French I

The course aims at deepening the knowledge of some aspects of the contemporary French language, focusing on the oral language and on problems connected to the transposition from spoken French to its written form. The transposition issue will be therefore analysed from a geopolitical and sociolinguistic perspective. The objective for students, at the end of the course, is to reach a C1/C2 level (the latter at a written and listening level) of the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages).

The expertise acquired at a final stage of the course is the comprehension of the language variation in French (diatopic, diastratic, diphasic variation) at a written and listening level together with the ability of interacting in written and speaking French at a C1 level.