Objective: to add a new communicative competencies to a course curriculum that previously only required an reading and writing component.
Sample one : students were asked to professionally subtitle segments of a French film (listening)
Sample two: students were asked to interview a French students on their opinion of the American elections and then subtitle the segment for the local American TV station. Quite serendipitously, one of the American students was in turn asked to be interviewed by his French counterpart, who was a communications major; the interview was run on Radio France and published on their website. (listening, interpersonal modes of communication)