Ouvertures: Cours Intermediaire de Francais, Workbook/Lab Manual , 4ème Édition

by Siskin, H. Jay; Field, Thomas T.; Storme, Julie A.

• ISBN13: 9780471478652
• ISBN10: 0471478652
• Edition: 4th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-12-16
• Publisher: WILEY

Summary

Ouvertures uses culture as the organizing principle to its communicative approach in the teaching of speaking, reading, listening, and writing. It offers content-based instruction where a cultural theme serves as a unifying element within each chapter. It also promotes a contrastive approach to culutre that encourages (self-)exploration rather than judgments. And, finally, Ouvertures seeks to provide a manageable amount of material while paying throrough and appropriately distributed attention to all five skills.

Author Biography

H. Jay Siskin (Ph.D., Cornell University) is Director of the Language Lab at Cabrillo College. He has published extensively in language pedagogy, with research interests in the culture of the foreign language classroom, methodology and technology.

Thomas T. Field (Ph.D., Cornell University) is Director of he Center for the Humanities at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. He writes and speaks on French and Occitan, language in society, multimedia computing, and the teaching of culture.

Julie A. Storme (Ph.D., Northwestern University) is Associate Professor of French at Saint Mary's College in Notre Dame, Indiana. Her areas of specialization include content-based instruction, reading skills, and cross-cultural diversity.

Table of Contents

Au seuil de la culture: L2enfant et la famille

Passage vers la communication: Perspectives interculturelles

Acces a la formation de l2esprit: L2enseignement

Perspectives sur l2exil: L2immigration et l2assimilation

Revelations audiovisuelles: Les medias et les valeurs

Cles de la vie politique: Identites ethniques et nationales

Regards sur la diversite: Conflits linguistiques et culturels

Fenetre ouverte sur les paysages: Villes et campagnes

Portes ouvertes ou fermees?: Differences de classe

Ouvertures permanentes: contacts entre les cultures

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