Portails: 1.0: Intermediate French

What sets this program apart?

The powerful learning progression in Portails allows students to move through the content in logical stages, ensuring that they remain connected to the curriculum. More importantly, it requires students to take a proactive approach in their learning by exploring and engaging in the target language.

Portails also incorporates Court métrage short films, Le Zapping, Flash Culture, and cultural readings as springboards for discussion and writing, while providing innovative digital tools to help students develop their proficiency. Student Portfolio is an integrated digital tool that allows students to curate a collection of work showcasing their language learning progress, growth, and achievements over time. These collections illustrate the student’s experience and the products of their learning, becoming meaningful through reflection, which facilitates students' understanding of their learning and what they can do with the language.

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The Portails advantage

Portails includes a variety of features that streamline faculty work and give students direction to independently explore, practice, and gain comfort learning and practicing French so that they are prepared for in-class conversation.

With the help of engaging digital tools like speech recognition and enhanced diagnostic tools, students are provided with immediate, actionable feedback at every step of the learning process.