Academic Year/course:
2023/24
272 - Degree in Journalism
25358 - Modern languages I (French)
Syllabus Information
Academic year:
2023/24
Subject:
25358 - Modern languages I (French)
Faculty / School:
103 - Facultad de Filosofía y Letras
Degree:
272 - Degree in Journalism
ECTS:
6.0
Year:
2
Semester:
First Four-month period
Subject type:
Basic Education
Module:
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1. General information
The overall goal of this subject is to achieve the student's linguistic competence in the French language.
To do so, they will have to put into practice, in a cross-cutting manner, the knowledge acquired, acquire new linguistic and cultural knowledge , and know how to apply it in various situations. Students are expected to master the French language (B2), developing skills and strategies that will enable them to later face the fields of specialization in which they will perform their profession.
Knowledge of this subject will pay attention to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of the 2030 Agenda of United Nations. The acquisition of the learning results of the subject can contribute to the achievement of: Goal 4: Quality Education.
Goal 5: Gender Equality.
Goal 10: Reduction of Inequalities
Goal 16: Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions
Goal 17: Alliances to Achieve goals.
2. Learning results
The learning results derive directly from the acquisition of the following competencies:
- Be fluent in a modern spoken and written language with fluency and autonomy at a B2 level.
- Understand oral and written texts in the relevant modern language and be able to transmit and respond to them at a level equivalent to B2 (European convergence).
- Write grammatically correct and culturally relevant journalistic articles in the relevant modern language, as well as equivalent activities in non-written.
- Interact with other journalists in the relevant modern language in person or through electronic or digital media at a level equivalent to B2 (European convergence).
3. Syllabus
Review
Adjectives
Pronouns
Verbs
Adverbs
Connectors
Speech told in the present and past tense
Activities:
Description of people, objects, spaces, etc.
Writing an event
Making an exhibition
Participate in a discussion
Writing an argumentative text
Submit a project
Write a letter
Communicative objectives:
Express an opinion
Generate and structure a debate
Telling a story
Express cause, consequence, condition, hypothesis, concession, opposition, etc.
4. Academic activities
By starting from a prior knowledge of the French language of the students,
theoretical explanations will focus mainly on questions of grammatical construction from a practical point of view.
Learning activities
Activities of a collective and individual nature, in which grammatical issues will be addressed, but very especially communication situations in order to achieve the goals set. Among them:
Translation of journalistic texts of various kinds, Writing of articles, short texts, commentaries .... Exercises of reading and comprehension of documents in French. Visualization and commentary of French news programs. Public exhibitions of projects and works.
5. Assessment system
First call
Global assessment.
It consists of five parts:
1) Test with questions corresponding to the grammatical, lexical and discursive contents of the subject (20%).
2) Listening comprehension test (20%).
3) Written comprehension test (20%)
4) Written expression test (20%).
5) Oral test (20% of the final grade) consisting of a monologue and an interaction.
Assessment criteria:
Correctness of answers and knowledge of the linguistic structures studied
Ability to understand the main points of oral and written texts on familiar subjects, whether related to work, study or daily life related to work, study or daily life;
Content (60%): state of the question and definition and relationship between theoretical concepts (20%), application of the methodology (20%), analysis and results derived from the methodological application and synthesis of the conclusions reached (20%).
It is a sine qua non condition to obtain a minimum grade of 4 in each of the tests in order for them to be averaged.
If the subject is not passed due to failure to achieve the minimum required in one or more of the five tests, this will be recorded as a grade for the exam session at : 4 FAIL. If none of them reaches a score equal to 5 out of 10, the numerical value of the grade will be the one resulting from the calculation of the average of the grades obtained.
Second Call
Global evaluation test identical to the first one.