--- Forwarded Message from wroget <[log in to unmask]> --- >Date: Tue, 11 Jun 2002 07:27:46 -0400 >From: wroget <[log in to unmask]> >Reply-To: [log in to unmask] >Organization: Temple University >To: Language Learning and Technology International Information Forum <[log in to unmask]> >Subject: Re: #6713 Beginning French program (TBob) >References: <[log in to unmask]> Take a look at Motifs (Harcourt): it seems to meet your criteria, and we are into the second year using it in a three-semester sequence, with mostly positive results. LLTI-Editor wrote: > --- Forwarded Message from TennesseeBob Peckham <[log in to unmask]> --- > > >Date: Fri, 7 Jun 2002 11:52:19 -0700 > >To: [log in to unmask] > >From: TennesseeBob Peckham <[log in to unmask]> > >Subject: Beginning French program (TBob) > > ------------------ > We are planning for the eventual replacement for Portes Ouvertes (an > outstanding beginning college French textbook, which will probably not see a > second edition). I just finished looking at the CD of another popular > book, and it was clearly and devastatingly inferior to Portes > Ouvertes. The wooden characters are the worst of Jack Webb > impersonators, and dorks to boot, with those eye movements are > characteristic of unwilling actors, still discovering a script. I > keep waiting to see other members of the "Night of the Living Dead" > cast appear, or for one of them to suddenly animated and utter "Live > from New York...". Hey, maybe they are there "en attendant Godot". > > As director of the language resource center (an all Mac lab), I am > responsible for 40% of the time of > all of our language students from sand-pile through 2nd year. I am > looking for a beginning French book which could be used for 3 > semesters, one with a thorough CD and web program with exercises > whose scores or transcripts can be printed out. I want engaging > exercises, reflecting developmental realities and expectations in > text type, topical variety, grammar, etc. Situational realism is > important. It must have good video (no dorky talking heads) and > accompanying activities, which could be used in listening > comprehension tests. Materials should be > integrated so that serious use could be made of each, and so it would > be obvious that they were all part of the same learning experience. > Our successful lab program required 100 minutes of hard work per week > in the lab. Students get zeros for slack time. The textboo0k itself > needs to be right also. Do you know of such a product? > > TBob > > -- > ========================================================== > Look it up in the Andy Holt Virtual Library > http://www.utm.edu/vlibrary/vlhome.shtml > ========================================================== > Robert D. Peckham, PhD > Director, the Globe-Gate Project > Director, the Muriel Tomlinson Language Resource Center > Department of Modern Foreign Languages > Univ. of Tennessee-Martin > http://globegate.org/french/globe.html