FREN202-14S2 (C) Semester Two 2014

French language acquisition : Advanced B

15 points

Details:
Start Date: Monday, 14 July 2014
End Date: Sunday, 16 November 2014
Withdrawal Dates
Last Day to withdraw from this course:
  • Without financial penalty (full fee refund): Sunday, 27 July 2014
  • Without academic penalty (including no fee refund): Sunday, 12 October 2014

Description

This is the sixth course in a sequence of seven French language acquisition courses offered by the school. Students who have passed FREN201 or the equivalent can take this course.

This is the second course in a three-course sequence designed for students at the advanced-intermediate level. Through an introduction to French culture and civilisation, FREN202 promotes conversational skills and helps students develop the ability to write and comprehend somewhat complex texts (written or audio) on a broad range of topics. An extensive grammar review is included.

The course is taught in French. Topics included in 2012 are: the regional identity of Brittany, the environment, youth culture and social networks, and two films: Etre et avoir and Le Hérisson.

This course can be credited towards a Diploma in French Language.

Learning Outcomes

  • At the end of this course students will have developed:
  •  the ability to understand a wide range of sentence structures;
  •  a firm understanding of advanced level prose;
  •  an understanding of sociolinguistic registers;
  •  familiarity with journalistic prose, formal and informal use of language;
  •  the ability to compose prose using a variety of sentence structures, idiomatic expressions
       and link words;
  •  an enhanced intercultural understanding of French and francophone civilisation;
  •  have acquired skills associated with the level B2 of the Common European Frame of
      Reference for the French language.

Prerequisites

Course Coordinator

Sylvie Gagnon

Lecturer

Peter Low

Assessment

Assessment Due Date Percentage 
Homework assignments 24%
Grammar quizzes (online) 10%
Online Exercises 20%
Oral (online) 8%
Expose 8%
Course contribution 12%
Final test 18%

Textbooks / Resources

Required Texts

Gagnon, S; Course Handbook. French language acquisition: advanced B ; (This course handbook is available on Learn. It can be printed from Learn or students can obtain it from the lecturer).

Vercollier, A. et al; Difficultés expliquées du francais for English Speakers ; CLE International, 2004 (This textbook is also used in FREN201 and FREN301).

Course links

Library portal
The Course Outline is available for enrolled students on Learn.
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Indicative Fees

Domestic fee $670.00

International fee $2,850.00

* 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 FREN202 Occurrences

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