Undergraduate Course: Foundation French Language 1 (ELCF07012)
Course Outline
| School | School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures |
College | College of Humanities and Social Science |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 7 (Year 1 Undergraduate) |
Availability | Available to all students |
| SCQF Credits | 20 |
ECTS Credits | 10 |
| Summary | A course for beginners with no previous knowledge of French, designed to give absolute beginners a basic, working knowledge of spoken and written French. The course is not suitable for students with previous knowledge of French.
All students take all elements of assessment, including the examination |
| Course description |
The following list is a description of the contents of the course.
Along with each topic and function, relevant vocabulary, grammatical and textual structures will be introduced.
1) Information about self and others
2)Countries and nationalities
3)Talking about work and family
4)Describing your daily routine
5)Shops and shopping
6)How you spend your free time
7)Ordering in bars and restaurants
8)Booking in a hotel room
9)Describing one's house
10)Asking and giving directions
11)Describing people and what they wear
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Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
| Pre-requisites |
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Co-requisites | |
| Prohibited Combinations | Students MUST NOT also be taking
Foundation French Language 1 (ELCF07011)
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Other requirements | None |
| Additional Costs | A course book
A bilingual dictionary |
Information for Visiting Students
| Pre-requisites | Entry is subject to a language test by the relevant subject area on arrival and at the discretion of the course organiser.
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Course Delivery Information
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| Academic year 2014/15, Available to all students (SV1)
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Quota: 65 |
| Course Start |
Semester 2 |
Timetable |
Timetable |
| Learning and Teaching activities (Further Info) |
Total Hours:
200
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Lecture Hours 20,
Supervised Practical/Workshop/Studio Hours 20,
Formative Assessment Hours 1,
Summative Assessment Hours 2,
Programme Level Learning and Teaching Hours 4,
Directed Learning and Independent Learning Hours
153 )
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| Assessment (Further Info) |
Written Exam
50 %,
Coursework
30 %,
Practical Exam
20 %
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| Additional Information (Assessment) |
Coursework 50% (such as homework, class tests)
Degree exam 50% (A two-hour written paper)
All students take all elements of assessment, including the examination. |
| Feedback |
Not entered |
| Exam Information |
| Exam Diet |
Paper Name |
Hours & Minutes |
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| Main Exam Diet S2 (April/May) | Foundation French Language 1 | 2:00 | | | Resit Exam Diet (August) | Foundation French Language 1 | 2:00 | |
Learning Outcomes
| At the end of the course learners who performed successfully will be able to communicate at an elementary level (A1/1+) in the target language in situations of daily routine. Students will develop basic reading, writing, listening and speaking skills. They will acquire knowledge of basic grammatical structures and a vocabulary of approximately 500 high-frequency words and phrases. This should be expected to allow the oral and written production of simple phrases, and to understand short passages where the context is clear and identified.
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Reading List
As this is a course for beginners, there is no reading list as such.
Students will be told in good time about the text book which will be used in the course. Simple texts will be issued as appropriate. |
Additional Information
| Course URL |
http://www.llc.ed.ac.uk/open-languages |
| Graduate Attributes and Skills |
The students will be encouraged to develop positive study-habits which will be of use to them in other disciplines, particularly in the further development of French but also in the acquisition of other new languages. Where relevant, students will be able to continue their study of French in any other University at CEFR level A1+.
The students will acquire the following transferable skills in each element of the course:
a) Writing
The students will learn how to be accurate with unfamiliar orthography and this will teach them the value of care and precision.
b) Listening and Reading
The students will learn how to extract essential information from a body of unfamiliar written or spoken language, even though there might not be total comprehension. The students will develop the skill of using known material in these language sources to make appropriate deductions and informed guesses about the meaning of material that is new to them.
c) Speaking
The students will develop the ability to progress from learned formulaic responses towards a more spontaneous generation of language.
The development of this creativity is one of the most important elements of language learning.
d) General
In addition to the specific skills mentioned in a) to c), students will learn the skills of using a dictionary intelligently, learning vocabulary systematically, and understanding the rules - and exceptions - of grammar. |
| Special Arrangements |
This course is open to all students as a credit bearing course, or over and above their full credit load, as a non credit bearing course. DELC students may only take this course if it is over and above their full credit load, as a non credit bearing course. |
| Additional Class Delivery Information |
Students must attend pairs of classes. See Web Timetable 2014/2015.
Please note: this course will not appear on students' personalised timetable. Group Sign-up sheets will be available on LEARN after the first class meeting. Groups have a limited quota, if a group reaches capacity, you will need to choose another.
The teaching classes will start in the second week of the semester.
Students joining the course after the first class meeting with timetable restrictions on which group they can join must contact the course secretary before enrolling to confirm availability in the required group.
Please note that it is not possible to audit this course. |
| Keywords | OLFFREN1SEM2 |
Contacts
| Course organiser | Mrs Sylvie-Marie Slater
Tel: (0131 6)50 8421
Email: Sylvie.Slater@ed.ac.uk |
Course secretary | Miss Helene Thomsen
Tel: (0131 6)50 6949
Email: Helene.Thomsen@ed.ac.uk |
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