Le Monde Francophone

Foreign Service Institute, 225 pages.Год издания не указан.Книга для чтения по особенностям языка и культуры франкоязычных стран за пределами Франции.Le Monde Francophone, like other publications ofthe School ofLanguage Studies. is the result ofa felt need. A significant proportion ofthe Foreign Service students enrolled in French are preparing for assignments in French speaking areas other than metropolitan France. Yet there are few texts available to give the student a wide ranging
sample of information about the French speaking areas of the world.Elisabeth de Maynadier, a Coordinator in the FSI French language staff, noted the need for materials of the kind incorporated in this book in 1976 and started to write brief articles on the countries to which her students ofthat time were slated to proceed. Drawing on the sources which she lists in the bibliography and encouraged by her supervisor
Monique Cossard, Mme de Maynadier expanded her articles to touch on the geography, civilization and personalities of 28 countries in the Francophone world. Le Monde Francophone is a reader intended for students who are ready for material at about the R-2 level ofdifficulty on the FSI reading proficiency scale.It is interesting to note that most ofthe former French colonies have chosen French as an official language. But the use ofthe French language may tend to mask cultural differences about which students should be aware. Le Monde Francophone provides introduction to some of the countries and cultures associated with the French language.