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2019/2020

Use of Written French

Code: 103319 ECTS Credits: 6
Degree Type Year Semester
2501913 English and French OB 1 2
2502533 French Studies FB 1 2

Contact

Name:
Ricard Ripoll Villanueva
Email:
Ricard.Ripoll@uab.cat

Use of Languages

Principal working language:
(fre)
Some groups entirely in English:
No
Some groups entirely in Catalan:
No
Some groups entirely in Spanish:
No

Prerequisites

Non applicable

Objectives and Contextualisation

The subject "Use of the written French language" is part of the basic training of the students of the degree.
of French Studies as well as the students of the Grades of French and Catalan Studies, French and Spanish Studies and
Spanish, French and English Studies and French and Classical Studies. As a basic training subject
is a compulsory subject.
 
The content of this subject is aimed at the training in instrumental French language of the
student through the production and comprehension of documents of different typologies in current French language.
 
At the end of the course the student will be able to:
 
- understand the general information and all the important data of authentic and adapted written texts, of
varied length, differentiating facts from opinions and identifying the communicative intention of the author.
- to write in a guided way several texts in different supports, taking care of the lexicon, the structures and the opinions of the author.
elements of cohesion and coherence to mark the relationship between ideas and make them comprehensible to the reader.
 
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Competences

    English and French
  • Apply the techniques of French oral and written expression corresponding to different levels of competence.
  • Develop critical thinking and reasoning and knowing how to communicate effectively both in your mother tongue and in other languages.
  • Respect the diversity and plurality of ideas, people and situations.
  • Students must be capable of communicating information, ideas, problems and solutions to both specialised and non-specialised audiences.
  • Students must develop the necessary learning skills in order to undertake further training with a high degree of autonomy.
    French Studies
  • Clearly and accurately expressing their ideas in French in oral and written form (Level A2).
  • Develop critical thinking and reasoning and knowing how to communicate effectively both in your mother tongue and in other languages.
  • Respect the diversity and plurality of ideas, people and situations.
  • Students must be capable of communicating information, ideas, problems and solutions to both specialised and non-specialised audiences.
  • Students must develop the necessary learning skills in order to undertake further training with a high degree of autonomy.

Learning Outcomes

  1. Analysing and using the techniques of written expression in French language.
  2. Distinguishing, analysing and using different linguistic resources adapted to the typology and context of oral and written production in French (Level A2).
  3. Effectively communicating and applying the argumentative and textual processes to formal and scientific texts.
  4. Effectively working in teams and respecting different opinions.
  5. Identifying the main and secondary ideas and expressing them with linguistic correctness.
  6. Interpreting the content of written texts in French language of various kinds.
  7. Making predictions and inferences about the content of written and oral documents in French (Level A2).
  8. Organising the content of a text and an oral or written discourse and change the style and vocabulary according to the situation of communication (Level A2).
  9. Producing written texts in French language that are appropriate to various situations of communication.
  10. Solving problems autonomously.
  11. Using strategies in order to help the reading and comprehension in French (Level A2).

Content

The course aims to develop a range of skills not only linguistic but also pragmatic, textual and sociocultural as well as an ability to learn to learn to learn. The development of these skills will be achieved by the written practice of the language which encompasses all its aspects (communicative, grammatical, lexical,...).

In this course comprehension and written expression will be the main work.

 1. On the reading

1.1. Approach to the reading process: verbalization or reading aloud; and comprehensive reading or access to the meaning and communicative intentions of the authors of the texts.

1.2. Quick and efficient reading: role of para-text and pre-text; partial reading and global comprehension.

1.3. Reading and note-taking (text structure, basic ideas and secondary ideas).

1.4. Destructing texts: drawing up diagrams and concept maps.

1.5.  Reading and summary, report and synthesis.

2. On written expression

2.0. The production process of any text: steps and activities to be carried out.

2.1 "Design" or "inventio": research and preparation of relevant and sufficient information for the text to be produced.

2.2 "Organisation": structuring of the information found and collected.

2.3 "Reframing": evaluation of the results of the search for information and the structuring of the text to be produced.

2.4 "Mise en mots": actual drafting of the text

2.5 "Revision and correction" of successive versions of the text to be produced.

2.6 "Layout": distribution of the latest version of the text on the paper page.

2.7. Activities to practice micro-skills, presented from a theoretical-practical point of view, in2.1., 2.2., 2.3., 2.4., 2.5. and 2.6.

2.8. Individual and/or team production of various texts (narrative texts, descriptions, letters, comments on the Internet, journalistic articles (news, reviews, analysis, personal reflection, etc.).

2.9.  Collective correction and self-correction of the texts produced.

2.10. Rewriting of texts already produced, transcoding,...

 

3. Systematic review of the fundamental morphosyntactic microstructures of the French language: this review will be conditioned by the gaps detected in students' written productions.

Methodology

The course of the use of written French language is instrumental and essentially practical. The emphasis in the training activities is on the active participation of the student in order to assimilate the competences foreseen in this teaching guide.
 
 In general terms, it will direct learning through the following set of techniques and actions:
 
 - Master class with ICT support and collective discussion
 
 - Practice of written expression in French language
 
 - Analysis of grammatical phenomena
 
 - Comprehensive reading of texts
 
 - Realization of diagrams, concept maps and summaries
 
 - Individual and group exercises (letters, invitations, narrations...)
 
 - Accomplishment of autonomous activities: exercises, preparation of the proves, lectures, writing, research of information to Internet...
 
 - Intercanvis a classe (student-teacher, student-student)
 
 - Proves de gramàtica, d'expressió escrita i de comprensió escrita
 
 Es es treballarà amb documents autèntics en llengua francesa.
 

Activities

Title Hours ECTS Learning Outcomes
Type: Directed      
Comprehensive reading of texts 5 0.2 1, 2, 7, 5, 6, 8, 9, 11
Practical exercices 46 1.84 1, 2, 3, 7, 5, 6, 8, 9, 4, 11
magisterial classes with ICT support 12 0.48 1, 2, 7, 5, 6, 8, 9, 11
Type: Supervised      
Tutoring 8 0.32 1, 2, 3, 7, 5, 6, 8, 9, 10, 4, 11
Type: Autonomous      
Personal study 34 1.36 1, 2, 7, 5, 6, 8, 9, 10, 11
Pratical exercices and drafting of works 38 1.52 1, 2, 3, 7, 5, 6, 8, 9, 10, 4, 11

Assessment

EVALUATION
 
The evaluation of the course will be continuous and will include the feina feta throughout the course, both the different proves (25%) and the lliurats works (25%) during the whole semester and the participation in the activities of the class (25%). In addition, there will be a final test (25%).
 
The assessment activities will be carried out to the extent that it is necessary to address the different points of the programme.
 
The revisions of the qualifications will take place in the classroom (global revision) and in the professor's office (individual revision), a copy corrected, assessed and returned to the students the work or the exercise or the written proofs. At the time each assessment activity is carried out, the student will be informed of the date on which the qualifications were reviewed.
 
To participate in the recovery, the student must have previously been assessed in a set of activities the weight of which is equivalent to a minimum of 2/3 of the total qualification. Only those students who have been suspended have the right to recover and have a final average score of 3,5. Oral presentations and fees related to daily teaching activity are exempt from recovery. This will consist of an examination of syntheses of the recoverable part.

A student who has carried out less than 2/3 of the assessment activities will be considered 'NOT AVAILABLE'.
 
 
 
The plagiarism: The total and partial plagiarism of any exercise will automatically consider a SUSPENS (0) of the plagiarized exercise. PLAGIAR is to copy from unidentified sources of a text, either a single phrase or more, which is to be passed for own production (including copying phrases or fragments from the Internet and affirming them without modification to the text that is presented as proper), and it is a serious offense.
 
French students have to meet the same assessment conditions as the rest of the students. The responsibility for monitoring training and assessment activities lies exclusively with the student.

Assessment Activities

Title Weighting Hours ECTS Learning Outcomes
Exercises and tasks_ Submission 25% 0 0 1, 2, 3, 7, 5, 6, 8, 9, 10, 4, 11
Final test 25% 2 0.08 1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 8, 9, 10, 11
Written and oral formative evaluation tests 25% 5 0.2 1, 2, 3, 7, 5, 6, 8, 9, 10, 4, 11
practical activities proposed in class and active participation in class 25% 0 0 1, 2, 3, 7, 5, 6, 8, 9, 4, 11

Bibliography

A. Instruments indispensables

· Une grammaire : Poisson-Quinton, S. et alii (2002), Grammaire expliquée du français, Clé International, Paris.

· Le Petit Robert (dictionnaire unilingue)

· Dictionnaire Larousse Français-Espagnol/Espagnol-Français.

· Bescherelle. La conjugaison pour tous, Hatier, Paris.

· Lasserre, E. (1980), Est-ce « à » ou « de ». I. Répertoire des verbes, adjectifs et locutions se construisant avec une préposition, Payot, Lausanne.

· Poisson-Quinton, S. et alii (2002), Exercices de grammaire expliquée du français (Niveau intermédiaire), Clé International, Paris. Recueil d’exercices de grammaire et d’actes de parole, pour mener à terme la révisionsystématique des microstructures morphosyntaxiques fondamentales de la langue française (cf. Point 3. du programme).

B. Instruments à consulter

B.1. Sur papier

 · Bescherelle. El arte de conjugar en español, Hatier, Paris.

· Cantera Ortiz de Urbina, J. y Gomis Blanco, P. (2007), Diccionario de fraseología española. Locuciones, idiotismos, modismos y frases hechas usuales en español, Abada Editores, Madrid.

· Cantera Ortiz de Urbina, J. y Sevilla Muñoz, J. (2004), Diccionario temático de locuciones francesas con su correspondencia española, Editorial Gredos, S.A., Madrid.

· Chevalier, B. (2004), Lecture et prise de notes. Gestion mentale et acquisition de méthodes de travail. Armand Colin, Paris.

· Colin,J.P. (1983), Dictionnaire des difficultés dufrançais, Col. Les Usuels du Robert, Paris.

· Hanse, J. (1994), Nouveau dictionnaire des difficultés du français moderne, De Boeck-Duculot, Louvain-la-Neuve.

· Moliner, María, Diccionario de uso del español, Gredos.

· Pougeoise, M. (1998), Dictionnaire de grammaire et des difficultés grammaticales, Col. Cursus lettres, A. Colin, Paris.

· RAE (1999), Ortografía de la lengua española, Espasa-Calpe, Madrid.

· RAE (2005), Diccionario panhispánico de dudas, Santillana Ediciones Generales, S.L., Madrid.

· Rey, A. et Chantreau. S. (1985), Dictionnaire des expressions et locutions, Col. Les Usuels du Robert, Paris.

· Salas Parilla, Miguel (1999), Técnicas de estudio para secundaria y universidad, Alianza Editorial, Madrid.

· Seco, M. (1988), Diccionario de dudas y dificultades de la lengua española, Espasa-Calpe, Madrid.

· Serafini Mª Teresa (1989), Cómo redactar un tema. Didáctica de la escritura, Paidós, Barcelona.

· Serafini Mª Teresa (2002), Cómo se escribe, Paidós, Barcelona.

· Strick, R. (1986), Encyclopédie de la conjugaison, Col. Les Usuels du français, Garnier, Paris.

· Quelques grammaires :

- Callamand, M. (1989), Grammaire vivante du français, Larousse, Paris.

- Dubois, J. et Lagane, R. (1973), La nouvelle grammaire du français, Larousse, Paris.

- Grevisse, M. (1986), Le bon usage, Duculot, Paris-Gembloux.

- Riegel, M., Pellat, J.-C. et Rioul, R. (1994), Grammaire méthodique dufrançais, PUF, Paris.

B.2. Via Internet et gratis total

 · http://www.expressio.fr/expressions/un-age-canonique.php

« Expressions françaises décortiquées », c’est le titre transparent et dénotatif de cette page web. On y trouve des explications sur l’origine et la signification de centaines d’expressions lexicalisées françaises.

· http://www.leconjugueur.com/conjugaison/verbe/envoyer.html

Il s’agit d’un Bescherelle virtuel, amélioré et enrichi. En effet, outre la conjugaison des verbes français, on y trouve des synonymes du verbe conjugué, les sens du verbe en question, les emplois du verbe et les tournures où l’on peut le trouver. Par ailleurs, cette page offre une grammaire concernant le verbe (modes, voix, temps, etc.),  une section sur l’orthographe et la ponctuation, des exercices et un traducteur.

Web multilingue : on y trouve les mêmes contenus  à propos de l’espagnol (« El conjugador ») et de l’anglais (« The conjugator »).

· http://www.tv5.org/

TV5 Monde, c’est une chaîne de TV  au service de l’enseignement-apprentissage de la langue française. Voici le menu de l’accueil de cette page :  Programmes, Revoir nos émissions, <ahref="http://www.tv5.org/cms/chaine-francophone/info/p-1908-Accueil.htm">Informations, Météo, Langue française, Dictionnaire, Musique, Sports, Sciences, Cultures du monde, Afrique, Terriennes, Cinéma, Théâtre,  Jeux et divertissements, WebTV,  Documentaire, Blogosphère, TiVi5, Enseignerle français, Apprendre le français, Voyageurs, Lettres d'information,  Widgets et flux RSS, TV5MONDE

· http://yo.mundivia.es/jcnieto/gramar/gramaire.htm

· “Apuntes de gramática francesa para hispanohablantes”, c’est le titre de cette page. Les explications sont en espagnol. En outre, on a accès à 8 sites différentes, qui proposent des exercices variés sur les divers aspects de la langue.

· On y trouve, par ailleurs, des exercices de grammaires et de phonétique ; des dictionnaires en ligne (unilingues et bilingues) ; et des conjugueurs.

· http://users.skynet.be/fralica/explicat/sommaire.htm

FRALICA: site produit en Belgique francophone par Philippe van Goethem. On peut y dénicher de nombreuses ressources concernant la communication, la lecture et l’écriture en français. Il s’agit d’un site qui concerne tout à fait l’enseignement et l’apprentissage qu’on doit assurer dans notre UE « Usage de la langue française écrite ».

Deux citations, mises en exergue in page « home » de ce site annoncent les objectifs de l’auteur : "On apprend beaucoup plus en agissant, en résolvant des problèmes, en rédigeant des textes, enpréparant des exposés qu'en assistant à des cours" (M.-D. Pierrelée). « Il vaut mieux savoir tout chercher que chercher à tout savoir » (P. Mendelson).

 · http://www.linternaute.com/dictionnaire/fr/

L’internaute : dictionnaire en ligne (définitions, synonymes, emplois), citations, expressions-locutions, encyclopédie (Histoire, Musique, Inventions, Noms de famille, Noms propres, Pratique, Prénoms, Proverbes, Villes) magazines par thèmes (Actualité, Argent, Automobile, Bricolage, Cinéma, Consommation, Cuisine, Femmes, Guides d'achat, Guide des plages, High-tech, Insolite, Internet, Juniors, Livres, Mer et Voile, Musique, Nantes, Nature, Paris, Photo numérique, Restaurant, Santé, Savoir, Science, Sport, Télévision, Vidéo, Voyage, Week-end.

 · http://www.crisco.unicaen.fr/cgi-bin/cherches.cgi

Là, on trouve le dictionnaire du Centre National de Ressources Textuelles et Lexicales (CNRTL) (Laboratoire CRISCO de l’université de Caen) : morphologie, lexicographie, étymologie, synonymie, antonymie, proxémie et concordance.

 · http://www.larousse.fr/encyclopedie

Dans ce site, on peut consulter 21 dictionnaires : l’un d’eux, unilingue, pour le français (synonymes, antonymes, expressions, citations et conjugueur) ; les autres bilingues (français/anglais/espagnol/allemand/italien/arabe/chinois). En outre, on a une encyclopédie en ligne, un traducteur, des archives de journaux et unesection cuisine.