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FRENCH LANGUAGE I

Valeria Anna VACCARO FRENCH LANGUAGE I

0312600092
DEPARTMENT OF HUMANISTIC STUDIES
EQF6
HUMANITIES
2024/2025



YEAR OF COURSE 2
YEAR OF DIDACTIC SYSTEM 2023
SPRING SEMESTER
CFUHOURSACTIVITY
1260LESSONS
VALERIA ANNA VACCARO T Curriculum
ExamDate
APPELLO RISERVATO AI F.C.09/01/2025 - 09:00
APPELLO STUDENTI CON 165 CFU09/01/2025 - 09:00
APPELLO GENNAIO16/01/2025 - 09:00
APPELLO FEBBRAIO12/02/2025 - 09:00
Objectives
GENERAL OBJECTIVE
THE FRENCH LANGUAGE COURSE AIMS TO PROVIDE TOOLS FOR STUDYING, UNDERSTANDING AND PRODUCING LANGUAGE IN ORDER TO ACHIEVE THE B1 INTERMEDIATE LEVEL OF THE FOUR SKILLS REQUIRED BY THE COMMON EUROPEAN FRAMEWORK OF REFERENCE FOR LANGUAGES.
KNOWLEDGE AND COMPREHENSION SKILLS
THE STUDENT WILL KNOW:
- THE MAIN PHONETIC, GRAMMATICAL, LEXICAL AND MORPHO-SYNTACTIC ASPECTS.
- THE BASIC VOCABULARY.
- THE CORRECT ARRANGEMENT OF THE MAIN FRENCH LANGUAGE STRUCTURES.
HE/SHE WILL ALSO UNDERSTAND THE RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN:
- ASPECTS OF FRENCH AND FRENCH-SPEAKING LANGUAGE AND CULTURE.
- FRENCH AND ITALIAN LANGUAGE (COMPARATIVE ASPECTS, FALSE FRIENDS WORDS (FAUX-AMIS), CONTRASTIVE ASPECTS).
- THE MECHANISMS OF FRENCH WRITTEN AND ORAL LANGUAGE.
ABILITY TO APPLY KNOWLEDGE AND UNDERSTANDING
THE STUDENT WILL BE ABLE TO:
- USE THE FRENCH LANGUAGE TO COMMUNICATE AND INTERACT.
- UNDERSTAND AND TRANSLATE SHORT TEXTS FROM FRENCH INTO ITALIAN.
- EXAMINE THE CONSTITUENT ELEMENTS OF LINGUISTIC PRODUCTIONS AND IDENTIFY THE MAIN TYPES OF COMMUNICATION (ANNOUNCEMENTS, DOCUMENTS, REGISTRATIONS, WEBSITE HOMEPAGES, FORUMS, MESSAGES, LETTERS, POSTCARDS, FRIENDLY/FORMAL EMAILS, NEWSPAPER HEADLINES, PRESS ARTICLES, PRESENTATIONS, DESCRIPTIONS, PLANS, MAPS, GUIDE EXTRACTS, MENUS, LEAFLETS, BROCHURES, TICKETS, COMIC STRIPS, ADVERTISEMENTS, BIOGRAPHIES, INSTRUCTIONS, SHORT LITERARY EXTRACTS, DICTIONARY ENTRIES).
- DEVELOP ORAL COMMUNICATION STRATEGIES AND COMPOSE SHORT WRITTEN TEXTS ON ISSUES OF LANGUAGE AND CIVILISATION.
AUTONOMY OF JUDGEMENT
THE STUDENT WILL BE ABLE TO:
- EVALUATE DIFFERENT TYPES OF EXPRESSION ACCORDING TO THE CONTEXT AND REFLECT ON GENERAL TOPICS OF FRENCH LANGUAGE AND CIVILISATION DEALT WITH DURING LESSONS.
- DISCERN DISTINCTIVE LINGUISTIC AND CULTURAL FORMS; WILL HAVE ACQUIRED MASTERY OF STUDY AND SYNTHESIS.
- SELECT RELEVANT CONTENT ACCORDING TO THE DIFFERENT DISCOURSE TYPES.
- DEVELOP THE ABILITY TO ANALYSE AND REFLECT ON CURRENT TOPICS.
COMMUNICATION SKILLS
THE STUDENT WILL BE ABLE TO:
- COMMUNICATE IN FRENCH IN DIFFERENT CONTEXTS
- ILLUSTRATE AND SUMMARISE -USING TRADITIONAL MATERIALS AND VIRTUAL TOOLS- RESULTS OF STUDIES OR PERSONAL WORK.
LEARNING SKILLS
THE STUDENT WILL BE ABLE TO:
- USE TRADITIONAL BIBLIOGRAPHICAL TOOLS AND IT RESOURCES TO INTERPRET LINGUISTIC AND CULTURAL CONTENT.
- CARRY OUT STUDY ACTIVITIES TO UNDERSTAND ADVERTISING, JOURNALISTIC, PHILOSOPHICAL AND LITERARY TEXTS.
- UPDATE THEIR LINGUISTIC ACQUISITIONS AND CULTURAL KNOWLEDGE WITH THE USE OF COMPUTING RESOURCES.

Prerequisites
PASSING THE FRENCH LANGUAGE LABORATORY.
BEGINNER STUDENTS OR STUDENTS WHO HAVE AN ELEMENTARY KNOWLEDGE OF THE FRENCH LANGUAGE.
Contents
METHOD BOOK – “BIDAUD”:
MORPHOSYNTACTIC TOPICS:
- ADJECTIVES OF NATIONALITY, INDEFINITE,
- POSSESSIVE ADJECTIVES, DEMONSTRATIVE ADJECTIVES,
- MASCULINE AND FEMININE PROFESSIONS
- DEFINITE, INDEFINITE, CONTRACTED AND PARTIAL ARTICLES,
- PREPOSITIONS BEFORE COUNTRY NOUNS,
- NEGATION,
- INTERROGATION,
- AUXILIARY VERBS TO BE, TO HAVE,
- VERBS IN THE 1ST, 2ND AND 3RD GROUPS, MODALS: PRESENT TENSE, IMPERFECT TENSE, PAST TENSE, FUTURE TENSE, CONDITIONAL TENSE, PAST PARTICIPLE,
- THE PRESENT TENSE C'EST/ CE SONT, DIFFERENCE BETWEEN « C'EST / IL EST », « C'EST / IL Y A »,
- GALLICISMS,
- THE GENDER AND NUMBER OF NOUNS/ADJECTIVES,
- COD AND COI PRONOUNS, “ EN” AND “Y”,
- RELATIVE PRONOUNS,
- QUANTITY,
- THE PLACE OF ADJECTIVES,
- PRONOMINAL VERBS,
- IMPERSONAL VERBS,
- THE IMPERATIVE,
- ANTERIORITY AND POSTERIORITY,
- PREPOSITIONS OF TIME AND PLACE,
- COMPARISON,
- OBLIGATION AND PROHIBITION,
- CONDITIONS,
- DURATION,
- INTENSITY.

FRENCH LINGUISTICS TOPICS :
- THE PECULIARITIES OF FRENCH SOUNDS,
- THE PHONETIC PROBLEMS OF ITALIAN SPEAKERS,
- PHONETICS AND PHENOMENA: SPELLING/PRONUNCIATION RELATIONSHIP, STRESS/DE-EMPHASIS, LINKING, VOWEL AND CONSONANT SEQUENCE, NASALISATION, DENASALISATION, VOWELS/MUTE CONSONANTS. CONTRASTIVE STUDY, FALSE FRIENDS.
BOOK OF CIVILISATION –“PROGRESSIVE CIVILISATION OF FRENCH” :
- GEOGRAPHY: THE FRENCH SPACE - POPULATION - REGIONS - PARIS.
- HISTORY: THE NATION-STATE - LANDMARKS (1789, 1968, FROM THE COLONIAL EMPIRE TO DECOLONISATION).
- POLITICS: POLITICAL LIFE - THE CHOICE OF EUROPE - THE FRENCH-SPEAKING WORLD.
- FRANCOPHONIE: THE MAJOR FRENCH-SPEAKING REGIONS.
BOOK ON TEXT TYPES – “CHARNET” :
- METHODOLOGY: DEFINITIONS OF SUMMARY, REPORT AND SYNTHESIS - METHODOLOGICAL ADVICE - APPLICATION.
- PRACTICE: FIRST APPROACH TO A TEXT.
(« LE FRANÇAIS DE NOS JOURS »’ BOOK) TOPICS : BROAD LINGUISTIC AND CULTURAL ACCESS TO CONTEMPORARY FRENCH: THE DYNAMICS OF SPOKEN AND WRITTEN FRENCH, SYNTAX, EUROPEAN AND INTERNATIONAL FRANCOPHONE AREAS. BOOK CHAPTERS : 1. SPOKEN FRENCH; 2. WRITTEN FRENCH; 5. SENTENCE STRUCTURE IN CONTEMPORARY FRENCH; 9. FRANCOPHONY.


Teaching Methods
TEACHING INVOLVES FACE-TO-FACE LESSONS DURING WHICH THE ACQUISITION OF SUITABLE STRATEGIES TO APPLY IN FRENCH LANGUAGE INTERACTION TAKES PLACE. ACTIVITIES ARE PROPOSED TO THE STUDENTS IN ORDER TO ARRANGE THE MAIN PHONETIC, LEXICAL, GRAMMATICAL AND MORPHO-SYNTACTIC ASPECTS TO PUT INTO PRACTICE THE FOUR LANGUAGE SKILLS OF FRENCH IN CONTEXT. (ABOUT 35 HOURS)
THE LANGUAGE ACQUISITION METHOD CONSISTS OF DEVELOPING SKILLS THAT LEAD STUDENTS TO THE DISCOVERY, CONCEPTUALISATION AND ASSIMILATION OF LINGUISTIC CONTENT IN RELATION TO PRAGMATIC OBJECTIVES.
IN ORDER TO ACQUIRE SKILLS IN COMPREHENSION AND PRODUCTION (WRITTEN AND ORAL), STUDENTS ARE ENCOURAGED TO REASON AND COMPARE THEIR LANGUAGE AND CULTURE THROUGH THE STUDY OF AUTHENTIC DOCUMENTS AND ACTIVITIES OF READING, TRANSLATION, ‘EXPLICATION DE TEXTE’ OF TOPICS COVERED IN METHOD AND CIVILISATION BOOKS. THIS PHASE PROMOTES THE ABILITY TO CRITICALLY REFLECT ON LANGUAGE MECHANISMS AS WELL AS ONE'S OWN CULTURE IN RELATION TO FRENCH AND FRANCOPHONE CULTURES. (ABOUT 20 HOURS OF FRENCH CIVILISATION)
PART OF THE COURSE IS DEDICATED TO KNOWLEDGE OF TEXT TYPES AND THE MAIN TECHNIQUES OF TEXT REDUCTION (SUMMARY, REPORT, SYNTHESIS). (CIRCA 5 ORE)

Verification of learning
THE EXAM IS AIMED AT EVALUATING THE KNOWLEDGE OF THE FUNDAMENTAL PRINCIPLES OF THE FRENCH AND FRANCOPHONE LANGUAGE AND CIVILIZATION AND OF THE LINGUISTIC MECHANISMS IN CORRELATION WITH THE PRAGMATIC AND CONTEXTUAL ASPECTS.
AT THE END OF THE COURSE, ATTENDING AND NON-ATTENDING STUDENTS ARE REQUIRED TO TAKE THE ORAL EXAM, WHICH INCLUDES:
- VERIFICATION OF THE MORPHOSYNTACTIC, GRAMMATICAL AND LEXICAL KNOWLEDGE ACQUIRED DURING THE LESSONS THAT REGULATE THE COMMUNICATIVE AND INTERACTIONAL PROCESSES IN FRENCH;
- CONVERSATION IN THE LANGUAGE ON THE TOPICS CONTAINED IN THE TEXTBOOKS ADOPTED, THOSE PRESENTED IN THE CLASSROOM AND IN THE LANGUAGE LABORATORIES TO VERIFY THE LEVEL REACHED BY THE STUDENT IN THE ABILITY TO APPLY KNOWLEDGE;
- READING, TRANSLATION, SUMMARY OF TEXTS CONCERNING FRENCH AND FRANCOPHONE CULTURE IN ORDER TO VERIFY THE UNDERSTANDING AND SYNTHESIS SKILLS ACQUIRED BY THE STUDENT.
THERE ARE ONGOING TESTS (2 H: 10 EXERCISES, 1 POINT FOR EACH EXERCISE) AND WRITTEN PRODUCTIONS THAT STUDENTS WILL BRING TO THE EXAM.
Texts
METHOD BOOK:
BIDAUD F., GRANGE M.-C., SEGHI J.-P., “MANUEL DE FRANÇAIS”, FRENCH LANGUAGE COURSE, LEVELS A1-A2 OF THE COMMON EUROPEAN FRAMEWORK OF REFERENCE FOR LANGUAGES, WITH 2 AUDIO CD, HOEPLI, MILAN.
FRENCH AND FRANCOPHONE CIVILISATION BOOK:
STEELE R., « CIVILISATION PROGRESSIVE DU FRANÇAIS », A2-B1 NIVEAU INTERMÉDIAIRE, AVEC 600 ACTIVITÉS, CLE INTERNATIONAL, DERNIÈRE ÉDITION.
BOOK ON TEXTUAL TYPOLOGIES :
CHARNET C., ROBIN-NIPI J., « RÉDIGER UN RÉSUMÉ, UN COMPTE RENDU, UNE SYNTHÈSE », HACHETTE, FLE, PARIS, DERNIÈRE ÉDITION.
FRENCH LINGUISTICS BOOK :
ZANOLA M.T., « LE FRANÇAIS DE NOS JOURS », CAROCCI PUBLISHER, ROME.

A BILINGUAL FRENCH-ITALIAN, ITALIAN-FRENCH DICTIONARY IS RECOMMENDED:
- ROBERT-SIGNORELLI, FRENCH-ITALIAN, ITALIAN-FRENCH DICTIONARY, PARIS, LE ROBERT, LATEST EDITION.
- R. BOCH, DICTIONARY FRENCH-ITALIAN, ITALIAN-FRENCH, BOLOGNA, ZANICHELLI, LATEST EDITION.
(STUDY MATERIAL) CONTRASTIVE GRAMMAR MANUAL:
PARODI L., VALLACCO M., “GRAMMATHÈQUE”, CONTRASTIVE GRAMMAR FOR ITALIANS, CIDEB, GENOA, LATEST EDITION.
PARODI L., VALLACCO M., “GRAMMATHÈQUE” EXERCICES, CONTRASTIVE GRAMMAR FOR ITALIANS, CIDEB, GENOA, LATEST EDITION.
More Information
THE COURSE IS HELD IN FRENCH LANGUAGE. TO ACHIEVE THE PREFIXED OBJECTIVES WE RECOMMEND ASSIDUAL ATTENDANCE.
PLEASE NOTE THAT THE PREPARATORY WORKSHOP FOR STUDENTS OF LITERATURE REQUIRES COMPULSORY ATTENDANCE.
IN ORDER TO GUIDE THE ANALYTICAL REFLECTION ON THE LANGUAGE, THE LESSONS CAN BE ACCOMPANIED BY PRACTICAL ACTIVITIES IN SELF-LEARNING MODE.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION REGARDING THE COURSE, THE STUDY MATERIAL, THE LABORATORY AND SELF-LEARNING AS WELL AS THE TEACHER'S RECEPTION TIMES, PLEASE REFER TO THE NOTICES ON THE BOARD AND ON THE WEB PAGES OF THE TEACHER HOLDING THE COURSE ON THE DEPARTMENT SITE.
IN CASE OF DIFFICULTY, STUDENTS CAN CONTACT THE TEACHER DIRECTLY VIA MAIL AND AT RECEPTION AND TUTORING TIMES.
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