Liberté: A First Year French Textbook
[electronic resource].

Description

Language(s)

English

Published

9/18/2008.

Subjects

Foreign Languages / Grammar, Foreign Languages / Speaking, Foreign Languages / Listening comprehension.
French, Romance Languages.
French language, foreign language, second language, romance language, French conversation, French grammar, Liberte, OGT+ isbn: 9781616100506.

Summary

Liberté is a free French language textbook for first-year college students. Please note that an instructor guide is included as a downloadable attachment. The textbook's features include: 1) Each chapter is built around communicative strategies. Clearly defined objectives in communication, culture, and grammar are given at the start of each chapter, and summary exercises at the end allow students to measure their mastery of these objectives. 2) The exercises in the in-class (A) sections are composed mainly of guided practice and extension activities, along with occasional comprehension checks and comprehensible input. Some further activities are indicated in the instructor’s marginal notes. The teacher can provide teacher directed “setting-the-stage” activities, comprehension checks, and further comprehensible input before beginning each section. Many models are provided to the students to give them a secure context in which to practice their vocabulary before they are asked to produce independent language. 3) The grammar included is explained in a more narrative form and in more detail than is typical for first-year textbooks. The grammar (B) sections should be read by the students outside of class before the communicative activities requiring those grammar points are done in class. By providing more explicit grammatical detail than is usual in a first-year book, the author hopes to stimulate students to reflect on the grammar of their own language as well as of French, helping students to become aware that their study of French is not just about mastery of a new language and culture, but about a more critical view of their own. 4) The amount of grammar is less than is typically contained in a first-year text. The grammar included has been chosen to meet the needs of the communicative goals of each chapter, and these have been selected based on what a student ranking intermediate-low to -mid on the ACTFL oral proficiency scale should be able to accomplish. The grammatical concepts included in this book focus on those that will be needed for the sentences and questions that a typical low-intermediate speaker can form, and those are emphasized repeatedly. 5) The book implicitly and explicitly recycles material from previous chapters on a regular basis, so that students can see their learning as a continual progression rather than as a rush from one grammar point to the next.

Note

http://florida.theorangegrove.org/og/file/4a4a6ebe-cce2-9920-fff9-910425c58b6f/1/french_student.pdf
http://www.lightandmatter.com/french/
Textbook
Gretchen Angelo
Adobe PDF Reader
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Community College, Higher Education
Expositive

ISBN

9781616100506

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