UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE

DEPARTMENT OF FOREIGN LANGUAGES AND LITERATURES

FRENCH 106 - STUDENT SYLLABUS

MWF Instructor: ____________________	TR Instructor:  _________________________
Office phone:        ____________________	Office phone:    _________________________
Office address:     ____________________	Office address: _________________________
Office hours:        ____________________	Office hours:     _________________________
E-mail:                  ____________________	E-mail:                  ____________________

REQUIRED MATERIALS:

Thompson, C.P. & Phillips, E.M. (2004). Mais Oui! (3rd edition).

 Boston: Houghton Mifflin.

Thompson, C.P. & Phillips, E.M. (2004). Mais Oui! Quia on-line Workbook

(3rd edition). Boston: Houghton Mifflin.

Thompson, C.P. & Phillips, E.M. (2004) Mais Oui! Audio CD or Cassette (3rd edition).

 Boston: Houghton Mifflin.

OTHER RESOURCES:

Thompson, C.P. & Phillips, E.M. (2004). Mais Oui! Multimedia CD-ROM (3rd edition).

 Boston: Houghton Mifflin

Mais Oui! Web Site - http://college.hmco.com/languages/french/thompson/maisoui/3e/students/index.html

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.