French C2.2

Code:

MTSL010

Acronym:

FC2.2

Keywords
Classification	Keyword
OFICIAL	Foreign Languages

Instance: 2015/2016 - 2S

Active?	Yes
Web Page:	http://moodle.up.pt
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
MTSL	3	MTSL - Study Plan	1	-	6	60	162

Teaching language

Francês

Objectives

By the end of this first master level, students should be able to: a) understand and interpret all kinds of documents (written, oral and media) ; b) write properly coherent and efficient texts ; c) interact in oral and written contexts, d) produce a logical and clear speech ; e) create and investigate a corpus to get a better understanding of some aspect of the French language. They should have f) enlarged their learning skills using several tools ; g) consolidated intercultural and French speaking world knowlwlege and know-how.

Learning outcomes and competences

Students are expected to be competent (written and oral discourse) according to ERF criteria.

Working method

Presencial

Pre-requirements (prior knowledge) and co-requirements (common knowledge)

FR C1.1 required

Program

1. Linguistic aspects seen during the first semester will be reviewed (language registers, denotation and connotation, collocations and idioms, modals, cohesion and coherence);

2. Specific exercises on persisting difficulties at lexical and syntactic level;

3. Written, oral and multimedia authentic documents comprehension;

4. Production of argumentative texts;

5. Text rewriting;

6. Debates;

7. Individual project / specific French social topic after research with a view to an oral and written presentation.

Mandatory literature

Thyrion Francine; La dissertation. Du lieu commun au texte de réflexion personnelle, De boeck - Duculot , 2006. ISBN: 978-2-8011-1389-9/1374-0881
Wilmet Marc; Grammaire critique du français, De Boeck - Duculot , 2010. ISBN: 978-2-8011-1610-4

Comments from the literature

A specific bibliography will be suggested.

Teaching methods and learning activities

Interactive and task-oriented approach.

The proposed activities aim to develop students’ skills and autonomy by completing various tasks, individually or in a group, in order to achieve results to be shared in class or on the Moodle platform.

Software

Moodle
Corpógrafo

keywords

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

Evaluation Type

Distributed evaluation without final exam

Assessment Components

Designation	Weight (%)
Participação presencial	10,00
Prova oral	40,00
Teste	30,00
Trabalho escrito	20,00
Total:	100,00

Amount of time allocated to each course unit

Designation	Time (hours)
Estudo autónomo	52,00
Frequência das aulas	60,00
Trabalho de investigação	50,00
Total:	162,00

Eligibility for exams

Students are expected to attend 75% of classes.

Calculation formula of final grade

Final everage of all assessment components.

Classification improvement

According to FLUP regulation.