Choosing Texts: A Checklist for Teachers of French, Vol. I, No. 1.

This guide cites more than 1,000 textbooks for use in French programs at all levels of instruction. Entries are coded by the author's or editor's surname and include brief annotations, bibliographic data, availability, and price. The category index includes: (1) introductory, intermediate, and advanced texts, (2) composition and conversation texts, (3) readers, (4) anthologies and literary selections, (5) biographies, (6) civilization and culture, (7) essays, (8) explication de texte, (9) novels, (10) phonetics, (11) plays, (12) poetry, (13) reading skills, (14) reference works, (15) short stories, (16) supplementary works, (17) surveys of literature, and (18) books written in English or in English translation. An author and title index, list of addresses of publishers, and other useful addresses are included. (RL)