Media Resources
French
On-line Language Lab
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For Students in French 101-104
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For French Instructors
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French Radio
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French Television
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French Journaux
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French Magazines
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French Film
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The FRIT Radio Show
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Tutoring and Translation Services
For French Instructors
This site provides a complete listing of all multimedia resources available in Hagerty Hall 200. In addition, it gives links to Web sites that offer lesson planning suggestions, song lyrics, etc.
This site can be used to help choose materials for your class. Search by type of multimedia, e.g. CD-Roms, video, etc.
Once you have found materials that interest you, you must reserve them on the sheet posted on the door of Jodi’s office in HH 200. Please see "How to check out Multimedia resources.” You should verify that no one else has the materials reserved for the same time period. You can then pick up your material from Jodi in her office on the day and time of the reservation by signing the Multi-Media Sign-out Sheet.
The material should be returned promptly to Jodi and signed as returned on the Sign-Out Sheet.*
Please show the material to Jodi when signing-out or checking-in.
* Please Note: Jodi is not available to sign-out or check-in materials from 1:00-2:00 pm weekdays.
For 101-103, songs, videos, realia, maps, film clips, CD-Roms, transparencies and simple Web-assignments could be used.
For 104 sections, full-length films (especially in 104.02, .03 and .04) and CD-Roms could be used in addition to the above materials.
When working with authentic materials, remember that they were not produced with our students in mind. Such items could contain unfamiliar references that you may need to explain. Also, authentic materials obviously reflect aspects of the cultures that produce them; and not all aspects of these cultures are unproblematic. What may seem comic or innocuous to some, could risk offending others. Hopefully, we can strike a balance between the sensibilities of different cultures and ideas. At the very least we could have class discussions, mostly at the 103 and 104 levels, about how our materials reflect such differences.
Many of the materials in HH 200 could also be used in upper-level courses, especially the films and CD-Roms.
