French

Designed to invite meaningful connections with contemporary and diverse francophone cultures, Promenades takes a student-friendly approach to introductory French. This program aims to make learning easier, more enjoyable, and more successful for students while enhancing teaching effectiveness for instructors. It helps improve students' speaking, listening, reading, and writing skills, enabling them to express their ideas and engage with others in real-life situations.

Portails 2.0: Introductory French puts students first by providing valuable opportunities for them to practice and explore the target language. Our progression of content breaks lessons down into manageable portions and guides students through the active learning steps that are required to learn a new language. They’ll build a strong foundation for language development, both in and out of class.

Imaginez, 5e is designed to strengthen students’ French language skills and develop cultural competency. It features a fresh, magazine-like design with authentic short films and readings, and weaves thematic, cultural, and grammatical concepts throughout each of its lessons.

Vibrant and original, Espaces takes a fresh, student-friendly approach to introductory French, aimed at making students’ learning and instructors’ teaching easier, more enjoyable, and more successful. Espaces develops students’ speaking, listening, reading, and writing skills so that they will be able to express their own ideas and interact with others meaningfully and for real-life purposes.

Engage your students and enrich their understanding of the francophone world with Promenades. Local, regional, and global culture is highlighted throughout the program through readings, multiple video series, and scaffolded practice activities.

Introducing Perspectives, a new Intermediate French program that offers a unique focus on the cultural perspectives of the French-speaking world by embedding cultural products and practices into every aspect of instruction. Perspectives teaches students to communicate inside and outside the classroom with competence and understanding in the target culture.

Face-à-Face is an advanced French program with a focus on communication via discussion of authentic content. This program serves as the basis for meaningful communication via speaking and writing with abundant opportunities for process reading, viewing, and listening. It offers appealing content (films, readings, comic strips, writing assignments, and discussions) meant to pique students’ interest, capture their imagination, and provoke a genuine desire to speak.

Portails combines Vista Higher Learning’s proven intermediate French content, groundbreaking technology, and strong understanding of how today’s students learn. Whether you’re teaching a fully online, hybrid, or face-to-face French course, Portails is the right solution for effective and authentic language learning.