French language

Academic Year 2025/2026 - Teacher: LAURA GIURDANELLA

Expected Learning Outcomes

1)      Knowledge and understanding

At the end of the course, students will reach linguistic competence corresponding to the C1 level of the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages. Through the acquisition of various reading skills, linguistic analysis of authentic materials, their ability to understand and critically investigate the text will be enhanced, especially in the area of inter-linguistic contact.

 

2)      Ability to apply knowledge and understanding

Through the acquisition of linguistic knowledge and cultural skills in the French, European and non-European fields, students will acquire the ability to combine knowledge in an interdisciplinary manner and to interpret and relate different linguistic and cultural fields, demonstrating the ability to identify and solve problems related to language exchange

 

3)      Autonomy of judgement

Students acquire technical knowledge in the area of comprehension, analysis and interpretation of micro-linguistic texts and French and Francophone culture. Having acquired the concepts of culture and interculture, students will be able to deal with problematic situations arising from the comparison of different cultures and combine knowledge in an interdisciplinary manner.

 

4)      Communication skills

According to the C1 level of the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages, students will learn to compare, present and describe a wide range of complex texts in a clear and articulated way, recognizing their implicit meaning and developing specific points. The use of language will be increasingly fluent, flexible and effective for social, professional and academic purposes. They will be able to produce clear, quite long, well-constructed and detailed texts on complex topics, showing control of textual structure, connectors and cohesive elements; they will formulate ideas and opinions on the material covered.

 

5)      Learning ability

During the course, the necessary tools will be provided so that the knowledge acquired, both on a methodological and content level, can be used in the future to independently deal with written and oral linguistic interaction in specialist and non-specialist fields of communication.

Detailed Course Content

The course aims to reach the communication skills corresponding to the C1 level of the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages, also developing skills about the French language for diplomacy and international affairs, the historical evolution of French language and deepening the linguistic varieties of France and Francophony, and finally about the didactics of the French language as a foreign language. The course includes three modules:

1. Le français diplomatique et des relations internationales (3 CFU)

2. Histoire de la langue française (2 CFU)

3. Didactique du FLE (4 CFU)

Textbook Information

Le français diplomatique et des relations internationales

The teacher will provide a dossier on Studium plateform, containing the following essays:

  • L. Harutyunyan, A. Marutyan, L. Vardanyan, Diplomatie, Mission diplomatique, dans La Politique et la Diplomatie par les textes, Erevan, Édition de l’Université d’État d’Erevan, 2014, pp. 15 (parties choisies);
  • A. Mihalovics, Quelques traits caractéristiques des documents diplomatiques, dans « Revue d’Études Françaises », n. 6, 2001, pp. 109-111;
  • E. Pascual, La communication écrite en diplomatie, Perpignan, Presses Universitaires de Perpignan, 2004, pp. 8-71;
  • O. Arifon, Langue diplomatique et langage formel : un code à double entente, dans « Hermès, La Revue », n. 58, 2010, pp. 69-78;
  • Dix défis pour les Nations unies en 2024-2025?, dans International Crisis Group, Special Briefing, 12, « Multilateral Diplomacy », 10 septembre 2024, pp. 1-7.

 

 

Histoire de langue française

M. Huchon, Histoire de la langue française, Paris, Librairie générale française, 2002, pp. 11-286 («Le livre de poche»).

 

La didactique du FLE

The teacher will provide a dossier on Studium plateform, containing the following essays:

  • J.P. Cuq-I. Gruca, Cours de didactique du français langue étrangère et seconde, PUG, 2017, ch. 2, pp. 41-69;
  • P. E. Balboni, Modèles opérationnels pour l‘éducation linguistique, tr. en français d’O. Chantelauve, Guerra Edizioni, 2007, pp. 5-55.

Textbooks for laboratories and lectorship with foreign language Assistants

C. Pinson, A. Bourmayan et al., Édito. Méthode de Français, niveau C1, Livre + DVD-rom, Paris, Didier, nouvelle éd. 2024.

C. Pinson, A. Bourmayan et al., Édito. Cahier d’activités, niveau C1, Paris, Didier, nouvelle éd. 2024.

 

Recommended textbooks

I. BarbiÈre, M.-L. Parizet, abc DALF C1/C2, 150 exercices, (Livre + CD-rom, Livre-web), Paris, CLE International, 2019.

 

Recommended bilingual dictionaries

Garzanti, Dizionario fr-it.; it.-fr., Garzanti, ultima ed.

Il Larousse francese. fr.-it. ,it.-fr., Rizzoli/Larousse, ultima ed.

 

Recommended monolingual dictionaries

Le Petit Robert, Le Robert, ultima edizione.

Le Petit Larousse illustré, Larousse, 2012.

Trésor de la langue française informatisé (http://atilf.atilf.fr/tlf.htm).

DES – Dictionnaire Électronique des Synonymes, Centre de Recherches Inter-langues sur la signification en Contexte (CRISCO) (https://crisco4.unicaen.fr/des/).

 

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.

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