FRE - French

French Interactive Videodisc Project

Early work on A la rencontre de Philippe

Cross Cultural Web Course

Development of a cross-cultural French and English course involving students in the United States (at MIT and at one high school) and in France (at the Ecole Nationale SupÃ©rieure dâ€™Aerospace). Materials includes surveys, questionnaires, and the films â€œThree Men and a Baby,â€ and â€œTrois Hommes et Un Couffin.â€

French Reader for Intensive French

Development of a computer-based reader for a new double-credit French course.

Computer-Assisted Materials for French, Part I

A pilot project to develop a prototype of a present-tense verb generator that draws its verbs from the ARTFL database and that includes an answer-check and feedback feature.

Electronic French Course with Stanford University

Development of a collaborative experimental computer-based intermediate French course with task-based language learning using e-mail.

Phonetics Modules for French

Development of lessons on French phonetics for the elementary and intermediate courses.

Multimedia Workshop

A workshop conducted by Gilberte Furstenburg of MIT.

Videodisc Tool Kit, Phase I

Development of a Macintosh tool kit to allow subtitling on commercially available videodisc, QuickTime clips on CD-ROM, and time-coded video. Initial materials were prepared for Eric Rochant's "Un monde sans pitiÃ©."

French Videodisc

Development of the interactive videodisc Dialogues: Les FranÃ§ais parlent dâ€™eux-mÃªmes.

Informal Language Acquisition

Research project on informal language contact and its effect on foreign language proficiency. The project director is now at Carnegie Mellon University.