James Cook University Subject Handbook - 2002

FR3401:06

Advanced French 1

Townsville, Cairns

HECS Band 1

26 hours lectures, 39 hours tutorials (Townsville campus); 26 hours video-conferenced lectures, 26 hours video-conferenced tutorials, 13 hours tutorials held in Cairns, eight hours supplementary tutorials held in Cairns over four weekends (Cairns campus). Semester 1.

Staff: Dr C Mann.

General French language appropriate to the objective outlined below.

Learning Objectives:

  1. to take students to a level approaching minimum “vocational” proficiency (a notional 3- on the ISLPR scale). Students will be able to interact with French speakers with little allowance being made for slower than usual responses or inaccuracies of expression. Skills will include a growing ability to pick different registers, both in spoken and written French.

Assessment by in-class tests and/or end-of-semester examinations: listening (25%); speaking (25%); reading (25%); writing (25%). Completion of three-weekly homework assignments is a compulsory requirement of the subject.