Découverte et Communication is a useful tool for French as a second language instructors. Geared toward university- and college-level students, Découverte et Communication combines instruction, illustrations, web links and workbook exercises to offer a multimedia approach for intermediate students. Découverte et Communication uses idioms, with emphasis on both French and French Canadian expressions, and encourages users to speak French in a variety of settings. Illustrator Bryce Arndt uses humour to bring a sense of fun to the book that is often lacking in other texts.

Catherine Black is Associate Professor and Chair of the Creative Writing BFA program at OCAD University. Catherine’s first collection of prose poetry Lessons of Chaos and Disaster was the second book in Guernica Edition’s “First Poets Series,” and her lyric nonfiction novella A Hard Gold Thread (Guernica, 2011) was nominated for the ReLit award. Her third book, Bewilderness, was nominated for the Pat Lowther Memorial Award. Broadly speaking, Catherine’s areas of interest and expertise in creative writing include experimentations in prose poetry and other hybrid forms such as the lyric essay and longer experimental fiction. Thematically, her work interrogates the reliability of memory, the intersections of imagination and reality, as well as issues of motherhood, ‘madness,’ and the dissociative aspects of grief and trauma. Catherine has recently begun to explore ways in which her writing might span media, through guerrilla poetry projects and the creation of literary objects.

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Louise Chaput enseigne au département des Études Françaises de l’Université de Waterloo ainsi que dans le département des Langues et Littératures de l’Université Wilfrid Laurier. Elle a aussi enseigné à l’université York à Toronto. Cet ouvrage est le fruit de nombreuses années d’expérience dans l’enseignement du français langue seconde. Louise Chaput is a Professor of French Studies at the University of Waterloo. She has taught at York University in Toronto. This manual is the result of several years experience with hands-on instruction in both academic and FSL environments.

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