Unit information: Beginners French for Visiting Students in 2019/20

Unit name	Beginners French for Visiting Students
Unit code	UWLP10032
Credit points	10
Level of study	C/4
Teaching block(s)	Teaching Block 1 (weeks 1 - 12)
Unit director	Mrs. Vailes
Open unit status	Not open
Pre-requisites	None
Co-requisites	None
School/department	School of Modern Languages
Faculty	Faculty of Arts

Description including Unit Aims

This unit is only available to study abroad students

This unit provides a general introduction to the target language. It is intended:

• To provide students with a foundation of the essential structures of the target language, enabling them to communicate using familiar everyday expressions and very basic phrases aimed at the satisfaction of needs of a concrete type
• To enable participants to give and understand information and to achieve an elementary level of communicative competence in interacting in a simple way with speakers of that language
• To introduce students to the customs, culture and society of the countries in which the language is spoken and to develop student awareness of the general social and cultural background of the language

Intended Learning Outcomes

Students will:

1. be able to communicate orally and in writing at a basic level with a degree of accuracy and fluency.

2. be able to work at a simple level with authentic material and retrieve necessary information.

3. have acquired knowledge and awareness of the general social and cultural background of the target language

4. be able to understand and interpret simple written texts at a basic level

5. be able to respond to simple written texts at a basic level

Overall, students will attain a level comparable to A1 of the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages.

Teaching Information

3 weekly hours. The communicative approach will be used; learners will be involved in a variety of interactive and stimulating activities with maximum use of the target language. This will be supported by e learning opportunities; a Blackboard site, wikis, blogs and use of self-study facilities.

Assessment Information

Assessment Details

As free text:

The four skills (listening, speaking, reading and writing) are assigned equal weighting for the purposes of assessment (25% each).

For reading and writing there is a class test at the end of TB1, which comprises 50% of the total mark. This assesses ILOs 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5.

Listening is assessed by a class test at the end of TB1, which comprises 25% of the total mark. This assesses ILOs 1, 2 and 3.

Speaking is tested by one oral test at the end of TB1. This assesses ILOs 1, 2 and 3.

Reading and References

The unit is based on a coherent scheme of work developed by the unit coordinator, which will be made available on Blackboard