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For courses in Elementary FrenchA flexible and dynamic approach to the French language and culture Chez nous: Branché sur le monde francophone offers a flexible, dynamic approach to elementary French that engages students by bringing the French language and the culture of French-speaking people to life. Authors Mary Ellen Scullen, Cathy Pons, and Albert Valdman help students achieve grammatical and communicative competence through pertinent, well-sequenced themes, carefully designed presentations of important structures, and a wealth of opportunities for meaningful student practice. The 5th Edition offers significantly updated content, including coverage of contemporary topics about which students will be excited to converse, as well as a modern, engaging design.Also available with MyLab FrenchMyLabTM is the teaching and learning platform that empowers you to reach every student. By combining trusted author content with digital tools and a flexible platform, MyLab personalizes the learning experience and improves results for each student.Note: You are purchasing a standalone product; MyLab French does not come packaged with this content. Students, if interested in purchasing this title with MyLab French, ask your instructor to confirm the correct package ISBN and Course ID. Instructors, contact your Pearson representative for more information.

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Streamlined for ease of use, focused on student outcomes.  For use in high-beginner or one-semester courses, Points de départ — a 10-chapter version of the bestselling elementary French text, Chez nous — stands apart from other first-year French texts by carefully selecting lexical and cultural content for broad coverage within a highly disciplined framework.  Changes to the Second Edition focus on enhancing student outcomes, including a new design, refinements to the scope and sequence, new strategy boxes, and new comprehension based grammar activities. Also available with MyLab FrenchMyLab™ is the teaching and learning platform that empowers you to reach every student. By combining trusted author content with digital tools and a flexible platform, MyLab personalizes the learning experience and improves results for each student. Note: You are purchasing a standalone product; MyLab French does not come packaged with this content. Students, if interested in purchasing this title with MyLab French, ask your instructor to confirm the correct package ISBN and Course ID. Instructors, contact your Pearson representative for more information. If you would like to purchase both the text and MyLab, search for: 0205879861 / 9780205879861 Points de départ, 2e Plus MyLab French with Pearson eText multi semester -- Access Card Package Package consists of:       0205788408 / 9780205788408 Points de départ, 2/e0205718531 / 9780205718535 MyLab French with Pearson eText -- Access Card -- for Points de départ, 2/e (multi semester access)

The Student Activities Manual includes the Workbook, Lab Manual, and Video Manual and is available in traditional paper format with an optional separate answer key.Workbook exercises provide meaningful and communicative writing practice, incorporating the vocabulary and structures introduced in each chapter and offering additional skill-using activities. The Lab Manual exercises provide listening practice that progresses from comprehension only to production, based on what students hear. The exercises stress authentic speech and real-life tasks. Lab Manual recordings feature native speakers of French. The Video Manual complements the listening practice provided in the textbook using additional video clips and expanded activities on DVD or via MyFrenchLabTM.The SAM is also available in an electronic format via MyFrenchLabTM, which includes all audio and video files and provides immediate correction for most activities.

Topics discussed include: language shift and code mixing speaker attitudes the role of schools and media in the maintenance of these languages and such language planning initiatives as the CODOFIL program to revive the sue of French in Louisiana.

For courses in Elementary French.

Building on the success of earlier editions and anchored in the most current innovations in language instruction, the 4th Edition of Chez nous offers a richly nuanced focus on the Francophone world through a highly integrative and process-oriented approach to the development of language skills that emphasises the “Five C’s” and is consistent with the National Standards.

The 4th Edition Chez nous is a complete elementary French program designed for use at colleges and universities, over two or three terms or semesters. Using a careful progression from skill-developing to skill-using activities and a sophisticated treatment of Francophone culture, the text and its full complement of supplementary materials help students develop listening, reading, speaking, and writing skills as well as insights into other cultures by exposing them to authentic, contemporary French and encouraging them to express themselves on a variety of topics.

Leading specialists on Cajun French and Louisiana Creole examine dialectology and sociolinguistics in this volume, the first comprehensive treatment of the linguistic situation of francophone Louisiana and its relation to the current development of French in North America outside of Quebec. Topics discussed include: language shift and code mixing speaker attitudes the role of schools and media in the maintenance of these languages and such language planning initiatives as the CODOFIL program to revive the sue of French in Louisiana. GBP/LISTGBP

CHRISTINA BRAIT PAULSTON There is an important difference between merely experimental and genuine experiment. The one may be a feeling for novelty, the other is rationally based on experience seeking a better way. - Frank Lloyd Wright Wright was talking about architecture, but the same difference can be applied to analyzing the relationship between standard and vernacular languages in bilingual education; surely we are also seeking a better way to handle bilingual education based on experience. How rationally based our efforts are, is another question. Works on this and similar topics can at times become the scene for very emotional-and very moving-presentations which sometimes are more utopian than rational. One can perhaps call this a very 'rational' text, because so few of the contributors are members of ethnic subordinate groups. Am I suggesting that minority group members are less rational? Of course not. I am suggesting that it is much easier to be calm, objective and scholarly about the lot of others than about your own. The most salient feature about the bilingual education of vernacular speaking groups is the social and economic exploitation of its members by the dominant group. The papers herein, treating bilingual education from a psychological perspective, agree at least on the issue that an understanding of the social and economic factors underlying bilingual education is crucial for understanding the psychological studies on bilingualism.

The Dictionary of Louisiana French (DLF) provides the richest inventory of French vocabulary in Louisiana and reflects precisely the speech of the period from 1930 to the present. This dictionary describes the current usage of French-speaking peoples in the five broad regions of South Louisiana: the coastal marshes, the banks of the Mississippi River, the central area, the north, and the western prairie. Data were collected during interviews from at least five persons in each of twenty-four areas in these regions. In addition to the data collected from fieldwork, the dictionary contains material compiled from existing lexical inventories, from texts published after 1930, and from archival recordings.The new authoritative resource, the DLF not only contains the largest number of words and expressions but also provides the most complete information available for each entry. Entries include the word in the conventional French spelling, the pronunciation (including attested variants), the part of speech classification, the English equivalent, and the word's use in common phrases. The DLF features a wealth of illustrative examples derived from fieldwork and textual sources and identification of the parish where the entry was collected or the source from which it was compiled. An English-to-Louisiana French index enables readers to find out how particular notions would be expressed in la Louisiane.