FRENCH LANGUAGE
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- Academic year
- 2020/2021
- Teacher
- VALERIA DE LUCA
- Credits
- 4
- Didactic period
- Primo Semestre
- SSD
- L-LIN/04
Training objectives
- To make students acquire a linguistic, communicative, and cultural competence in French close to level B1 of the Common European Framework of Reference. At the end of the course, the student will be able to understand the essential points of clear messages in standard language on familiar topics that he or she normally faces at home, at school, and in his or her free time; he or she can deal with many situations that may arise while traveling in a French-speaking region; he or she can produce simple and coherent texts on topics that are familiar or of interest to him or her; he or she can describe experiences, dreams, hopes, ambitions, briefly explain his or her reasons and give explanations on opinions and projects.
Prerequisites
- None
Course programme
- The contents of the lecturer's module concern the didactic units of the reference manual aimed at introducing the grammatical and cultural elements of the French language. The contents of the theoretical module provide a linguistic introduction to the above-mentioned elements (phonetics, morphology, vocabulary, syntax), with particular attention to phonetics, the international phonetic transcription system, and phonation organs. Also, a general introduction to French linguistics and the history of the language will be given; in particular, the fundamental concepts of F. de Saussure's linguistics will be introduced. Some of the workshops will focus on the familiarisation with specific textual genres of everyday life (correspondence, writing a CV, etc.). These activities concern in particular the modules of communication sciences, tourism, and economy.
Didactic methods
- The course of the teacher + mother tongue lecturers
Learning assessment procedures
- The final exam includes 2 written tests and one oral test:
1) A written test of grammatical verification, divided as follows: 1a) exercises of transformation, substitution, completion, 1b) exercises of phonetic transcription;
2) Elaborated written test of linguistic or linguistic-communicative comprehension/production/textual analysis (literary text, artwork, comics, advertising, moving image);
3) An oral test (can be taken only after passing the written tests): discussion of the written work, questions about the theoretical content of the course, oral presentation of a topic, or artwork of your choice (eg., a press review independently made, any topics relevant to your academic domain - archaeology, communication, economics -, artistic work or film, piece of music, a literary text). The chosen topics or artworks should be communicated to the teacher by e-mail before the oral interview.
The first written test is common to all and, the second one adapts according to the different academic programs, as well as the oral test. Reference texts
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