FRENCH LANGUAGE

Academic Year 2024/2025 - Teacher: ENRICO SPADARO

Expected Learning Outcomes

Knowledge and understanding:

The aim of this course is the acquisition of solid linguistic, communicative, and metalinguistic knowledge and competencies according to B1 level of the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages. Students will be able to understand complex and specialized texts (about concrete and abstract topics) and to catch their cultural (implicit) aspects. Furthermore, they will "refine" their analysis skills and their translation practices knowledge by discovering and exploring a domain linked to the langues de spécialité (ESP): tourism.

Applying knowledge and understanding:

Students will acquire some deep knowledge about French syntax and vocabulary in order to communicate in an appropriate, coherent, and efficient way. Conceptual fluency will represent the most important purpose of this course. Furthermore, students will be able to use and combine knowledge in an interdisciplinary perspective for a professional application in a particular context of langues de spécialité translation (tourism) coping with the problems related to linguistic interactions and exchanges.

Making judgements:

Students will be able to formulate independent judgements, to approach and “to explore", in a flexible and critical way, texts related to the tourism field. They will be confident with the context of français professionnel du tourisme.

Communication skills:

The course will allow students to acquire the main tools to communicate and interact in an appropriate, complex, and articulated way in social, professional and working contexts linked to tourism.

Learning skills:

Students will be able to implement useful cognitive strategies to improve and "handle" their learning and study method and to use their skills in professional activities.

Course Structure

The teaching methods proposed will mainly be those of integrated didactics with participative lessons and cooperative activities to stimulate motivation, confrontation and active participation; face-to-face lessons will mainly concern the systematisation and metalinguistic reflection phases

Required Prerequisites

No prerequisite is expected.

Lectures are oper to everyone

Attendance of Lessons

Attendance at general and lecture course lectures is strongly recommended.

Detailed Course Content

The course includes the analysis of authentic or didactic documents and activities on general communicative functions inherent to the tourism sector (prendre contact; accueillir; renseigner; promouvoir un site; réserver, vendre, annuler un produit touristique; le courriel); linguistic reflection on morpho-syntactic structures (genre, nombre et place du nom et de l'adjectif; adjectis et pronoms possessifs, demonstratifs et personnels simples et doubles; pronoms relatifs; l'interrogation, la négation, la comparaison; indicatif présent, passé composé, imparafait; futur; condictionnel; subjonctif présent; quelques emplois des modes et des temps; gallicismes; forme passive connecteurs spatio-temporels) ; description of the main types of tourism and professional categories. The in-depth course includes activities on the presentation of places of interest and monuments, in order to initiate the students in the realisation of a personal tourist presentation to be presented in the examination.

Textbook Information

S. Poisson-Quinton, R. Mimran, M. Mahéo-Le Coadic, Grammaire expliquée du français. Niveau intermédiaire. CLE International, 2007. (Manuel et Exercices).

A.M. Crimi, Itinéraires PLUS, Manuel de français pour les professions touristiques. Gruppo Editoriale Eli, 2023.

F. Bidaud, Nouvelle grammaire du français pour italophones, Torino, UTET, 2015 (o nuova edizione); AA. VV., Les 500 exercices de grammaire, Niveau B1, Paris, Hachette, 2008 (scaricabile online).

R. Cavallaro, Dictionnaire Insolite de la Sicile, Cosmopole, 2017.

Handout provided by the lecturer

Author	Title	Publisher	Year	ISBN
S. Poisson-Quinton, R. Mimran, M. Mahéo-Le Coadic	Grammaire expliquée du français. Niveau intermédiaire	CLE International	2007	978-2-09-033703-7
A.M. Crimi	Itinéraires PLUS, Manuel de français pour les professions touristiques	Gruppo Editoriale Eli	2023	978-88-536-4105-2
R. Cavallaro	Dictionnaire Insolite de la Sicile	Cosmopole	2017	978-782846-301206

Learning Assessment

Learning Assessment Procedures

The examination consists of a written test and an oral test. The two tests are held on the same day, unless, exceptionally, there is an excessive number of bookings. Successful completion of the written test determines admission to the oral test. The written test includes: a written comprehension; grammar exercises of transformation and completion; written production on tourist services (requesting an internship, booking tourist services, proposals for visits). The oral test includes: the presentation of a personal production of a tourist type, presentation of localities, circuits, monuments, of the territory; assessment of the acquisition of the skills and contents foreseen in the syllabus; presentation of the geographical and cultural aspects of a French locality, dealt with during the lectures.

Examples of frequently asked questions and / or exercises

Written test: Text comprehension questions, closed and open; transformation exercises e.g. Transform to the interrogative form with inversion Les touristes ont visité l'église, e.g. Transform to the passive form Les romains ont construit le temple; completion exercises e.g. Complete with the indicated verbal tense Ils (passé composé faire)..............le tour de la ville; Write a booking e-mail based on the given elements (destination, date, stopover, company).

Oral test: Exposition of a tourist presentation prepared by the candidate. Sample questions on the programme: Quels sont les types de tourisme?; Quelles sont les qualités que doit posseder un guide/animateur?; Faites une annonce de départ à partir des éléments du panneau d'information; Quelles sont les villes les plus touristiques de la France?

Degree Course in

Tourism Science