Course overview
This course will further develop students' proficiency in spoken and written French at an advanced level and extend their knowledge of French culture and society and enhance their intercultural understanding. Students will develop an extensive range of vocabulary, structures and text related to more specialised themes. Students will have extended linguistic accuracy, complexity, flexibility and fluency; strategies for effective spoken and written communication; intercultural knowledge integral to the range of situations and tasks in the set texts; a range of spoken and written texts including articles from the press and other media as well as contemporary Francophone literature. Students will negotiate and undertake a project that will interact with Francophone culture in a context outside the classroom.
Course learning outcomes
- develop advanced capability to use French in a range of contexts and text-types
- use advanced structures and idioms of French in the production of speech and writing with greater accuracy and fluency
- apply a sound knowledge of grammatical and sociolinguistic concepts relating to the topics and uses of French covered
- develop linguistic and cultural sensitivity in formal and informal interactions in French
- critically reflect on the interaction between one's own culture and French culture and how the former has shaped the concepts, identity and language in Francophone contexts.