflect the 1990 Acordo Ortográfico (spelling reform), ensuring students learn how to accurately read and write in Portuguese today.

Teaching and learning experience

• Balanced, communicative approach: Students learn to communicate effectively in spoken and written Portuguese through a variety of guided and open-ended activities.  Ponto integrates cultural information and promotes exchange at every stage of instruction.
• Connect with culture: Offers learners a rich variety of insights into cultural, social, and political realities of the entire Portuguese-speaking world.
• Explore grammar: Grammatical structures are presented as a means to effective communication.
• Build vocabulary: Tight integration of vocabulary and grammar presentation and exercises reinforce the focus on usage and real-life situations.
• Develop skills: Extensive culture-based sections create authentic and meaningful environments for skill-development in each area: listening, speaking, reading, and writing.