69452 - French Language and Culture III (First Language)

Academic Year 2019/2020

  • Docente: Michela Tonti
  • Credits: 5
  • SSD: L-LIN/04
  • Language: French
  • Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
  • Campus: Forli
  • Corso: First cycle degree programme (L) in Intercultural and Linguistic Mediation (cod. 8059)

Learning outcomes

The student is able to understand and produce a wide range of complex written and spoken texts in French, in a fluent and idiomatic way.

Course contents

In order to successfully achieve the goals of this course students must already have a strong command of French phonetics, morphology and syntax at an advanced level. Written, oral and media-based communication will be equally dealt with. Students shall analyze and process written, oral and audio-visual texts concerning various themes of everyday life and main topics of institutional and professional domains. From the linguistic point of view, the course will aim to deepen the complex sentence: juxtaposition, coordination, subordination as well as those aspects of particular morpho-syntactic complexity. Language training will focus on particular aspects of syntactic, semantic and stylistic complexity French with contrastive issues.

Readings/Bibliography

Grammars and hanbooks for individual and classroom use:

· Bidaud, Françoise (2012), Grammaire du français pour italophones, Novara, UTET Università.

. Bidaud, Françoise (2014), Traduire le français d’aujourd’hui, Novara, UTET Università.

· Grevisse, Maurice et Goosse André (1993), Nouvelle grammaire française, Paris-Louvain-La-Neuve, Éditions Duculot.

· Merger, Marie-France et Sini, Lorella (2013), Le nouveau côte à côte, Padova, Amon.

Papers and on line dictionaries:

· Le Petit Robert

· Dictionnaire des combinaisons de mots (collection «Les Usuels»)

· Dictionnaire des synonymes du CRISCO (Université de Caen) (en ligne).

Teaching methods

In this course students shall establish an adequate working methodology by treating a number of selected documents in class work and weekly assignments. They shall carry out linguistic analyses of audiovisual materials assigned to individuals or small groups. From the point of view of the types of written production, the course will focus on the methodology of the note de synthèse. Performance will be assessed in progress and at the end of the module. This course will be supported by separate language training sessions (lettorato), aimed at supporting and consolidating writing and speaking skills. Students shall attend at least 70% of course lessons and training sessions.

Students are expected to achieve C1+ competence level.

Assessment methods

· Assessment in Progress: weekly homework and intermediate tests.

· Final Assessment: Textual analysis (note de synthèse) of a written dossier on not-professional topics. Time allowed: 3 hours. Further: tasks concerning speaking ability (summarizing of speech, presentation and discussion of one of the books of your choice: Barthes, Roland (1957), Mythologies, Paris, Éditions du Seuil ; Garcin, Jérôme (éd.) (2007), Nouvelles Mythologies, Paris, Éditions du Seuil (with Barthes' book) or Finkielkraut, Alain (2013), L’identité malheureuse, Paris, Stock. .

Tests shall assess specific linguistic and communicative skills at C1+ level.

The total mark for the examination in Lingua e Mediazione III (prima lingua) is the average between the mark for this module and the one for Interpretazione di Trattativa II (prima lingua).

Teaching tools

Video projector, notebook with Internet connection, web-sites of French newspapers and magazines, terminology data bases, corpora, video streaming of TV broadcastings, online dictionaries. Additional software and tools shall be indicated. Written, oral and audiovisual documents to be delivered and produced within the Moodle platform. Students are expected to register.

Office hours

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