Communiquons

Abstract

This book, Communiquons, is a clone of Le Pont, a OER book written for 3rd year courses. Communiquons’s goal was to simplify and change some of the texts and add some steps to make the grammar more accessible to fourth semester students. There was also a need for exercises in vocabulary and listening for these students which are sequenced throughout each chapter.

The curriculum requires students to analyze target structures within context and make their own observations about when and how those structures are used. This inductive method is enhanced by online computer-graded activities that provide immediate feedback for students to track their own comprehension.This online component allows students to practice skills as well as grammatical and vocabulary structures outside of class. Providing students with this preview of the target structures will allow learning through a flipped model, freeing up class time to work on more open-ended communicative activities that explore the Francophone world. The structured format also allows the instructor to support students in areas which they find difficult. After completing a range of oral activities during class, the learner will move on to exercises that move them from input/discrimination activities (which are missing in many curricula) to comprehension/processing activities and eventually to production exercises.

Communiquons is intended to reinforce structures that students have already started to acquire, while adding in further detail and new structures. It also promotes cultural understanding of the varied groups of people who share French as a common langage, and introduction to literary and cultural texts designed to show the grammar in focus in context.