FREN301-13S1 (C) Semester One 2013

French Language Acquisition: Advanced C

30 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 the seventh course in a sequence of seven French language acquisition courses offered by the programme.

This course is an advanced introduction to different aspects of French civilisation to further students' understanding of French language through the study of civilisation, and includes advanced grammar, advanced reading, discussions and listening comprehension. This course follows FREN 202, or the equivalent.
The aims are to improve students' competence and accuracy in reading, writing, speaking and comprehension of French language and understanding of civilisation at advanced level C; to immerse students in authentic French at an advanced level; to improve students' passive and active accurate knowledge of vocabulary, and understanding, by using the French language; to improve students' grammar through the writing of ssays, conversations and ateliers.

Learning Outcomes

  • At the end of this course students will have developed:
  • a working knowledge of everyday words, plus some specialised vocabulary;
  • knowledge geared to grammatically analysing, stylistically assessing authentic modern French texts;
  • ability to interact smoothly and intelligently within French society
  • advanced ability to analyse French grammar;
  • ability to communicate confidently and accurately;
  • proficiency in everyday conversations and comprehension of more advanced level discussions;
  • ability to read and comprehend non-specialised French texts quickly and accurately;
  • ability to read and comprehend some more advanced narrative, polemical and academic style French texts;
  • ability to comprehend complex French texts with the help of a dictionary and similar resources;
  • high linguistic versatility derived from a variety of challenges in the four domains of language acquisition;
  • preparedness to pursue higher level of attainment in French studies or other areas of the humanities and social sciences.

Prerequisites

Course Coordinator

Sylvie Gagnon

Assessment

Assessment Due Date Percentage  Description
Homework assignments 24% Best 3 of 5 (8% each)
Grammar Quizzes (online) (9) 10%
Online Exercises (15) 15%
Oral online (face to face) (1) 9%
Course contribution 10%
Controle final (reading) 10%
Controle final (writing/list) 12%
Expose 10%

Textbooks / Resources

Required Texts

Gagnon, S; Course Handbook. French language acquisition advanced B ;

Vercollier, A. et al; Difficulties expliquees du francais for English Speakers ; CLE International, 2004.

Course links

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

Indicative Fees

Domestic fee $1,288.00

International fee $5,600.00

* 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 FREN301 Occurrences

  • FREN301-13S1 (C) Semester One 2013