FRENCH LANGUAGE 1

knowledge and understanding:

The course aims to the acquisition of linguistic communication skills - receiving, production and interaction – according to the C1 level of the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages and also includes a competence related to the analysis of linguistic problems, especially in the field of interlinguistic contact.

applying knowledge and understanding:

Thanks to the acquisition of linguistic knowledge and cultural competences in French and European areas, the students will acquire the ability to combine knowledge in an interdisciplinary way, and interpret different cultural areas. They will also be able to identify and solve problems related to linguistic exchange.

making judgment:

Thanks to the acquisition of concepts of French and Francophone culture and society, and the consequent development of its competence, students can face problematic situations consequential to the comparison among different cultures and combine knowledge in an interdisciplinary way.

communication skills:

Students will acquire the ability to express in an articulated way their own thoughts, projects and the results studies and to effectively communicate in autonomous way, adjusting what they have learned during the course of studies to diversified working contexts.

learning skills:

Students will be able to create relationships and to interact in more languages with heterogeneous interlocutory in different professional and cultural contexts, in which they will know how to interpret, to understand and to use in autonomous way the formalities of expression and communication.

The course includes three modules:

1. History of the language (18 hours)
2. Methodology: theorical atelier for the written test (plan de la dissertation) (24 hours)
3. In-depht studies: Le français dans le monde (12 hours)

The course aims to reach the communication skills corresponding to the C1 level of the Common European Framework, also developing skills about the historical evolution of French language (from origins to the XX century), instructing student to be able to write a "plan de la dissertation" and deepening the linguistic varieties and culture of France and Francophony.

History of French language

- M. Huchon, Histoire de la langue française, Librairie générale française, Le livre de poche, Paris, 2002

- Materials provided by the teacher

Methodology

- Dossier provided by the teacher

- P. Tort, P. Desalmand, Du plan à la dissertation, Hatier, Paris, 2000 (free online).

In-depht studies

Dossier provided by the teacher

Text for laboratorie and exercices with foreign language assistants

A. Berthet et al., Alter ego C1+, Livre de l'élève, Livre + CD audio, Paris, Hachette, 2006.

Recommended bilingual dictionaries

Garzanti, Dizionario fr-it.; it.-fr., Garzanti, last ed.

Il Larousse francese. fr.-it. ,it.-fr., Rizzoli/Larousse, last ed.

Recommended monolingual dictionaries

Le Petit Robert, Le Robert, last ed.

Le Petit Larousse illustré, Larousse, last ed.

Trésor de la langue française informatisé (http://atilf.atilf.fr/tlf.htm).