Francais-Monde: Connectez-Vous a la Francophonie

Français-Monde engages learners with meaningful and relevant language in a real-world context to ensure they develop communicative competence in French.

Reflecting the five goals of the National Standards and their related objectives, Français-Monde is uniquely designed to help learners develop cross-cultural competence in a rich and flexible framework by providing tightly integrated exposure to real-world culture, language and technology.

Real Culture

• Focus on contemporary culture that helps learners analyze why they do what they do, and understand different cultural perspectives of people from the French speaking world.
• Integrated video follows French university students using natural, contemporary and authentic language as they perform every day functions.
• Vocabulary exposes student to words in use by today’s French-speaking people.
• Thematic readings drawn from a variety of genres and resources, such as magazine articles, blogs posts, surveys, songs, poems, essays, prepare students to experience language in the real-world contexts.

Real Language

• Learners are encouraged to demonstrate their cultural and linguistic competence via a culminating project at the end of each chapter.
• Students are prepared for a wide range of real-life situations, likely to be encountered in any Francophone country, by being exposed to authentic language in spoken and written form.
• Integrated video follows French university students using natural, contemporary and authentic language as they perform every day functions.

The ISBN above if for the standalone book, if you want the book/etext and Access Card order the ISBN below:

0205057268 / 9780205057269 Français-Monde: Connectez-vous à la francophonie & MyFrenchLab with Pearson eText/Access Card for Français-Monde: Connectez-vous à la francophonie (24-month access)Package

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0135031842 / 9780135031841 Français-Monde: Connectez-vous à la francophonie

0205767834 / 9780205767830 MyFrenchLab with Pearson eText -- Access Card -- for Français-Monde: Connectez-vous à la francophonie (24-month access)

Français-Monde engages learners with meaningful and relevant language in a real-world context to ensure they develop communicative competence in French.

Reflecting the five goals of the National Standards and their related objectives, Français-Monde is uniquely designed to help learners develop cross-cultural competence in a rich and flexible framework by providing tightly integrated exposure to real-world culture, language and technology.

Real Culture

• Focus on contemporary culture that helps learners analyze why they do what they do, and understand different cultural perspectives of people from the French speaking world.
• Integrated video follows French university students using natural, contemporary and authentic language as they perform every day functions.
• Vocabulary exposes student to words in use by today’s French-speaking people.
• Thematic readings drawn from a variety of genres and resources, such as magazine articles, blogs posts, surveys, songs, poems, essays, prepare students to experience language in the real-world contexts.

• Learners are encouraged to demonstrate their cultural and linguistic competence via a culminating project at the end of each chapter.
• Students are prepared for a wide range of real-life situations, likely to be encountered in any Francophone country, by being exposed to authentic language in spoken and written form.
• Integrated video follows French university students using natural, contemporary and authentic language as they perform every day functions.

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Robert Ariew, Ph.D., Professor of French in the Department of French and Italian and Member of the Second Language Acquisition and Teaching Ph.D. Program at the University of Arizona. He has a Ph.D. in French from the University of Illinois. He subsequently taught at the Pennsylvania State University where he also served as Basic Language Coordinator. He joined the faculty at the University of Arizona in 1988. He is the co-author of Chère Françoise with Jeannette Bragger (Houghton Mifflin), C'est à dire with Anne Nerenz (Heinle), Par ici with Anne Nerenz (DC Heath), Premiers Echanges with Anne Nerenz (Heinle) as well as readers and software for the teaching of French. He is also the author of articles on the use of technology in the teaching of foreign languages.

Béatrice Dupuy, Ph.D., is Associate Professor of Foreign Language Educatio and French in the Department of French & Italian, French Language Program Director, and a faculty member of the Interdisciplinary Ph.D. program in Second Language Acquisition and Teaching (SLAT) at the University of Arizona. She also co-directs the Center for Educational Resources in Culture, Language, and Literacy, a center funded by the U.S. Department of Education. After receiving her Ph.D. in Language, Literacy, and Learning from the University of Southern California, she taught in the Department of French Studies at Louisiana State University where she also served as Language Program Director. In Fall 2002, she joined the faculty at the University of Arizona. She teaches undergraduate courses in French and graduate courses in second language acquisition. She has published articles on content-based language teaching, extensive reading, and project-based language learning.