BUSINESS FRENCH BIBLIOGRAPHY

 

RECENT PUBLICATIONS IN THE FIELD

OF BUSINESS FRENCH

 

TEXTBOOKS AND CLASSROOM AIDS

 

Cherifi, Soade; Bruno Girardeau; Marion Mistichelli.  Travailler en français en entreprise 2.  Paris: Didier, 2009.  Textbook, CD-ROM, guide pédagogique.  Intermediate level.  Continuation of Gillmann book listed below.  Focus on communication skills for a professional environment.  Publisher’s website: www.didierfle.com.  ISBN: 978-2-278-06261-4.

 

Cloose, Éliane.  Le français du monde du travail.  Grenoble: Presses universitaires de Grenoble, 2009.  Intended for preparation for new CCIP exams.  Ten chapters on major aspects of business world.  Advanced level.  Publisher’s website: www.pug.fr.  ISBN: 2-7061-1185-2. 

 

Gillmann, Bernard.  Travailler en français en entreprise.  Paris: Didier, 2007.  Textbook, CD-ROM, guide pédagogique.  Elementary level.  Focus on basic communication skills for a professional environment.  Publisher’s website: www.didierfle.com.  ISBN: 978-2278-061037.

 

Penfornis, Jean-Luc.  Français.com: débutant.  Paris: Clé International, 2007.  Livre de l’élève, 2 CD audio collectifs, cahier d’exercices, guide pédagogique.  Elementary level [débutant/faux débutant].  Addresses basic conversational and situational needs for working in a professional context.  Publisher’s website: www.cle-inter.com.  ISBN: 978-2-09-035424-9.

 

SCHOLARLY WORKS

 

Ainsworth, Judith.  “Video Excerpts, Classroom Games, and an Online Double Auction Experiment: Integrating ‘Supply and Demand’ in the Business Language Classroom.”  Global Business Languages 13 (2008).

 

Carras, Catherine; Jacqueline Tolas; Patricia Kohler; Elisabeth Szilagyi.  Le Français sur Objectifs Spécifiques et la Classe de Langue.  Paris: CLE International, 2007.

 

Martin, Elizabeth.  Marketing Identities Through Language: English and Global Imagery in French Advertising.  Basingstoke; New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006.

 

Rawson, Gay.  “Developing Cultural Competency in the Business Language Class.”  Global Business Languages 13 (2008).

 

Sullivan, Karen: “Laurent Cantet’s Ressources Humaines: Content and Class in Business French.”  The French Review 81.5 (2008): 896-911.

 

Thompson, William.  Teaching Business French: Textbooks, Reference Tools, and Pedagogical Aids.  CD-ROM.  American Association of Teachers of French (Commission on French for Business and Economic Purposes), 2005.

 

Thompson, William.  “Strategies for the Design of the Second-Semester Business French Class.”  Global Business Languages 12 (2007): 133-147.

Additions or corrections to the bibliography may be sent to:

 

Dr. Will Thompson, The University of Memphis  (e-mail)

The BUSINESS FRENCH BIBLIOGRAPHY page of the FFBAIT website is devoted to providing information about textbooks, scholarly articles, and pedagogical aids for the teaching of Business French.  For the time being, it complements the CD-ROM Teaching Business French: Textbooks, Reference Tools, and Pedagogical Aids by Will Thompson, published by the American Association of Teachers of French, and available at:

http://www.frenchteachers.org/hq/materials/material.htm.