22 French
Bibliothèque mobile de littérature québécoise
Laboratoire Ex situ
Public Domain
This collection makes available works from the Quebec literary corpus.
Formats: Online
Suggested for: FREN 374
CITOYEN.NE.S: Conversation en Français
Annabelle Dolidon (Portland State University)
2021
Licence: CC BY-NC
Intended for teaching French conversation at the intermediate level, this text focuses on the themes of inclusivity and citizenship.
Formats: PDF, Word
Suggested for: FREN 200/201
Français Interactif
Karen Kelton, Nancy Guilloteau, and Carl Blyth (University of Texas)
2019
Licence: CC BY
This open textbook accompanies course content that explores the French language and culture by following the lives of students participating in an intensive French language programming.
Formats: Online, PDF
Suggested for: FREN 100/101
Grammaire Ouverte
James Law (University of Texas)
Licence: CC BY
2022
This book is a pedagogical French grammar intended for advanced learners. It outlines essential concepts to French grammar, accompanied by literary excerpts and notes on dialectical variation.
Formats: Online, PDF
Suggested for: FREN 301
Histoires d’Avenirs: Science-fiction pour le cours de français niveaux intermédiaire et avancé
Annabelle Dolidon and Stéphanie Roulon (Portland State University)
2017
Licence: CC BY-NC
This text presents nine French science fiction short stories aimed at an audience of foreign learners with intermediate to advanced language skills.
Formats: Online, PDF
Suggested for: FREN 358
Introduction to French
Rita Palacios
2019
Licence: CC BY-NC-SA
Introduction to French is a basic French language textbook designed to develop reading, writing, and speaking skills of college students in classrooms across Canada.
Formats: Online, PDF, EPUB, and more
Suggested for: FREN 100/101
Let’s Read French Books
Somayeh Kamranian, Guy de Maupassant, Alphonse Daudet, and Jean Giono (University of British Columbia)
2020
Licence: CC BY-NC-SA
This reader contains samples of 19th-century French literature, including both simplified and original texts.
Formats: Online
Suggested for: FREN 421
Liberté
Gretchen Angelo
2012
Licence: CC BY-NC-SA
This is an introductory level French textbook that is focused on the communicative approach. Each chapter includes around communicative strategies, culture and grammar.
Formats: PDF
Suggested for: FREN 100/101
Le littéraire dans le quotidien
Joanna Gay Luks (Cornell University)
2013
Licence: CC BY
An open textbook offering a transdisciplinary approach to reading/writing at the first and second year levels of college French.
Formats: Google Docs
Suggested for: FREN 358
#OnYGo
Géraldine Blattner (Florida Atlantic University), Amanda Dalola (University of Minnesota), Stéphanie Roulon (Portland State University)
2024
Licence: CC BY-NC-SA
#OnYGo is an innovative first-year French language e-textbook, designed as Open Educational Resource (OER), for learning beginning French (equivalent to one year at an American university). It is inspired by a remix of task-based, multiliteracies and communicative approaches, which provides students with opportunities to engage with French language and culture in a variety of contexts and situations, across a range of modalities. Through a wide range of activities, students develop and practice their language skills, and reflect on their cross-cultural knowledge and positionality in their understanding of the vast francophone landscape. #OnYGo is a first-year textbook that takes a DEI-forward approach to the depiction of people, contexts, and concepts. It views language learners, instructors and a wide range of individuals interacting in French as belonging to a large multilingual and francophone community. It recognizes multilingualism and multiculturalism in all its forms, and showcases French speakers with a variety of backgrounds and relationships to the French language. The cultural and pedagogical materials in this collection have been selected for their authenticity and diverse representation of French speakers on the five continents, and are thus purposely inclusive of gender, sexual orientation, race, and ethnicity.
Formats: PDF
Suggested for: FREN 200/201
Résumer, synthétiser, argumenter
Sylvie Clamageran and Henriette Gezundhajt
2014
Licence: CC BY-NC-SA
Le manuel s’adresse aux étudiants de français langue seconde de niveau avancé.
Formats: Online, PDF
Suggested for: FREN 362/375
Sons & Lettres: A pronunciation method for intermediate-level French
Stephen Walton (Portland State University)
2018
Licence: CC BY-NC
This textbook provides a set of classroom materials to train students to hear and produce the sounds of French and to recognize the regular spellings used to represent those sounds in print.
Formats: Online, PDF
Suggested for: FREN 200/201
Tout un Monde: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Intermediate French
Alicia Soueid (University of Texas at Arlington)
2019
Licence: CC BY
Written by a faculty at University of Texas Arlington, this book is intended for use with intermediate level college French classes. Its multidisciplinary approach introduces students to topics and vocabulary associated with fields such as medicine, advertising, travel, business, agriculture, and relationships.
Formats: PDF
Suggested for: FREN 200/201
Translating for Canada, eh?
Lynne Bowker
2021
Licence: CC BY-NC-SA
This ebook briefly introduces the concepts of translation and localization and then presents a range of free online tools and resources, including term banks, bilingual concordancers, tools for comparing language varieties, machine translation tools, and language portals. In each case, the tools and resources that are presented have a distinctly Canadian flavour to help translators to localize texts into Canadian English and Canadian French.
Formats: Online