Mais Oui! - Softcover

Thompson, Chantal P.; Hirsch, Bette G.; Phillips, Elaine M.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0395956021 ISBN 13: 9780395956021

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin College Div, 1999

Synopsis

This text offers a unique, motivating approach to discovering the French language and the French-speaking world. A series of carefully crafted tasks help students develop their critical-thinking skills and take control of their own learning.There are 12 chapters, plus one Chapitre complémentaire that includes a listening passage and a reading. The Culture et réflexion section, included in each chapter, presents information about the parts of the French-speaking world that relate to the chapter's theme.Vocabulaire actif boxes throughout the text help students learn the new vocabulary introduced in each section. End-of-chapter vocabulary lists include English definitions.En général activities have been placed before reading selections to increase student comprehension.A text-specific web site includes task-based search activities, an extensive syllabus with chapter-by-chapter teaching suggestions, links to authentic French sit

About this title

About the Author

Chantal Peron Thompson is a native of Quimper, France. She graduated valedictorian from one of the largest high schools in France (le Lycee de Kerichen a Brest) and developed a love of writing under the spell of the wind-swept coast of Brittany. At age sixteen, she was National Champion of France in the long jump. She went on to attend the University of Rennes and came to the United States to perfect her English and attend graduate school. She ended up getting married and staying! She has been on the faculty at Brigham Young University since 1973 and has earned many teaching awards. The latest is a distinguished University Professorship (1998-2008). She founded the African Studies Program at Brigham Young University and has taken several groups of students to Senegal. She currently directs first-year French courses and trains and supervises a team of fifteen to eighteen student instructors each semester. Thompson is a certified ACTFL Tester and Trainer and conducts workshops worldwide on teaching and testing for proficiency. Her speaking engagements have included keynote addresses at major conferences from Salem, Oregon, to Bangkok, Thailand. She has also presented a series of ACTFL webinars (March-April 2011). Thompson is the primary author of MAIS OUI! a first-year French text (Houghton Mifflin/Cengage Learning 1996, 2000, 2004, 2009, 2012); ENSUITE, a second-year text (McGraw-Hill, 1989, 1993, 1998, 2003); and MOMENTS LITTÉRAIRES, a literary anthology for intermediate-level courses (Heinle/Cengage Learning, 1992, 2006).

Elaine M. Phillips has an M.A. in French literature and a Ph.D. in Foreign Language Education from the University of Texas at Austin. Her career in foreign language education spans more than thirty years including teaching French in an American high school in Germany and in college and junior college in Texas. She also supervised and taught methods courses for student teachers and graduate courses in Foreign Language Education at UT Austin. Her previous experience as director of the LOTE Center for Educator Development focused on foreign language standards implementation and professional development for in-service teachers. She served as Project Director for the 2007 Texas Language Summit, which assessed economic, social, and cultural imperatives for language competency in Texas for the National Security Education Program, co-authoring LANGUAGE ROADMAP FOR THE 21ST CENTURY: TEXAS. Phillips is currently a language education and evaluation consultant.

Language Notes

Text: French, English

About this edition

• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin College Div
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0395956021
• ISBN 13: 9780395956021
• Binding: Paperback