Promenades, 5th Edition

à travers le monde francophone

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.

Available July 2025

What sets Promenades, 5th Edition apart?

In the fifth edition of Promenades, presentations and activities have been revised to further incorporate a broader range of francophone cultures and promote intercultural communicative competence. New Projets create deeper learning experiences, while updated diagnostic pre-assessments and assignable Integrated Performance Assessments (IPAs) offer a more student-centered approach to testing.
With an updated contemporary design, Group Chats, and Student Video Recordings accompanied by rubrics, Promenades provides tools that make both teaching and learning easier, more meaningful, and more manageable.

NEW to this edition:
  • 2024 Silver Telly Award-Winning Roman-Photo video series breathes new life into this edition

  • Projet strand in each lesson offering collaborative, theme-based tasks

  • Integrated Performance Assessments (IPAs) with rubrics, assignable as class activities or stand-alone assignments

  • Web-only audio-sync feature providing students with opportunities for inductive learning

  • New vText 2.0 with enhanced navigation, integrated media, and split-screen view

  • Student Video Recording activities for presentational speaking, and Group chats for interpersonal activities with rubric grading


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Digital at your fingertips

Experience the Promenades Supersite, an unparalleled digital learning environment with integrated content, resources, and tools built exclusively to support language learning.

  • Everything you need to plan, teach, and assess

  • Program-specific, theme-based practice activities with auto-grading and immediate feedback

  • Plenty of authentic and cultural media

  • Robust assessment program with ability to customize or create your own

  • News and Cultural Updates to keep students informed about current events in the French-speaking world

Product details

  • Authors
    James G. Mitchell, Cheryl Tano
  • Lessons
    13
  • Published
    ©2026

For students

  • Student Edition available in print and digital (online vText) formats
  • Supersite with a wide variety of interactive activities
  • WebSAM —the online Student Activities Manual

For instructors

  • Instructor's Annotated Edition (IAE) in print and digital (online vText) formats
  • Instructor Supersite with all-in-one gradebook, testing program, additional instructor resources, and activity pack for additional communication activities
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