Overview

This 40 credit module running throughout the year promotes appropriate use of style and register in all written and oral work and ensures that students can deal with variations in register and idiomatic expression in a confident and accurate manner. Through exposure to selected texts, complex grammatical structures and audiovisual materials, students acquire reading, writing, aural and oral skills which match the required standard of final year linguists.

Assessment Strategy

-threshold -40-49%: A limited knowledge of vocabulary and grammar and a limited ability to translate and paraphrase the prescribed range of texts. Basic oral and aural competence.

-good -50-69%: A good knowledge of vocabulary and grammar and a good ability to translate and paraphrase the prescribed range of texts. Good oral and aural competence.

-excellent -70+%: An excellent knowledge of vocabulary and grammar and an excellent ability to translate and paraphrase the prescribed range of texts. Excellent oral and aural competence.

Learning Outcomes

• Demonstrate in essay and translation work a sophisticated command of both French and English/Welsh that is alive to the rhetorical range of both languages.

• Display an ability in oral work to present in fluent French arguments that could be followed by native speakers of French with comparative ease.

• Students will be able to offer accurate and empathetic translations which not only capture the meaning of the text, but also its mood.

• Students will be able to present and defend oral material of sophisticated content and style, with a strong command of appropriate native speaker idiom.

• Students will demonstrate in essay writing a sophisticated command of French of suitably advanced register and lexis.

• Students will show advanced levels of accurate and incisive aural comprehension, and demonstrate the ability to correlate written and spoken contemporary French language.

• To understand and process complex texts and audiovisual materials varying in style, tone and register and comment on these texts in a concise and fluent manner.