French I and Mediation

The course aims to introduce the main characteristics of the French language from a theoretical and applied perspective. The monographic course will provide students (beginners, intermediate and advanced) with the basic phonetic and phonological, morphosyntactic and lexical skills for communication, drafting and producing short text in French. In addition to grammatical, morphosyntactic and lexical knowledge (level B1), the course aims to develop critical listening, reading, comprehension and oral production skills and skills in the field of intralinguistic mediation (thanks to simplification and reformulation activities) and interlinguistic (through translation of simple texts).

At the end of the course, students will have to reach a competence not lower than the B1 of the European Framework (European Framework of Reference) which requires a good mastery of linguistic skills (reading, writing, listening and speaking). Furthermore they will be able to present the contents of the course in French, to analyze the lexical and syntactic aspects of simple texts and to apply some mediation strategies