French C2.1

Code:

MTSL009

Acronym:

FC2.1

Keywords
Classification	Keyword
OFICIAL	Foreign Languages

Instance: 2010/2011 - 1S

Active?	Yes
Responsible unit:	Department of Portuguese and Romance Studies
Course/CS Responsible:	Master of Arts in Translation and Language Services

Cycles of Study/Courses

Acronym	No. of Students	Study Plan	Curricular Years	Credits UCN	Credits ECTS	Contact hours	Total Time
MELCI	1	Ramo de E.Rom. e Clás. - Est. Franc. e Francófonos	1	-	6	60	162
MTSL	7	Specialized Translation	1	-	6	60	162
		Translation and Language Services	1	-	6	60	162

Teaching language

Francês

Objectives

Students who successfully complete this class will:
a) be able to understand any kind of texts in written, oral or multimodal form;
b) be able to write coherent, clear, fluent and precise texts in a suitable and effective style;
c) be able to effectively interact, writing or speaking;
d) be able to produce complex, clear and fluent oral discourse, following an effective logical structure;
e) have developed their learning autonomy skills;
f) have improved and developed general skills: knowledge of the Francophone world, avoir consolidé et élargi leurs compétences générales : connaissance du monde francophone,awareness of cultural, regional and social diversity, practcal and intercultural skills

Program

- Genres and registers;
- Collocations, idioms and other strings;
- Modalisation;
- Denotation and connotation;
- Cohesion and coherence;
- Francophony

Mandatory literature

P. ROBERT et alii ; Le Nouveau Petit Robert de la langue française 2007 , Le Robert, 2007. ISBN: 2-84902-133-4
GREVISSE, Maurice; Le bon usage, Duculot, 1993. ISBN: 2-8011-1045-0
BLAMPAIN, Daniel et HANSE, Joseph; Nouveau dictionnaire des difficultés du français moderne, Duculot, 2005. ISBN: 2-8011-1267-4

Teaching methods and learning activities

- Theoretical presentation followed by practice;
- Authentic documents from different fieds of knowledge;
- Mirror texts;
- Weekly writing assignment;
– Information retrieval , data mining, and oral and written presentation of results;
- Role playing

Software

Moodle

Evaluation Type

Distributed evaluation without final exam

Assessment Components

Description	Type	Time (hours)	Weight (%)	End date
Attendance (estimated)	Participação presencial	56,00
Test	Exame	2,00		2011-02-11
Projects	Defesa pública de dissertação, de relatório de projeto ou estágio, ou de tese	30,00		2011-02-11
Training	Teste	34,00		2011-02-11
	Total:	-	0,00

Amount of time allocated to each course unit

Description	Type	Time (hours)	End date
Reading	Estudo autónomo	40	2011-02-11
	Total:	40,00

Eligibility for exams

Students are expected to attend 75% of classes.

Calculation formula of final grade

Writing skills: 50%; Oral communication skills: 50%.