Decouverte Et Creation

by Gérard Jian and Ralph Hester

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0395369126
• ISBN13: 9780395369128
• Release Date: March 1990
• Publisher: Cengage Learning
• Length: 592 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 8.2" x 9.4"

Customer Reviews

Good review tool

The format of this text developes the students capacty to think as a native frenchperson would and as he deciphers the various materials presented he gains deeper insight because the text is entirely in french and forces the student to swim or sink.

Decouverte et Creation - is what we stanford grads cut our teeth on.

I was frankly surprised to see the anger with which a couple reviewers attacked this book. It's a great book - much better than many that are published today - which are overladen with ancilary materials. I'm currently writing a textbook, and refer to this one often. Note to self: there is no perfect textbook. The direct method (aka immersion) works well if you've been trained in it. I've worked with Hester, Barson, and other greats in the language training field. Feel free to visit my site for other tips on language learning. Marc franceinfo.us

Greatest elementary French method going

I have been teaching French for 17 years and I have never found a first-year method that even begins to equal M. Jian's. It strikes the perfect balance between simplifying complicated grammatical principles and encouraging students to resist passivity in their language acquisition efforts. I find the readings, cultural materials, and supplementary lab exercises exemplary. For any mature student who is interested in learning French language rapidly and correctly, I enthusiastically recommend this method. A must for first-year college and university French courses.