French IA
B Dejean and P Anderson
6 points * 5 hours per week * First semester * Clayton * Prerequisites: A pass in VCE French or equivalent
The subject consists of two parts: (i) Language in use and (ii) Reading contemporary France: reconstructions of meaning. (i) Language in use - Advanced practical language acquisition including reading and listening comprehension, and oral and written production through aspects of contemporary French civilisation. Use is made of authentic written, oral and audiovisual materials. Tutorials include regular grammar review and work on grammatical structures with emphasis on fluency. The teaching and communication medium is French. (ii) Reading contemporary France: reconstructions of meaning - This part of the subject aims to provide students with an explicitly informed practice of reading. Prescribed texts are representative of the cultural production of France, across a range of codes, discourses and registers, from the Second World War to the present day. Lectures and tutorials will engage students in understanding and identifying linguistic and genre-specific semiotic structures of texts, and developing these skills through intensive text analysis. Students will gain an understanding of the contexts of the production of the texts. By examining the interaction of text and context, they will question the text as ideological construct and evaluate the ways in which it reproduces or reshapes social systems of production of self, otherness, the world and their histories.
Assessment
Part (i): Continuous assessment of oral participation and production via role-plays and discussions: 20% * Written production via compositions and translations: 15% * Final listening comprehension test: 5% * Final written exam including grammar exercises, translation and composition: 20% * Part (ii): Guided textual analysis: 10% * Essay: 15% * Tutorial work: 5% * Final test: 10%
Prescribed texts
Camus A L'étranger Folio
French at Monash French section, Monash U
Gibert P and others Bonne route 2 - leçons 1 à 28 Alliance Française-Hachette
Malle L Au revoir, les enfants L'avant-scène Cinema
Recommended texts
Baker B and others Collage, révision de grammaire Random House
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Batchelor R E and Offord M H Using French Cambridge UP
Collins-Robert French-English English-French dictionary Collins and Société du Nouveau Littré
Judge A and Healey F G A reference grammar of modern French Arnold