Bill VanPatten

Wynne Wong

Stacey Weber-Feve

Edouard Ousselin

LIAISONS begins when Claire Gagner, a psychology student at McGill University, receives a mysterious note and prepaid travel arrangements to Quebec City. Claire embarks on the journey of a lifetime that eventually leads her to France--and to startling revelations about her origins. Through this captivating film, students are able to build and expand their French comprehension skills while experiencing the suspenseful odyssey through Claire's eyes. Each video segment leaves students asking "What happens next?"

An Introduction to French

Liaisons

Daphnee Simard

This module on focusing on form in language instruction provides novice and experienced instructors with pedagogical techniques to help second language learners acquire formal elements of an L2. Taking the position that the development of a linguistic representation requires input, the pedagogical interventions presented in this module – textual enhancement, structured input, and dictogloss – all work with meaning-bearing input in some way. These techniques aim to increase the likelihood that learners focus on aspects of language useful or necessary for building mental representation. The module also discusses how explicit information may play a supporting role in helping learners process input.

Focusing on Form in Language Instruction

Gregory D. Keating

Michael J. Leeser

This volume consists of a well-integrated collection of original research articles and theoretical/overview papers on second language (L2) input processing. The primary contributors are former students of Bill VanPatten from the past three decades, and the collection of articles is intended as a tribute to his career and contribution of bringing processing issues to the center stage of research in second language acquisition (SLA) and instructed SLA. The research and theorizing presented in this volume are the most recent in the field and represent innovations in approaches to L2 processing research, including the use of online methodologies (self-paced reading and eye tracking) in the experimental papers. In addition, the editors are recognized authors and researchers who have published on sentence processing, input processing, and processing instruction, and all three editors are either on editorial boards or are associate editors of major L2 journals.

Studies in honor of Bill VanPatten

Research on Second Language Processing and Processing Instruction

Stacey Weber-Fève

Anne Lair

ENCORE is an intermediate-level proficiency- and communicative-oriented program. Paired with an engaging mystery and suspense film of the same name, ENCORE is guided by principles of communicative language teaching and research in second language acquisition. Topics and activities are designed to engage students in higher-level thinking while at the same time providing focused work on aspects of language that instructors in a second-year college-level French course expect to find. Important Notice: Media content referenced within the product description or the product text may not be available in the ebook version.

Encore Intermediate French, Student Text: Niveau intermediaire

LIAISONS is an innovative beginning-level French program firmly grounded in principles of communicative language teaching and research in second language acquisition. Components of the program are carefully linked together, showing students how they can make connections with their classmates, their instructor, their community, and the French-speaking world. A rich array of communicative activities is designed to stimulate interaction inside and outside the classroom. The underlying pedagogical framework in LIAISONS asks students to first discover new vocabulary and grammar through different mediums, then connect form and meaning through a set of confidence-building activities, and finally, actively create language. Important Notice: Media content referenced within the product description or the product text may not be available in the ebook version.

Wynne Wong

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