This module is for students who have continued to study French after their A-level in French or who have acquired a comparable level via other routes. It is also open to students who have completed French E and F (modules CE1095 and CE1096).

You are at this stage where you’re nearly an ‘independent user’. As such you’re beginning to feel at ease in social situations, you can initiate a conversation, you have a good awareness of language, you can correct yourself and rectify any mistakes.

The aim of this module is to strengthen your language skills to the competence of the independent user. The emphasis will be on effective argumentation: defending a point of view on a subject, giving pros and cons of an argument. The course prepares for DELF B2 which can be taken every June at the Centre.
 

METHODS OF TEACHING: i) Weekly two-hour workshops ii) Self study including use of digital language laboratory and Learning Central.
METHODS OF ASSESSMENT: i) Coursework 20% ii) Written test 40% iii) Oral assessment 20% iv) Aural test 20%.

Email: Languages@cardiff.ac.uk

• demonstrate their ability to understand a wider range of demanding, longer texts, and recognise implicit meaning by adequately completing reading and listening tasks,
• show their ability of controlled use of organisational patterns, connectors and cohesive devices by producing clear, smoothly flowing, well-structured speech,
• produce a lengthy, well structured, detailed text on complex subjects, applying a style appropriate to the reader in mind by writing essays and other forms of written productions,
• show the ability to interact with a degree of fluency and spontaneity that makes regular interaction with a native speaker quite possible without strain for either party

This module will be taught in small groups to encourage interaction. The emphasis will be on communication. The module is taught over 12 weeks and is conducted in French.

Intellectual Skills                     -    integrate information provided in taught sessions and private study. 

Discipline Specific (including practical) Skills:

1. demonstrate their ability to express themselves fluently and maintain a lengthy conversation in the target language on a wide range of topics.
2. demonstrate their ability to construct a clear, detailed text on a wide range of subjects , expressing points of view at some length.
3. demonstrate their ability to understand long and complex factual and literary texts, appreciating a certain distinction of style.
4. understand extended speech even when it is not clearly structured and when relationships are only implied and not signalled explicitly. 

Employability Skills:      - to be responsive to the discipline of working with others as part of a group,

                                            - to understand and reflect upon different cultures and societies

Wide range of topics including everyday life in French speaking countries and current affairs.

Topics include issues regarding French language, French culture and society and politics (lifelong learning, environmental issues, generations, etc).

Grammar: students will revise major grammatical points as and when necessary, with an emphasis on further practise of prepositions, conjunctions, subjunctive and passive voice.

Suggested:

Grammaire Progressive Du Français – Niveau Avancé, CLE International, 1997

Réussir Le Delf B2 (Livre & CD), Baptiste A., Marty R., Didier, 2010