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Welcome to Vista Higher Learning's new introductory French program ESPACES: Rendez-vous avec le monde francophone. ideal for 2-3 semester sequence, ESPACES features a flexible lesson organization designed to meet the needs of diverse teaching styles, institutions, and instructional goals. in French, espaces means spaces in the sense of spaces reserved for a particular purpose. The spaces in ESPACES are its major sections, and they are reserved for helping students to learn French and to explore the cultures of the French-speaking world in the most user-friendly way possible. The textbook treats vocabulary and grammar as tools for effective communication, incorporates learning strategy instruction to develop students' skills, and emphasizes culture as integral to learning the language and communicating successfully. * Distinctive integration of video Shot in France, the ESPACES video provides three hours of specially-shot, program-specific video. integrated up-front in each lesson of the student text, a dramatic episode reinforces the lesson's vocabulary and previews its grammatical points in an appealing, comprehensible way. At the end of each unit, the Flash culture segments, hosted by the ESPACES narrators, enrich students' cultural knowledge through a wide array of images, all related to the unit's theme. * Unique, user-friendly design ESPACES enhances learning with its one-of-a-kind, easy-to-navigate design built around color-coded sections that fit either completely on one page or on spreads of two facing pages. To further motivate and support students, the textbook pages are visually dramatic, and ressources boxes correlate all program ancillaries on-page, right down to thepage numbers. * Rich, contemporary cultural presentation in each lesson of ESPACES, a vibrant Espace culture section brings to life the everyday life, language, accomplishments, and traditions of French speakers as they relate to the lesson's theme. At the end of each unit, an eye-catching P