À Table!: The Gourmet Culture of France / Edition 1

by Becky Brown

Overview

À Table! is a unique content-based French-language textbook covering French culture through the highly motivational material of French cuisine. Organized like a French menu, each chapter includes prose essays, poetry, grammar points, a degustation exercise and a recipe for students who might want to try their hand at food preparation.

The book provides some structure for the instructor to use Peter Mayle's (A Year in Provence) Adventure dans la France Gourmande. Discussion questions for his book are included in the Appendix.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	2901585102975
Publisher:	Hackett Publishing Company, Inc.
Publication date:	03/15/2010
Edition description:	First Edition
Pages:	206
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 1.25(h) x 9.00(d)
Language:	French

About the Author

Becky Brown (PhD Texas) is Professor of Linguistics at Purdue University. Her research covers sociolinguistics, varieties of French, Romance linguistics and French pedagogy. She has taught linguistics courses and French courses for twenty years.

Editorial Reviews

"Á Table!: The Gourmet Culture of France provides a lively, intriguing, well-designed and pedagogically sound set of learning materials that bring taste back into the curriculum and put content-based learning on the table. After all, France is a country where Importance de éducation au goût has a central place in public education, so this approach is most fitting."
—Kathryn Murphy-Judy, Virginia Commonwealth University, The Modern Language Journal 95

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