Traditional grammar, reading and writing course with emphasis primarily on these areas, but with some attention to speaking using authentic pronunciation. Class work is individual as well as group-oriented and consists of exercises, answering questions, and reading aloud. Students acquire the vocabulary and grammatical structures necessary to communicate and comprehend at the high beginner to low intermediate level. Three hours lecture and one hour lab per week.
Speaking:
Upon completion of the course students should be able to communicate learned utterances and occasionally expanding these through simple recombination of their elements. Students show signs of spontaneity although fall short of real autonomy of expression and they ask questions or make statements involving learned material.
Listening:
Upon completion of the course students should be able communicate, understanding some sentence-length utterances. Students comprehend some words and phrases from simple questions, statements, high frequency commands and courtesy formulae. This process sometimes requires repetition and rephrasing due to slow rate of speech comprehension.
Reading:
Upon completion of the course students should be able communicate, identifying an increasing number of words, understanding some single phrases at the time and interpreting written language in areas of practical needs.
Writing:
Upon completion of the course students should be able to communicate simple expressions. Students recombine learned vocabulary and structures into simple sentences on very familiar topics.
Required Student Learning Outcomes:
Upon successful completion of the course, students will:
- Engage in conversations using level-appropriate grammatical structures including narrating events that take place in the past.
- Demonstrate understanding of level-appropriate spoken Spanish produced by French speakers of diverse origins.
- Write simple to moderately complex sentences using level-appropriate grammatical structures and organize them into cohesive paragraphs.
- Read and comprehend level-appropriate authentic texts.
- Identify and discuss traditions, customs and values of the French world.
- Compare and contrast the traditions, customs and values of the French word with characteristics of their own culture.
Text Book + Audio CD
Amon, Evelyne, Judith Muyskens, Alice C. Omaggio Hadley. Vis-aVis: Beginning French, 6th ed., McGraw-Hill, 2014
Activity Manual
Branon, Monique, Myrna Bell Rochester, Hedgige Meyer-Patricia Westphal. Vis-à-vis: Beginning French Student Activity Manual, 6th ed., McGraw-Hill, 2014.
At the beginning of the semester, instructors will provide each student with a course syllabus and outline of the course which includes departmental requirements and the specific requirements of the individual instructor. The grade for the course is weighted as follows:
30% 3 Written exams (10% each)
20% Quizzes
20% Participation=Attendance
10% Oral proficiency exam
20% Final Written exam
ADA Statement:
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