116-461 French Part 4: Advanced Spoken and Written Language

Credit Points

Coordinator

Prerequisites

116-315 or equivalent.

Semester

Contact

Subject Description

Various activities and exercises are intended to foster linguistic competence in the following areas: oral-aural communication skills required in normal and professional life, in particular for oral presentations (exposés, interviews, debates, etc.) by learning appropriate strategies and operating at various levels of formality; pronunciation, in particular acquisition of native-like patterns of delivery; ability to write and translate (French-English; English-French) texts of various length, in different registers (in particular French academic writing); mastery of a wide range of vocabulary (general and speaking) related to the themes and genres studied in class; ability to analyse, discuss and use complex grammatical and discourse structures at sentence and text level. The objectives of the subject and teaching methodology are defined in the student's guide to En Fin de compte, pp. XVII-XXV. Read this introduction carefully.

Assessment

Two 90-minute end of semester tests (40%); written and oral practical exercises (35%); one 30-minute oral test (25%).

Prescribed Texts

A collection of texts and exercises will be provided by the Department.