French proficiency I

6 ECTS credits
180 h study time

Offer 2 with catalog number 1002943ANR for all students in the 1st and 2nd semester at a (A) Bachelor - preliminary level.

Semester

1st and 2nd semester

Enrollment based on exam contract

Impossible

Grading method

Grading (scale from 0 to 20)

Can retake in second session

Yes

Enrollment Requirements

Je moet Pratique du français I steeds samen opnemen met Grammaire et linguistique du français: introduction. Als je een verkort programma volgt, kan je dit vak zo opnemen.

Taught in

French

Faculty

Academic Language Centre

Department

Academic Center for Language Education

Educational team

Julie Bertone
Hélène Gygax
Florence Gilbert
Voorzitter ACTO (course titular)

Activities and contact hours

78 contact hours Seminar, Exercises or Practicals
48 contact hours Independent or External Form of Study

Course Content

The French Practice I course is based on an innovative method. It is an action-oriented and immersive course placing diversity and international agility as a key element for learning the French language in our Brussels, European, international and academic context. It is aimed at students following the Languages and Literature program, students in Translation and Interpretation and all other students interested in learning French at CEFR level B2.

The course is designed as a back and forth journey between literature and linguistics, discourse and history, the subjective and the objective, speech and narrative, the event, the lexicon and the syntax. Unlike traditional FLE courses, the courses are also a space for critical reflection and exchange . The Pratique du français I course is an intensive French course with a strong focus on oral and written expression. The system includes both face-to-face and distance learning hours. Cultural activities are planned.

Course material

Digital course material (Required) : via Canvas

Additional info

Course material (CANVAS)

Authentic documents (print and online press, scientific publications/publications from Brussels and European and international civil society.
Literary works with a particular focus on the theme of otherness
FLE manuals and materials with a focus on diversity and interculturality
FLE manuals and materials with a focus on precise and academic vocabulary
FLE manuals and materials with a focus on textual coherence, hermeneutics and linguistics
Blended learning through https://www.projet-voltaire.fr
Face-to-face + blended learning through https://langues.ulb.be/fr/tandems-1
CERL materials and frames developed by the VUB through https://www.univercity.be

Learning Outcomes

General competencies

SKILLS

Communicative language skills

(consistent with the overall objectives of the CEFR Level B2)

- Writing (production, interaction, mediation)

- Oral expression (production, interaction, mediation)

- Listening comprehension (reception and interaction)

- Reading comprehension (reception and interaction)

Academic skills

(in line with higher education decrees)

- Learners systematically adopt a critical and reflexive stance regarding their own thinking and the proposed content.

- Learners are willing to enrich the group experience and critical reflection based on scientific research and their own experiences.

- Learners adopt an attitude of openness and dissemination of knowledge.

Community Engaged Research and Learning skills

(in line with the CERL frameworks developed by VUB-Univer.City)

- Learners adopt a collaborative, multiperspectivist and interdisciplinary stance in a heterogeneous group with multiple identities.

- Learners benefit from interlinguistic experiences, practice decency and valuing the Other.

- Learners practise expression and citizen advocacy for personal and collective impact on social justice and environmental issues.

Grading

The final grade is composed based on the following categories:
Oral Exam determines 50% of the final mark.
Written Exam determines 50% of the final mark.

Within the Oral Exam category, the following assignments need to be completed:

Permanente Evaluatie with a relative weight of 1 which comprises 50% of the final mark.

Within the Written Exam category, the following assignments need to be completed:

Schriftelijk examen with a relative weight of 1 which comprises 50% of the final mark.

Additional info regarding evaluation

The evaluation procedure is based on a partnership between students and their teacher. This will result in the elaboration of an individual and collective pedagogical contract at the beginning of the semester. Exercises and reflection/evolution sessions will be organized. They aim to anchor knowledge, know-how and interpersonal skills in terms of language and communication objectives (reception, production, interaction and mediation + language communicative skills), academic objectives and Community Engaged Research and Learning skills. The skills assessment will be delivered at the end of the course. A description of all the tests will be detailed during the course and through CANVAS. If you obtain an average of 14/20 and + on the permanent assessment, you will be exempted from the June exam. The June exam is 50% oral (portfolio defence with integrated tests) and 50% written (integrated writing test). The second session is 50% oral (oral presentation of the portfolio with integrated tests) and 50% written (integrated writing test).

The detailed evaluation criteria are as follows:

Permanent evaluation:

SEMESTER 1

Oral Expression

- Presentation I (10 points)

Written Expression

- Drafting I: summary/ synthesis (10 points)

Communicative language skills: vocabulary and grammar (20 points)

SEMESTER 2

Oral Expression

- Presentation II (10 points)

- Presentation (public) III (10 points)

Written Expression

- Drafting II: opinion paper/argumentation (10 points)

Communicative language skills: vocabulary and grammar (10 points)

ON ANNUAL BASES

Project Tandem (10 points)

Voltaire Spelling Project (10 points)

Total: 100 points

Allowed unsatisfactory mark

The supplementary Teaching and Examination Regulations of your faculty stipulate whether an allowed unsatisfactory mark for this programme unit is permitted.

Academic context