FR 0255 - SPEAKING FRENCH: ATELIER D’EXPRESSION ORALE

Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
As an oral skills course, French 0255 approaches speaking French in real life contexts. Focus is on speech acts. Students will learn how to present, narrate, describe, and speak French in various registers (from very informal to very formal) and with tact. We will continue to work on vocabulary building and grammatical mastery so that students are able to use French as needed to carry out various daily, professional and personal functions. Some examples of the speech acts we will learn to execute include: how to present oneself and one’s peers, how to describe in detail people, places and things, how to narrate in the present, past and future, how to express and support points of views. These various speech acts will serve a larger framework of real life scenarios students may encounter later on in their studies or careers, for example when interviewing for a job, when interviewing others for a job, when speaking in front of a group, when speaking with colleagues, when running a meeting, when providing consulting services. The study and practice of spoken French is thus concentrated on the social turn and use in context. This course is taught entirely in French. Recommended prerequisite: FR 0004 or 0104 or 0021/0221 or 0027/0227 or 0056/0256.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Attributes: West European Studies

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