French C1.1

Code:

LLC043

Acronym:

FC1.1

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
LA	4	Study Plan - Applied Languages: Business Relations	3	-	6	52	162
		Study Plan-Applied Languages: Translation	3	-	6	52	162
LLC	15	Joint Language Plan-German/French	3	-	6	52	162
		Joint Language Plan-French/Spanish	3	-	6	52	162
		Single Language Plan-French	3	-	6	52	162
		Portuguese and Foreign Lauguage (French)	3	-	6	52	162
		English Studies Plan (Teaching) With French	3	-	6	52	162
		Joint Language Plan -English/French	3	-	6	52	162
LRI	5	Study Plan	3	-	6	52	162
		Study Plan - Minor in History	3	-	6	52	162
		Study Plan - Minor in German Studies	3	-	6	52	162
		Study Plan - Minor in English Studies	3	-	6	52	162
		Study Plan - Minor in Spanish Studies	3	-	6	52	162
		Study Plan - Minor in French Studies	3	-	6	52	162

Teaching language

Francês

Objectives

-Propose an action-based methodological approach to help students acquire the know-how needed in private, social, educational and professional life.

- Cater for the language requirements (written and oral) so that students can “manage alone all communication situations in which they are involved or are able to identify and use on their own the resources required”. This course unit will therefore improve the skills of an independent user.

- Introduce different documents and tasks according to the students’ profiles (specialisation in teaching, translation or other).
- Consolidate prior learning and facilitate the acquisition of linguistic tools paying particular attention on spiral progression and resumption of contents of previous semesters.
- Choose appropriate strategies to be used by students to develop each of the four communication skills, helping them learn to learn.
- Present different viewpoints on aspects of life and of contemporary Francophone cultures, to reflect their diversity, strengthen motivation and facilitate communication and relations with “native speakers”, in an intercultural perspective.

Program

- Main functional aspects: report proposals, describe, inform, insist, justify, show agreement/disagreement, personal life story, critically evaluate, explain, assert own opinion, justify an opinion and discuss, persuade, identify implicit messages, organise ideas according to intention, recipients, context and the desired effect, use appropriate extra-linguistic signs, summarise.
- Linguistic aspects: reported speech, the place of the attributive adjective, highlighting processes, the use of the presentatives, time indicators, nuanced discourses using adjectives, the use of the indicative or subjunctive in relative clauses. Increasing vocabulary: related to sensations, emotions, feelings, professional life, and environment. Identify lexical specificities in documents.
- Socio-linguistic, socio-cultural and pragmatic aspects: using French as a personal, social and cultural development tool. Shared references and news from the Francophone world: from the past to modernity, presentation of elements in the fields of sociology, history, politics, science and art. The aim is to encourage students to open up to multiculturalism

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, simulations.
- Monologues : spontaneous or prepare, 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.
- Reading and various activities on the programme contents thematic research, lexical analysis …)
- Exercises: retaining, re-using and processing complex linguistic aspects.
-Comparative analysis of discourse and linguistic procedures in LM and LE.
- Prepare, during the semester, a learning record for the purpose of self-assessment.
- Activities that assess students’ skills. (Check if student has met its intentions and the effectiveness of methods used, in order to identify aspects needing improvement).

Teaching methods and learning activities

Practical classes; tutorials. Varied teaching/learning strategies. Group work, in pairs and individual work. The active participation and autonomy of students are two of the components that will be assessed during the semester

keywords

Humanities > language sciences
Humanities > language sciences > Languages > Modern languages
Humanities > language sciences > Languages > Modern languages > European languages
Humanities

Evaluation Type

Distributed evaluation without final exam

Assessment Components

Description	Type	Time (hours)	Weight (%)	End date
Attendance (estimated)	Participação presencial	56,00
	Exame	4,00		2012-02-11
	Exame	6,00		2012-02-11
	Trabalho escrito	37,00		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	55	2012-02-11
	Total:	55,00

Eligibility for exams

Attending 75% of classes, unless established otherwise by law.

Calculation formula of final grade

Written: 50%
Oral: 50%

Examinations or Special Assignments

Not applicable

Special assessment (TE, DA, ...)

Not applicable

Classification improvement

In accordance with the Assessment Regulations in force.

Observations

Teaching language: French