24 Terrace Review — Wednesday, August 31, 1986

“New NWCC French course |

offers total immersion

“] dislike using the word ‘revolutionary’, but that’s a pretty close description of this program.’’

This is how Jo Patterson, French instructor for Northwest Community College, feels about’ the new ‘‘French in Action” course the college is offering. She says the program is a ‘‘total

immersion’’ in both the French language and culture through

‘videotapes, audio cassettes and ‘textbooks.

Patterson notes that people taking standard classroom im- mersion courses in French still experience a shock from the cultural and linguistic dif- ferences when they travel to

CBC tries out revised olan for Prince Rupert

A compromise of sorts has been developed by the CBC to maintain a broadcast service out of Prince Rupert’s CFPR sta- tion. The new plan, announced last Friday, is their effort to comply with the CRTC ruling while allowing CBC to operate within its B.C. budget alloca- tion.

Robert Sunter, director of radio at CBC Vancouver told theTerrace Review last week that the Prince Rupert afternoon show was going off the air, to be replaced with a program pro- duced in Vancouver.

Furthermore, they are looking for a buyer for the present CFPR building so they can move into smaller premises. The 14 CBC staff, including two tech- nical and two administrative personnel, will be reduced to a minimum of four, who will con- tinue to produce the early morn- ing show and focal news items.

The Canadian Radio and Telecommunications Commis- sion recently disallowed CFPR's plan to reduce Prince Rupert staff to two and close down asa broadcast station. CBC spokes- person Eric Moncur had re- sponded to the CRTC ruling by saying that the federal govern- ment has told them they must Operate within their budget, while the CRTC says they must contine to operate the expensive facility in Prince Rupert.

Skeena MP Jim Fulton re- sponded to the announcment in parliament Monday by saying the CBC had been untruthful in its presentation to the CRTC. Fulton says the CBC claimed that operating the Prince Rupert station was a case of ‘‘all or nothing’’, that is, that the sta- tion either had to continue with its large staff and building or be closed down completely. That the CBC is managing to con- tinue broadcasting with a re- duced staff of four means the CBC should be called to task for their misleading statements to the CRTC, Fulton said.

Rhoda Witherley, of the

Northwest Citizens’ Committee _

to Keep CFPR expressed disap- pointment with the CBC for not taking advantage of the support for CFPR there was in the area, choosing instead a more adver- sarial role. However, she said, ‘We're pleased that they’re staying, that we'll have local programs originating from the Northwest.’? The committee will continue to monitor the imple- , mentation of the plan. For ex- ample, the boundaries of the | Northwest programmiug area: have not yet been defined, she said, If the area is too small,

they fear that will be reason enough to reduce services in the future. “‘CBC hasn’t given us much confidence that they’re committed to the region,’’ Witherley said.

Although the committee real- izes the CBC is short of money, rationalizing decisions to cen- tralize in the lower mainland on a per capita basis means service won’t be provided equally across the province. Witherley said the committee’s monitoring of CFPR will focus on ‘‘ensuring the resources are there for a program worth doing.”’

On Monday afternoon, an- other announcement detailed ex- pansion plans similar to those proposed prior to the CRTC rul- ing. In addition to morning shows from Prince Rupert and Vancouver, there will be such broadcasts originating from Prince George and Kelowna. There will also be reporters sta- tioned in Victoria, Kamloops and Nelson.

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in Action, which has been used in the U.S. for 10 years, is designed to immerse students in the French way of life as much as the language, so that visiting or working in a French-speaking area seems like a natural ex- perience.

The course uses a real-life set- ting in France as its teaching venue, and elements of it include idiomatic expressions, tongue- in-cheek humor and a variety of human interest scenarios. It will be available in a classroom set- ting, taught by Patterson, or through the college’s audio- teleconferencing system, with her colleague Marie-Louise Lacourse instructing.

Patterson says her class will take about 30 registrants, and the distance education course will limit the number of Terrace students to five. It’s an introduc- tory course for people who speak no French or for those who tried it once and would like to start over.

Lacourse says it’s ideal for students “‘who are serious about learning French’’.

The classroom course starts Sept. 7 and takes place at the college Monday and Wednesday evenings from 7 to 9 p.m. The teleconferencing course begins Sept. 10 and will take place on Saturdays from 10 a.m, to noon.

For further information con- sult the NWCC fall brochure or call Jo Patterson or Marie- Louise Lacourse at 635-6511.

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