Liaisons: An Introduction to French (with Student Activities Manual and iLrn (TM) Heinle Learning Center, 4 terms (24 months) Pr

Bill VanPatten is Professor of Spanish and Director of Romance Language Instruction at Michigan State University, where he teaches graduate courses on second-language acquisition and second-language instruction. He has published widely in the areas of input processing, processing instruction, and second-language acquisition more generally. VanPatten has received both local and national awards for his teaching and research, and among practitioners is best known for MAKING COMMUNICATIVE LANGUAGE TEACHING HAPPEN (co-authored with James F. Lee) and for several top-selling Spanish language textbooks and video projects. Edward Ousselin is Professor of French at Western Washington University. His main research interests are in French film and cultural studies. He is currently serving as editor in chief of THE FRENCH REVIEW. Stacey Weber-Feve is Assistant Professor of French at Iowa State University. She is a specialist of French cinema with areas of expertise in contemporary French and Francophone literatures and cultural studies. Weber-Feve has published books and articles in the areas of French and North African women's filmmaking and life writing as well as on the teaching of French and Francophone cinemas, literatures, and cultures. An award-winning teacher, she explores how second-language research study, literacy-based approaches, and the use of technology can directly inform the design of instructional support materials in French. Wynne Wong is Associate Professor of French and Second Language Acquisition (SLA) and Director of French Basic Language Instruction at the Ohio State University. Her research interests are in SLA and Quebec cultural studies. She has published in the areas of input processing, input enhancement, and the role of attention in SLA, and she is known for her research in French on Processing Instruction and Structured Input. She is the former managing editor of THE FRENCH REVIEW and the co-recipient of the 2005 Stephen A. Freeman Award for the article "The Evidence is IN: Drills are OUT" (FOREIGN LANGUAGE ANNALS, 36, 2003).