FREN321-17S1 (C) Semester One 2017

French Language Acquisition: Advanced A

30 points

Details:
Start Date: Monday, 20 February 2017
End Date: Sunday, 25 June 2017
Withdrawal Dates
Last Day to withdraw from this course:
  • Without financial penalty (full fee refund): Friday, 3 March 2017
  • Without academic penalty (including no fee refund): Friday, 19 May 2017

Description

This is the fifth course in a sequence of six French language acquisition courses.

This course is an 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.

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 B; 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 essays, conversations and "ateliers".

EXPECTATIONS
Students will increasingly use FRENCH in a friendly atmosphere aimed at recreating a French-speaking environment.

Note on attendance:  Languages are learned by doing, and the tutorial-style sessions in this course are designed to create an atmosphere in which students can try out their language skills on each other.  If you do not attend regularly and do not keep up with the work, you will therefore not only be hindering your own progress, but you will also be holding back the other students with whom you are working.

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;
  • developed critical thinking via close-readings, argumentative presentations, and classroom discussions
  • the ability to compose prose using a variety of sentence structures, idiomatic expressions and link words;
  • have acquired versatile skills associated with the level B2 of the Common European Frame of  Reference for the French language.
  • a heightened linguistic sensitivity facilitating the acquisition of other non-English languages

    In addition, they will have acquired
  • an enhanced intercultural understanding of French and francophone civilisation both within Europe and globally (through history and in relation to current events);
  • a more general sensitivity to cultural diversity in a global context, as well as the politics of language and biculturality (for example, in relation to minority languages and cultures in France, and in relation to Aotearoa).

Prerequisites

FREN222 or FREN124

Restrictions

FREN201, FREN202

Course Coordinator

For further information see Language, Social and Political Sciences Head of Department

Assessment

Assessment Due Date Percentage  Description
Homework assignments 21% Best 3 of 5, each worth 7%
Grammar quizzes online (9) 9%
Varied exercises online (13) 13%
Expose 12%
Final test (reading) 12%
Final test (writing/listening) 12%
Oral test (online/face to face) 11%
Course contribution 10%

Course links

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

Domestic fee $1,464.00

International fee $5,950.00

* 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 FREN321 Occurrences

  • FREN321-17S1 (C) Semester One 2017