FR3402:06
Advanced French 2
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 2.
Staff: Dr C Mann.
General French language appropriate to the objective outlined below.
Learning Objectives:
- to take students to a level of basic “vocational” proficiency (approximately 3 on the ISLPR scale). Students will be able to handle confidently telephone conversations, to detect certain nuances from the French (rather than from extra-linguistics clues), such as irony or admiration. News items on television will be well understood, as well as from weekly news magazines such a L’Express. Novels will only occasionally present difficulties of idiom and vocabulary. Students will generally use a wide range of complex sentence structures accurately and be able to vary their style within limited parameters.
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.