CONTEMPORARY FRENCH LANGUAGE
Academic Year 2023/2024 - Teacher:
LOREDANA PAVONE
Expected Learning Outcomes
To achieve oral and written skills in French at C1 Plus level (Framework).
According to the Dublin descriptors, students, at the
end of the course, will demonstrate:
1)
Knowledge and understanding (the main characteristics of
language discrimination; French regional languages)
2)
Applying knowledge and understanding (researching information and
compare specialised views on plural
identities and regional languages)
3)
Making judgements (expressing a personal opinion on a current
French topic)
4)
Communication skills (Debate about controversial topics in applied
linguistics; writing creative texts, producing sociolinguistically and
pragmatically appropriate written and oral utterances
5)
Learning skills (developing personal strategies for
self-learning)To achieve oral and written skills in French at C1 Plus level (Framework).
Course Structure
Lectures, multimedia activities (independent and guided individual
exercises).
Attendance of Lessons
Attendance is not compulsory.
Detailed Course Content
In-depth analysis of the main characteristics of contemporary French. Regional
languages and language discrimination Some recurrent stylistic. and socio-pragmalinguistic phenomena will be analysed.
Textbook Information
A Oral and
written skills at C2 Plus level (3 ECTS) -Annual
- AA.VV., Tendances. Niveaux C1-C2, Livre de l'élève + DVD ROM, Paris,
Clé international, 2019, pp. 62-203.
- AA.VV., Tendances. Niveaux C1/C2, Cahier
d'activités, Paris, Clé international, 2019 (avec corrigés et
transcriptions), pp. 66-159.
-
AA.VV. Exercices de
grammaire française, Bruxelles,
De Boeck-Duculot, 4e édition revue et corrigée, 2010 (avec corrigés
et CD-ROM), coll. <Grevisse>, pp. 251 (self-directed study).
B Regional
languages of France, language discrimination and plural identity (3 ECTS) – Annual
- M. Avanzi, A. Vincenti, A. Rey, Comme on dit chez nous. Le grand livre
du français de nos régions, Paris, Le Robert, 2020, pp. 1-240
- Ph. Blanchet, Discriminations : combattre la
glottophobie, Paris, Lambert-Lucas,
2019, 2ème éd. revue, pp. 1-152
Please remember that in compliance with art 171
L22.04.1941, n. 633 and its amendments, it is illegal to copy entire books or
journals, only 15% of their content can be copied.
For further information on sanctions and regulations
concerning photocopying please refer to the regulations on copyright (Linee
Guida sulla Gestione dei Diritti d’Autore) provided by AIDRO - Associazione
Italiana per i Diritti di Riproduzione delle opere dell’ingegno (the Italian
Association on Copyright).
All the books listed in the programs can be consulted in the Library.
