Unit convenor and teaching staff |
Unit convenor and teaching staff
Convenor & Lecturer
Benedicte Andre
Contact via Email
B742, Level 7 25 Wally’s Walk
By appointment (see iLearn)
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Credit points |
Credit points
10
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Prerequisites |
Prerequisites
FREN1220
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Corequisites |
Corequisites
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Co-badged status |
Co-badged status
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Unit description |
Unit description
This unit aims to enable students to become independent users of the French language. It seeks to develop students' skills in reading, writing, comprehension and speaking in French at an advanced level and provides students with an opportunity to study French culture extensively. The unit aims to bring students' language skills to B2 level in the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFRL). |
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On successful completion of this unit, you will be able to:
Late submission penalty
Unless a Special Consideration request has been submitted and approved, a 5% penalty (of the total possible mark) will be applied each day to late submissions, up until the 7th calendar day (including weekends). After the 7th day, a mark of ‘0’ (zero) will be awarded even if the assessment is submitted. Submission time for all written assessments is set at 11.55pm. A 1-hour grace period is provided to students who experience a technical issue.
Important to note:
Name | Weighting | Hurdle | Due |
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Written production | 30% | No | 13/04/2025 |
Oral presentation | 30% | No | 11/05/2025 |
Poster Presentation | 40% | No | Week 13 |
Assessment Type 1: LOTE written composition
Indicative Time on Task 2: 20 hours
Due: 13/04/2025
Weighting: 30%
Students will submit a written production relating to the presence of the French language around the world.
Assessment Type 1: Media presentation
Indicative Time on Task 2: 20 hours
Due: 11/05/2025
Weighting: 30%
Students will engage with the genre of autobiography by presenting the point of view of an art work of their choice from the French-speaking world.
Assessment Type 1: Poster
Indicative Time on Task 2: 30 hours
Due: Week 13
Weighting: 40%
Students will develop and present a project on a selected topic.
1 If you need help with your assignment, please contact:
2 Indicative time-on-task is an estimate of the time required for completion of the assessment task and is subject to individual variation
Recommended text:
Intext Book Company is an Australian website that stocks a large range of educational books in French - https://www.languageint.com.au/.
3 x 1-hour Zoom workshops will be organised for the FLX cohort throughout the session:
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Assessments - Language quizzes have been removed
Level B2 represents a new level as far above B1 (Threshold) as A2 (Waystage) is below it. It is intended to reflect the Vantage Level specification. The metaphor is that, having been progressing slowly but steadily across the intermediate plateau, the learner finds they have arrived somewhere, things look different, they acquire a new perspective, can look around them in a new way. The B2 level represents quite a break with the content so far with an extended focus on effective argument: they can account for, and sustain their opinions in discussion by providing relevant explanations, arguments and comments; explain a viewpoint on a topical issue giving the advantages and disadvantages of various options; construct a chain of reasoned argument; develop an argument giving reasons in support of, or against a particular point of view; explain a problem and make it clear that their counterpart in a negotiation must make a concession; speculate about causes, consequences, hypothetical situations; take an active part in informal discussion in familiar contexts, commenting, putting point of view clearly, evaluating alternative proposals and making and responding to hypotheses.
Running right through the level B2 there are two new focuses:
In all, it is a new threshold for a language learner to cross.
Unit information based on version 2025.03 of the Handbook