Open Educational Resources: French 101

Review materials

• French 101 Elementary French 1 has one required textbook, Espaces: Rendez-vous avec le monde francophone 4th edition with one online software Supersite + WebSAM + V-Text, and one pocket dictionary: Pocket Oxford – Hachette French Dictionary..
• Use Open Textbook Library as a starting point to find comparable material.
• Search by subject (languages) and keyword (french).
• Chapeau! First-Year French and Au Boulot! First-Year French are a match!

  • Au Boulot! includes a textbook, workbook, 21 accompanying audio exercises, and a grammar pocket book.

• As stated in the syllabus, www.wordreference.com can be used for free as a pocket dictionary.

• While searching on the OER Commons website, you can find Tex's French Grammar.

  • This is an Activity/Lab that includes self-correcting exercises and online audio with surreal dialogues and cartoon images.

  • Can be shared!

Modify

• Both of these sources have Attribution-NonCommercial CC BY-NC licenses which means that they can be remixed, adapted, and built upon with the condition that you acknowledge the original work and be non-commercial.

Attribute

• Chapeau! First-Year French © 1989 David Dinneen and Madeleine Kernan is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non-commercial 4.0 International License (CC-BY-NC 4.0). Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/1808/15558

• Au Boulot! First-Year French © 1995 Dinneen, Christiansen, Kernen, & Pensec is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non-commercial 4.0 International License (CC-BY-NC 4.0). Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/1808/15572 

Delivery/Redistribute

• Use these texts in your course instead of the current required text.
• The textbook chapters, workbooks, and grammar pocket book can be downloaded to a PDF format.
• The audio exercises can be downloaded to an mp3 format.
• This saves each student approximately $306.