Contacts Instructor's Annotated Edition Author:Jean-Paul Valette, Rebecca M. Valette The Instructor's Annotated Edition (IAE) provides marginal annotations with teaching suggestions, expanded information on structures taught, and other helpful information. — (From Introduction) To the instructor: Bienvenue! — Welcome to the completely revised Eighth Edition of Contacts! As you will note, this new edition has been substantially enh... more »anced and modified. Our guiding objective in developing the new program was to provide a fresh approach reflecting the realities and communication needs of the new millennium while maintaining the highly effective logical progression and clear organization of the earlier editions. Thus, in response to the requests of many teachers, we have added new sections focusing on the cultures of the French-speaking world and reinforcing the communication skills needed in daily-life contexts.« less