A la rencontre de Philippe
interactive videodisc/Macintosh software program by the Athena Language Learning Project at M.I.T. designed to develop comprehension of spoken French; for full description, see listing in Videodiscs section of this catalogue.

Contacts, 6th edition
computerized study modules for the Macintosh; ancillary material for the text Contacts, 6th edition by Valette and Valette; modules divided into two groupings: 1)Flash — vocabulary practice exercises; 2)Foundations — exercises for review of grammatical structures and contextualized reading.

Salamandre: Châteaux de la Loire
full feature format (CAV) color videodisc (© 1988 Voyager Company) and corresponding Hypercard laserstack; information about 18 châteaux in the Loire Valley of France; for full description, see listing in Videodiscs section of this catalogue.

Système-D 3.0
writing assistant for French by Heinle & Heinle (© 1999) designed for use by elementary/ intermediate-level language learners; this word-processor and French spell-checker includes an online bi-lingual (French-English/English-French) dictionary with pronunciation feature, a phrase book of idiomatic expressions, vocabulary lists, a reference grammar with verb conjugator, writing examples.

Tense Tutor
a Macintosh program with sound designed to drill 10 verb tenses; includes 200 sentences recorded by a native speaker; features extensive notes for each sentence, reference material on verb usage, and "hide sentence" possibility to provide listening comprehension practice.

Transparent Language: French
a Macintosh software program designed to help students read and understand authentic French literature; works "notated" in "transparent language" = Daudet's La dernière classe, La partie de billard, L'enfant espion and Maupassant's La parure and Un million; includes audiocassette recording of each short story; "transparent language" version of original text features hideable Help windows that provide text-related information when user highlights a segment of text; windows available: (1)Word Meaning provides literal meaning of each word of original text; (2)Phrase Meaning gives the meaning of a phrase as a whole (i.e. idiomatic sense); (3)Sentence or Clause Meaning offers the meaning of a highlighted segment of the original text; (4)Comments holds grammatical information, such as infinitives of verbs and other types of "root words"; (5)Notes is used for longer explanations of grammar; program also includes Bookmark, Word Search, Root Search features; also available = Transparent Language sampler version of Jules Renard's Poil de Carotte with audiocassette recording on Language Sampler cassette.