French B2.1

Code:

LLC041

Acronym:

FB2.1

Instance: 2011/2012 - 1S

Active?	Yes
Responsible unit:	Department of Portuguese and Romance Studies
Course/CS Responsible:	Bachelor in Languages, Literatures and Cultures

Cycles of Study/Courses

Acronym	No. of Students	Study Plan	Curricular Years	Credits UCN	Credits ECTS	Contact hours	Total Time
CL	0	Study Plan-Lang.Sciences:Linguistics	2	-	6	52	162
LA	10	Study Plan - Applied Languages: Business Relations	2	-	6	52	162
			3
		Study Plan-Applied Languages: Translation	2	-	6	52	162
			3
LLC	11	Joint Language Plan-German/French	2	-	6	52	162
			3
		Joint Language Plan-French/Spanish	2	-	6	52	162
			3
		Single Language Plan-French	2	-	6	52	162
			3
		Portuguese and Foreign Lauguage (French)	2	-	6	52	162
			3
		English Studies Plan (Teaching) With French	2	-	6	52	162
			3
		Joint Language Plan -English/French	2	-	6	52	162
			3
LRI	13	Study Plan	2	-	6	52	162
			3
		Study Plan - Minor in History	2	-	6	52	162
			3
		Study Plan - Minor in German Studies	2	-	6	52	162
			3
		Study Plan - Minor in English Studies	2	-	6	52	162
			3
		Study Plan - Minor in Spanish Studies	2	-	6	52	162
			3
		Study Plan - Minor in French Studies	2	-	6	52	162
			3

Teaching language

Francês

Objectives

a) Develop the acquisition of knowledge and know-how:
- Promote the reading and decoding of texts, visual and sound recordings based on real communication processes.
- Propose an action-based methodological approach, i.e., students are primarily seen as “social actors having to perform tasks in a given circumstance and environment” (CECR)
- Allow different strategies to develop naturally in the learning process, in coordination with the linguistic, socio-cultural, intercultural and discursive components.

b) Encourage personal initiative, self-assessment and autonomy:
- Provide various types of documents in order to add to the student’s balanced skills of critical reception, interaction, production and mediation, while drawing on creativity and improvisation.
- Diversify assessment methods in order to make learners aware of their learning process and promote the building of effective strategies.

c) Improve knowledge and the acquisition of communicative and linguistic contents (vocabulary, grammar, pronounciation, and spelling) to achieve an intermediate level.
- Consolidate prior learning and conceptualise new elements.
- Analyse, in greater depth, the discovery and acquisition of interactive strategies suitable for communication.
- Prioritise tasks that encourage learners to observe and explain the functioning of structures using various tools (grammar books, dictionaries…) and/or compare with their mother-tongue

Program

1. Functional aspects: meet and talk to the group members, evaluate their comprehension and expression skills, define their learning expectations and objectives, how they express subtle, positive and negative opinions, speak of the tastes and preferences, involve the speaker in the speech, make comments for and against, react favourably or unfavourably to an idea, a fact, an event, present a discussion and pick up/interrupt a conversation, insist on or oppose an argument.
2. Linguistic aspects: consolidation of prior learning (pronouns, revise verb tenses, the negative form, questions…), past tenses, indefinite quantities, compound relative pronouns, the expressing time, alternating between indicative/subjunctive moods. Increase vocabulary (synonyms, antonyms, idiomatic expressions, language registers…). Regular work on the prosody of sentences and the acquisition of the phonological system, accents, tones of voice ….
3. Socio-linguistic, socio-cultural and pragmatic aspects: cultural and linguistic diversity in Francophone countries, living environments and societal phenomena, current events. Study of language behaviour, signs of affection, language registers, behavioural and relationship differences.




Activities
-Interactions : spontaneous conversation and discussions on the topics discussed in class, prepared or improvised role play, games and various leisure activities, reading aloud, participation in discussions, prepare a rather complex project covering realistic tasks
-Monologues : spontaneous or prepared, to describe, narrate, explain, narrate events, offering points of view, describe…
- Listen/view oral/recorded documents aiming at global, selective and detailed comprehension.
- Identify, in group or on their own, facts and socio-cultural indicators.
- Produce, more or less freely, a variety of texts.
-Analyse and explain work programme-related extracts.
- Exercises: retaining, re-using and processing linguistic aspects.
- Prepare, during the semester, a learning record for the purpose of self-assessment.

Teaching methods and learning activities

Practical classes and tutorials. Varied strategies. Group work, in pairs and individual work. The participation and autonomy of students are two of the components that will be assessed.

Evaluation Type

Distributed evaluation without final exam

Assessment Components

Description	Type	Time (hours)	Weight (%)	End date
Attendance (estimated)	Participação presencial	56,00
	Trabalho escrito	37,00		2012-02-11
	Exame	4,00		2012-02-11
	Exame	4,00		2012-02-11
	Exame	4,00		2012-02-11
	Total:	-	0,00

Amount of time allocated to each course unit

Description	Type	Time (hours)	End date
	Estudo autónomo	57	2012-02-11
	Total:	57,00