Course overview
This course will further develop students' proficiency in spoken and written French at an advanced level in a wide range of contexts and extend their knowledge of French culture and society and enhance their intercultural understanding. Students will develop advanced linguistic accuracy, complexity, flexibility and fluency in their vocabulary, structures and texts. Students will further develop strategies for effective spoken and written communication, intercultural knowledge integral to the range of contexts 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 literature. Students will negotiate and undertake a project on French language and culture.
Course learning outcomes
- apply the skills needed to recognise and use the main structures and idioms of French in the production of speech and writing with a greater degree of accuracy and fluency
- analyse the grammatical and sociolinguistic concepts relating to relevant topics and uses of French covered
- display linguistic and cultural sensitivity in social interactions in French
- apply critical skills to a range of text types drawn from French narrative forms and the media
- critically reflect on the interculturality of aspects of French language and culture