FREN121-13S1 (C) Semester One 2013

French language acquisition: Beginners A

15 points

Details:
Start Date: Monday, 18 February 2013
End Date: Sunday, 23 June 2013
Withdrawal Dates
Last Day to withdraw from this course:
  • Without financial penalty (full fee refund): Sunday, 3 March 2013
  • Without academic penalty (including no fee refund): Sunday, 19 May 2013

Description

This is an introductory course for students who have no previous knowledge of French. It is the first course in a sequence of seven French language acquisition courses offered by the school.

FREN121 is for outright beginners or for people who have done only a minimal amount of French at school (Year 9 or 10). It is NOT for students who have done three or more years of French at school.

Learning Outcomes

  • As a student in this course you will acquire skills in all four areas of the French language: reading, writing, speaking and listening.
    FREN121 provides a preliminary course to enable you to:
  • read French at a beginner's level;
  • speak and understand French at a beginner's level;
  • develop a sympathetic and informed understanding of the ways of thought and forms of   expression of the French;
  • develop the personal skill of awareness of this foreign language;
  • acquire sufficient language skills in order to proceed to FREN122.

Restrictions

FREN104, FREN127

Course Coordinator

Peter Low

Lecturer

Eric Mouhica

Assessment

Assessment Due Date Percentage 
Online Exercises 20%
Online Quizzes (5) 15%
Mini Tests (4) 24%
Oral Test 5%
Final Tests (2) 36%

Textbooks / Resources

Recommended Reading

Oates, Michael. , Oukada, Larbi; Entre amis : an interactive approach ; 6th ed; Heinle Cengage Learning, 2013.

This textbook will also be used for FREN 122 in the second semester. Those students planning to take that course will not need to purchase a new book.

Course links

Library portal
LEARN The Course Outline is available for enrolled students on LEARN.

Indicative Fees

Domestic fee $644.00

International fee $2,800.00

* All fees are inclusive of NZ GST or any equivalent overseas tax, and do not include any programme level discount or additional course-related expenses.

For further information see Language, Social and Political Sciences .

All FREN121 Occurrences

  • FREN121-13S1 (C) Semester One 2013
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