9.1040, Books: Multimedia Language Courses

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LINGUIST List:  Vol-9-1040. Thu Jul 16 1998. ISSN: 1068-4875.

Subject: 9.1040, Books: Multimedia Language Courses

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Date:  Thu, 16 Jul 1998 11:56:06 -0400
From:  papa at routledge.com (Matthew Papa)
Subject:  New books: Multimedia Language Courses

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Date:  Thu, 16 Jul 1998 11:56:06 -0400
From:  papa at routledge.com (Matthew Papa)
Subject:  New books: Multimedia Language Courses

     These exciting, easy-to-use multimedia language courses (Chinese,
     French, Portuguese and Spanish) offer 20 interactive lessons covering
     a range of everyday travel, business, and leisure situations.
     Developed from the highly successful print and audio series, these
     courses feature sound, academically-proven principles for acquiring
     the skills to speak the language with comfort and ease.

     Features:
     --   wide range of exercise types for interactive learning, lots of
     material per unit: word  order, matching, multiple choice, drag and
     fill, listening comprehension, record and play back (so you can
     perfect your accent), roleplay, translation, and writing
     --  flexible: go at your own pace, clicking on words or phrases to
     listen to them again, using the sound controls, taking time to record
     and listen to yourself. Reset the screen (Write, Fill in Blank and
     Matching screens) to clear your answers and start again
     --  variety of ways to listen to audio material: use sound controls to
     play entire recording, stopping or pausing wherever you choose, or
     simply click on all words and phrases in blue
     --  easy navigation: with buttons, menus and onscreen instructions.
     Also a history feature (Back button)to return to previous screen
     accessed
     --  each lesson is a self contained unit, with easy-to-follow
     color-coded exercise types (Pronunciation, Exercises and Situations).
     If the user prefers, s/he can use the List Screens feature on the
     Resources menu which lists all screen types and enables user to
     practise a particular exercise type
     --  extensive support material: user guide with annotated screen
     graphics, online help, tutorial  (from Help menu), introduction to and
     instructions for every screen, language point  (grammar) index for
     each lesson, comprehensive vocabulary list with translation (can hide
     translation to test your knowledge), keyword search facility,
     irregular verb list (all from Resources menu)
     --  fully searchable grammatical support (Language Points) accessible
     at any time: from all   exercise screens, toolbar or menu
     --  Character, Radical, Tones and Strokes (Chinese only)
     --  talking dictionary (Chinese only)
     --  dialogues with translation (Chinese has characters, pinyin and
     English)

     ***Note: For PC platforms

     Kan Qian, COLLOQUIAL CHINESE CD-ROM
     A Multimedia Language Course
     Routledge: 1998
     CR: 0 415 14291 1: #D2498: $75.00

     Alan Moys, COLLOQUIAL FRENCH CD-ROM
     A Multimedia Language Course
     Routledge: 1998
     CR: 0 415 14290 3: #D2501: $75.00

     Barbara McIntyre and Joao Sampaio, COLLOQUIAL PORTUGUESE CD-ROM
     A Multimedia Language Course
     Routledge: 1998
     CR: 0 415 14289 X: #D2499: $75.00

     Untza Oatala Alday, COLLOQUIAL SPANISH CD-ROM
     A Multimedia Language Course
     Routledge: 1998
     CR: 0 415 14195 8: #D2502: $75.00


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            Publisher's backlists

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1998 Contributors:

Major Supporters:

Addison Wesley Longman
	http://www.awl-he.com/linguistics/
Blackwell Publishers
	http://www.blackwellpublishers.co.uk/
Cambridge University Press
	http://www.cup.cam.ac.uk/
Edinburgh University Press
	http://www.eup.ed.ac.uk/
Garland Publishing
	http://www.garlandpub.com/
Holland Academic Graphics (HAG)
	http://www.hag.nl
John Benjamins Publishing Company
	http://www.benjamins.com/
	http://www.benjamins.nl/
Lawrence Erlbaum Assoc.
	http://www.erlbaum.com/inform.htm
MIT Press (Books Division)
Mouton de Gruyter
	http://www.deGruyter.de/hling.html
Oxford University Press
	http://www.oup.co.uk/
Routledge
	http://www.routledge.com/
Summer Institute of Linguistics
	http://www.sil.org/

Other Supporting Publishers:

Cascadilla Press:
        http://www.cascadilla.com/
Cassel
CSLI Publications:
	http://csli-www.stanford.edu/publications/
Francais Practique
	http://www.pratique.fr/
Lodz University, Department of English Language
Torino, Rosenberge & Sellier
Utrech Institute of Linguistics	


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