UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE

DEPARTMENT OF FOREIGN LANGUAGES AND LITERATURES

FRENCH 106 - STUDENT SYLLABUS

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For the complete syllabus go to:   http://www.udel.edu/fllt/faculty/dcdugard/coursecalendar106.html

REQUIRED MATERIALS
-Thompson, C.P. & Phillips, E.M. (2011). Mais Oui! (5th edition). Boston: Houghton Mifflin.
-Thompson, C.P. & Phillips, E.M. (2011).  Mais Oui! Student Activities Manual (5th edition).  Boston: Houghton Mifflin.

REQUIRED RESOURCES

-http://www.udel.edu/fllt/flwc - The Foreign Language Writing Assistance Program is a free resource offered to students to help them to improve writing skills in French.  Students should go to the web site listed above to schedule an appointment.

OTHER RESOURCES

-http://college.cengage.com/languages/french/thompson/maisoui/4e/student_home.html  (for practice ace tests and "improve your grade" exercises)

- http://www.fllt.udel.edu/lang/french/french106.html- French 106 syllabus and links

- http://www.fllt.udel.edu – Click on “Study Abroad” for information on study abroad opportunities in Caen, Martinique, Paris and Quebec.

- http://fr.yahoo.com and www.tv5.org –for news, music videos, film, etc.

Students  must have taken French 105 or three years of French in High School.  All exceptions require the approval of the Placement Advisor.

COURSE GOALS:

Students who successfully complete this course will be able to:

-comprehend basic and main ideas in spoken discourse, comprehend specific ideas communicated by a speaker on everyday concrete topics and some common abstract topics at a normal rate of speech;

-understand more complex but non-technical French, learn the meaning of new words by inferring from the context;

-pronounce French at the sentence level, the eventual goal is to produce short paragraphs with sufficient accuracy to be understood by a native speaker used to dealing with non-native speakers;

-communicate effectively in survival situations by negotiating for meaning with other speakers of French, begin to create with the language, initiate interactions;

-create in class (without a dictionary) and outside of class short texts of sufficient clarity to be understood by a sympathetic native speaker;

-comprehend authentic texts in French by making hypotheses about the content, using different (decoding) strategies to understand texts, identifying functions of text, making inferences;

-demonstrate knowledge of and appreciation for everyday Francophone culture and culturally conditioned behavioral patterns.