Wynne Wong is Professor of French and Director of French Language Instruction at The Ohio State University, where she oversees French language instruction and graduate teaching associate training. She has published widely in second language acquisition, with particular contributions to research on French, Processing Instruction, structured input, and the relationship between theory, research, and classroom practice. Her article with Bill VanPatten, THE EVIDENCE IS IN: DRILLS ARE OUT (Foreign Language Annals, 2003), received the Stephen A. Freeman Award. Dedicated to building bridges between theory and practice, she is lead author of LIAISONS and ENCORE and author or co-editor of several books, including INPUT ENHANCEMENT: FROM THEORY AND RESEARCH TO THE CLASSROOM (McGraw-Hill, 2005), FOCUSING ON FORM IN LANGUAGE INSTRUCTION (with D. Simard, Routledge, 2015), and THE ROUTLEDGE HANDBOOK OF SECOND LANGUAGE ACQUISITION AND INPUT PROCESSING (with J. Barcroft, 2024). Stacey Weber-Fève is Morrill Professor of French and World Film Studies at Iowa State University. She is a specialist of French cinema and has published books and articles on women’s filmmaking, life writing, and cinematic comedy. An award-winning teacher dedicated to "bridging the gap" between "language teachers" and "literature professors," she has also published and presented on the teaching of the French language, culture, literature, and film through integrated approaches and input-to-output processes at all levels of the foreign language curriculum. She is co-author of the textbooks, LIAISONS (Cengage, 2013, 2017, 2020) and ENCORE (Cengage, 2018, 2020). She is also a recipient of ACTFL’s Nelson Brooks award (2015) and Excellence in World Language Instruction Using Technology award (2025) and a recipient of AATF’s Dorothy Ludwig Excellence in Teaching Award (2017). Anne Lair is a Professor/Lecturer of French at the University of Utah, where she directs the French Basic Language Program, and collaborates with the Second Language Teaching and Research Center (L2TReC). She serves as French Bridge Curriculum Director and State French Coordinator. Previously, she was French Dual Language Immersion Coordinator and later Secondary French DLI Coordinator. She has led workshops across Utah and nationwide, earning recognition including the ACTFL Nelson Brooks Award (2012), Chevalier dans l’Ordre des Palmes Académiques (2017), and AATF Dorothy Ludwig Award (2020). She has published articles on food symbolism in Europe and co-authored Invitation au monde francophone, Liaisons (3rd edition) and Encore. She is President of the Alliance Française of Salt Lake City and Honorary Consul of France in Utah. Bill VanPatten is Professor of Second Language Studies at Michigan State University where he also directs the Spanish and French language programs. An international scholar with numerous awards for research, leadership, and teaching, Professor VanPatten is known not only for his work on theory and research in second language acquisition but also for the implications of second language research for language teaching.

• CHAPITRE PRÉLIMINAIRE: PREMIÈRES RENCONTRES.Vocabulaire: Nos amis francophones; Premières impressions. Grammaire: Idiomatic expressions with être and avoir; futur proche; present tense of stem-changing verbs; depuis; the imperative.1. LES SYMBOLES.Vocabulaire: La fleur de lys; graffiti, tag, tatouages, henna. Grammaire: The present tense of the irregular verbs offrir, plaire, soutenir, construire, servir; Definite, indefinite, and partitive articles; Pronominal verbs: reflexive, reciprocal, and idiomatic; s’agir de. Les cultures francophones: Que signifie la Tour Eiffel?; Le tatouage des îles Marquises. Lecture: Calligrammes, Guillaume Apollinaire (poems).2. LES VALEURS.Vocabulaire: Quelques valeurs du monde francophone; poser des questions sur des valeurs, c’est une bonne idée? Grammaire: Prepositions of location and for modes of transportation; the pronoun y; interrogative adverbs; the interrogative adjective quel; Interrogative pronouns. Les cultures francophones: Le Québec chante ses valeurs; Zachary Richard chante les valeurs des Amériques. Lecture: Les filles de Caleb, Arlette Cousture (excerpt from a novel).3. LA FAMILLE.Vocabulaire: La famille française en pleine évolution; L’influence de la famille sur qui nous sommes. Grammaire: Possessive adjectives and possessive pronouns; agreement and position of irregular adjectives; pronominal adjectives; le passé composé with avoir and être (including irregular past participles and reflexive verbs). Les cultures francophones: Vie de famille et une carrière professionnelle; l’adoption, un autre concept de la famille. Lecture: “Entretien avec Nathalie Monsaint-Baudry: L’éducation française, un modèle unique et supérieur?” (excerpt from a magazine interview).4. L’IDENTITÉ.Vocabulaire: Défense de l’identité culturelle; l’identité personnelle. Grammaire: Direct object pronouns with the present, the passé composé, and commands; the pronoun en; Indirect object pronouns with the present, the passé composé, and commands; The conditional: irregular verbs; double object pronouns. Les cultures francophones: Jamel Debbouze, humoriste d’identité franco-marocaine; Lalla Essaydi, photographe marocaine: L’identité de la femme. Lecture: Ru, Kim Thúy (excerpt from a novel).5. L’AMITIÉ.Vocabulaire: Et pour vous, qu’est-ce que l’amitié?; De la camaraderie à l’amitié. Grammaire: The passé composé of courir, rire, suivre, mourir, conduire, savoir, connaître; time expressions (pendant, depuis, il y a (que), ça fait que, voilà que); Adverbs: categories of; position; The imparfait and the passé compose. Les cultures francophones: L’amitié franco-québécoise; L’amitié entre les nations. Lecture: Une si longue lettre, Mariama Bâ (excerpt from a novel).6. LES APPARENCES.Vocabulaire: L’apparence physique dans le monde francophone; Notre apparence physique en fonction des circonstances. Grammaire: Comparatives and superlatives (nouns, adjectives, adverbs); Relative pronouns (qui, que, dont), and indefinite relative pronouns (ce qui, ce que, ce dont); Plus-que-parfait (form and use). Les cultures francophones: Chanel, symbole de l’élégance; La voile: mode (musulmane) ou religion. Lecture: La parure, Guy de Maupassant (excerpt from a short story).7. LES DÉFIS.Vocabulaire: Quelques défis du monde francophone; La vie n’est pas un long fleuve tranquille. Grammaire: The subjunctive: expressing obligation, will, and emotion; The subjunctive and the indicative expressing: opinion, doubt, and uncertainty; The subjunctive with conjunctions; the past subjunctive. Les cultures francophones: La langue française et ses défis; La rage de Katrina. Lecture: Entretien avec le chanteur Corneille: Corneille raconte son drame (excerpt from an online interview).8. LA CONFIANCE.Vocabulaire: Confiance ou méfiance?; Faire confiance aux gens. Grammaire: Futur simple (regular, spelling-change, irregular forms; usage); Negative expressions; Demonstrative pronouns (celui, celle, ceux, celles, ceci, cela, ça); the pronou

Wynne Wong is Professor of French and Director of French Language Instruction at The Ohio State University, where she oversees French language instruction and graduate teaching associate training. She has published widely in second language acquisition, with particular contributions to research on French, Processing Instruction, structured input, and the relationship between theory, research, and classroom practice. Her article with Bill VanPatten, THE EVIDENCE IS IN: DRILLS ARE OUT (Foreign Language Annals, 2003), received the Stephen A. Freeman Award. Dedicated to building bridges between theory and practice, she is lead author of LIAISONS and ENCORE and author or co-editor of several books, including INPUT ENHANCEMENT: FROM THEORY AND RESEARCH TO THE CLASSROOM (McGraw-Hill, 2005), FOCUSING ON FORM IN LANGUAGE INSTRUCTION (with D. Simard, Routledge, 2015), and THE ROUTLEDGE HANDBOOK OF SECOND LANGUAGE ACQUISITION AND INPUT PROCESSING (with J. Barcroft, 2024). Stacey Weber-Fève is Morrill Professor of French and World Film Studies at Iowa State University. She is a specialist of French cinema and has published books and articles on women’s filmmaking, life writing, and cinematic comedy. An award-winning teacher dedicated to "bridging the gap" between "language teachers" and "literature professors," she has also published and presented on the teaching of the French language, culture, literature, and film through integrated approaches and input-to-output processes at all levels of the foreign language curriculum. She is co-author of the textbooks, LIAISONS (Cengage, 2013, 2017, 2020) and ENCORE (Cengage, 2018, 2020). She is also a recipient of ACTFL’s Nelson Brooks award (2015) and Excellence in World Language Instruction Using Technology award (2025) and a recipient of AATF’s Dorothy Ludwig Excellence in Teaching Award (2017). Anne Lair is a Professor/Lecturer of French at the University of Utah, where she directs the French Basic Language Program, and collaborates with the Second Language Teaching and Research Center (L2TReC). She serves as French Bridge Curriculum Director and State French Coordinator. Previously, she was French Dual Language Immersion Coordinator and later Secondary French DLI Coordinator. She has led workshops across Utah and nationwide, earning recognition including the ACTFL Nelson Brooks Award (2012), Chevalier dans l’Ordre des Palmes Académiques (2017), and AATF Dorothy Ludwig Award (2020). She has published articles on food symbolism in Europe and co-authored Invitation au monde francophone, Liaisons (3rd edition) and Encore. She is President of the Alliance Française of Salt Lake City and Honorary Consul of France in Utah. Bill VanPatten is Professor of Second Language Studies at Michigan State University where he also directs the Spanish and French language programs. An international scholar with numerous awards for research, leadership, and teaching, Professor VanPatten is known not only for his work on theory and research in second language acquisition but also for the implications of second language research for language teaching.

• CHAPITRE PRÉLIMINAIRE: PREMIÈRES RENCONTRES.Vocabulaire: Nos amis francophones; Premières impressions. Grammaire: Idiomatic expressions with être and avoir; futur proche; present tense of stem-changing verbs; depuis; the imperative.1. LES SYMBOLES.Vocabulaire: La fleur de lys; graffiti, tag, tatouages, henna. Grammaire: The present tense of the irregular verbs offrir, plaire, soutenir, construire, servir; Definite, indefinite, and partitive articles; Pronominal verbs: reflexive, reciprocal, and idiomatic; s’agir de. Les cultures francophones: Que signifie la Tour Eiffel?; Le tatouage des îles Marquises. Lecture: Calligrammes, Guillaume Apollinaire (poems).2. LES VALEURS.Vocabulaire: Quelques valeurs du monde francophone; poser des questions sur des valeurs, c’est une bonne idée? Grammaire: Prepositions of location and for modes of transportation; the pronoun y; interrogative adverbs; the interrogative adjective quel; Interrogative pronouns. Les cultures francophones: Le Québec chante ses valeurs; Zachary Richard chante les valeurs des Amériques. Lecture: Les filles de Caleb, Arlette Cousture (excerpt from a novel).3. LA FAMILLE.Vocabulaire: La famille française en pleine évolution; L’influence de la famille sur qui nous sommes. Grammaire: Possessive adjectives and possessive pronouns; agreement and position of irregular adjectives; pronominal adjectives; le passé composé with avoir and être (including irregular past participles and reflexive verbs). Les cultures francophones: Vie de famille et une carrière professionnelle; l’adoption, un autre concept de la famille. Lecture: “Entretien avec Nathalie Monsaint-Baudry: L’éducation française, un modèle unique et supérieur?” (excerpt from a magazine interview).4. L’IDENTITÉ.Vocabulaire: Défense de l’identité culturelle; l’identité personnelle. Grammaire: Direct object pronouns with the present, the passé composé, and commands; the pronoun en; Indirect object pronouns with the present, the passé composé, and commands; The conditional: irregular verbs; double object pronouns. Les cultures francophones: Jamel Debbouze, humoriste d’identité franco-marocaine; Lalla Essaydi, photographe marocaine: L’identité de la femme. Lecture: Ru, Kim Thúy (excerpt from a novel).5. L’AMITIÉ.Vocabulaire: Et pour vous, qu’est-ce que l’amitié?; De la camaraderie à l’amitié. Grammaire: The passé composé of courir, rire, suivre, mourir, conduire, savoir, connaître; time expressions (pendant, depuis, il y a (que), ça fait que, voilà que); Adverbs: categories of; position; The imparfait and the passé compose. Les cultures francophones: L’amitié franco-québécoise; L’amitié entre les nations. Lecture: Une si longue lettre, Mariama Bâ (excerpt from a novel).6. LES APPARENCES.Vocabulaire: L’apparence physique dans le monde francophone; Notre apparence physique en fonction des circonstances. Grammaire: Comparatives and superlatives (nouns, adjectives, adverbs); Relative pronouns (qui, que, dont), and indefinite relative pronouns (ce qui, ce que, ce dont); Plus-que-parfait (form and use). Les cultures francophones: Chanel, symbole de l’élégance; La voile: mode (musulmane) ou religion. Lecture: La parure, Guy de Maupassant (excerpt from a short story).7. LES DÉFIS.Vocabulaire: Quelques défis du monde francophone; La vie n’est pas un long fleuve tranquille. Grammaire: The subjunctive: expressing obligation, will, and emotion; The subjunctive and the indicative expressing: opinion, doubt, and uncertainty; The subjunctive with conjunctions; the past subjunctive. Les cultures francophones: La langue française et ses défis; La rage de Katrina. Lecture: Entretien avec le chanteur Corneille: Corneille raconte son drame (excerpt from an online interview).8. LA CONFIANCE.Vocabulaire: Confiance ou méfiance?; Faire confiance aux gens. Grammaire: Futur simple (regular, spelling-change, irregular forms; usage); Negative expressions; Demonstrative pronouns (celui, celle, ceux, celles, ceci, cela, ça); the pronou

Wynne Wong is Professor of French and Director of French Language Instruction at The Ohio State University, where she oversees French language instruction and graduate teaching associate training. She has published widely in second language acquisition, with particular contributions to research on French, Processing Instruction, structured input, and the relationship between theory, research, and classroom practice. Her article with Bill VanPatten, THE EVIDENCE IS IN: DRILLS ARE OUT (Foreign Language Annals, 2003), received the Stephen A. Freeman Award. Dedicated to building bridges between theory and practice, she is lead author of LIAISONS and ENCORE and author or co-editor of several books, including INPUT ENHANCEMENT: FROM THEORY AND RESEARCH TO THE CLASSROOM (McGraw-Hill, 2005), FOCUSING ON FORM IN LANGUAGE INSTRUCTION (with D. Simard, Routledge, 2015), and THE ROUTLEDGE HANDBOOK OF SECOND LANGUAGE ACQUISITION AND INPUT PROCESSING (with J. Barcroft, 2024). Stacey Weber-Fève is Morrill Professor of French and World Film Studies at Iowa State University. She is a specialist of French cinema and has published books and articles on women’s filmmaking, life writing, and cinematic comedy. An award-winning teacher dedicated to "bridging the gap" between "language teachers" and "literature professors," she has also published and presented on the teaching of the French language, culture, literature, and film through integrated approaches and input-to-output processes at all levels of the foreign language curriculum. She is co-author of the textbooks, LIAISONS (Cengage, 2013, 2017, 2020) and ENCORE (Cengage, 2018, 2020). She is also a recipient of ACTFL’s Nelson Brooks award (2015) and Excellence in World Language Instruction Using Technology award (2025) and a recipient of AATF’s Dorothy Ludwig Excellence in Teaching Award (2017). Anne Lair is a Professor/Lecturer of French at the University of Utah, where she directs the French Basic Language Program, and collaborates with the Second Language Teaching and Research Center (L2TReC). She serves as French Bridge Curriculum Director and State French Coordinator. Previously, she was French Dual Language Immersion Coordinator and later Secondary French DLI Coordinator. She has led workshops across Utah and nationwide, earning recognition including the ACTFL Nelson Brooks Award (2012), Chevalier dans l’Ordre des Palmes Académiques (2017), and AATF Dorothy Ludwig Award (2020). She has published articles on food symbolism in Europe and co-authored Invitation au monde francophone, Liaisons (3rd edition) and Encore. She is President of the Alliance Française of Salt Lake City and Honorary Consul of France in Utah. Bill VanPatten is Professor of Second Language Studies at Michigan State University where he also directs the Spanish and French language programs. An international scholar with numerous awards for research, leadership, and teaching, Professor VanPatten is known not only for his work on theory and research in second language acquisition but also for the implications of second language research for language teaching.

• CHAPITRE PRÉLIMINAIRE: PREMIÈRES RENCONTRES.Vocabulaire: Nos amis francophones; Premières impressions. Grammaire: Idiomatic expressions with être and avoir; futur proche; present tense of stem-changing verbs; depuis; the imperative.1. LES SYMBOLES.Vocabulaire: La fleur de lys; graffiti, tag, tatouages, henna. Grammaire: The present tense of the irregular verbs offrir, plaire, soutenir, construire, servir; Definite, indefinite, and partitive articles; Pronominal verbs: reflexive, reciprocal, and idiomatic; s’agir de. Les cultures francophones: Que signifie la Tour Eiffel?; Le tatouage des îles Marquises. Lecture: Calligrammes, Guillaume Apollinaire (poems).2. LES VALEURS.Vocabulaire: Quelques valeurs du monde francophone; poser des questions sur des valeurs, c’est une bonne idée? Grammaire: Prepositions of location and for modes of transportation; the pronoun y; interrogative adverbs; the interrogative adjective quel; Interrogative pronouns. Les cultures francophones: Le Québec chante ses valeurs; Zachary Richard chante les valeurs des Amériques. Lecture: Les filles de Caleb, Arlette Cousture (excerpt from a novel).3. LA FAMILLE.Vocabulaire: La famille française en pleine évolution; L’influence de la famille sur qui nous sommes. Grammaire: Possessive adjectives and possessive pronouns; agreement and position of irregular adjectives; pronominal adjectives; le passé composé with avoir and être (including irregular past participles and reflexive verbs). Les cultures francophones: Vie de famille et une carrière professionnelle; l’adoption, un autre concept de la famille. Lecture: “Entretien avec Nathalie Monsaint-Baudry: L’éducation française, un modèle unique et supérieur?” (excerpt from a magazine interview).4. L’IDENTITÉ.Vocabulaire: Défense de l’identité culturelle; l’identité personnelle. Grammaire: Direct object pronouns with the present, the passé composé, and commands; the pronoun en; Indirect object pronouns with the present, the passé composé, and commands; The conditional: irregular verbs; double object pronouns. Les cultures francophones: Jamel Debbouze, humoriste d’identité franco-marocaine; Lalla Essaydi, photographe marocaine: L’identité de la femme. Lecture: Ru, Kim Thúy (excerpt from a novel).5. L’AMITIÉ.Vocabulaire: Et pour vous, qu’est-ce que l’amitié?; De la camaraderie à l’amitié. Grammaire: The passé composé of courir, rire, suivre, mourir, conduire, savoir, connaître; time expressions (pendant, depuis, il y a (que), ça fait que, voilà que); Adverbs: categories of; position; The imparfait and the passé compose. Les cultures francophones: L’amitié franco-québécoise; L’amitié entre les nations. Lecture: Une si longue lettre, Mariama Bâ (excerpt from a novel).6. LES APPARENCES.Vocabulaire: L’apparence physique dans le monde francophone; Notre apparence physique en fonction des circonstances. Grammaire: Comparatives and superlatives (nouns, adjectives, adverbs); Relative pronouns (qui, que, dont), and indefinite relative pronouns (ce qui, ce que, ce dont); Plus-que-parfait (form and use). Les cultures francophones: Chanel, symbole de l’élégance; La voile: mode (musulmane) ou religion. Lecture: La parure, Guy de Maupassant (excerpt from a short story).7. LES DÉFIS.Vocabulaire: Quelques défis du monde francophone; La vie n’est pas un long fleuve tranquille. Grammaire: The subjunctive: expressing obligation, will, and emotion; The subjunctive and the indicative expressing: opinion, doubt, and uncertainty; The subjunctive with conjunctions; the past subjunctive. Les cultures francophones: La langue française et ses défis; La rage de Katrina. Lecture: Entretien avec le chanteur Corneille: Corneille raconte son drame (excerpt from an online interview).8. LA CONFIANCE.Vocabulaire: Confiance ou méfiance?; Faire confiance aux gens. Grammaire: Futur simple (regular, spelling-change, irregular forms; usage); Negative expressions; Demonstrative pronouns (celui, celle, ceux, celles, ceci, cela, ça); the pronou