FRENCH LANGUAGE I

Università degli Studi
"G. d'Annunzio"

Chieti - Pescara

Single discipline educational activity

Course Sheet

Course code:

L0007

Academic Year of enrolment:

2021

Year of supply:

2021/2022

Type of Course:

Basic

Degree:

Course of 1st Cycle Degree in LINGUISTIC MEDIATION AND INTERCULTURAL COMMUNICATION

Disciplinary Sector:

French Language and Translation

Location:

PESCARA

Credits:

Programme Year:

Professor and Collaborators:

MARTINELLI Lorella

LAMBERTINI VINCENZO

Cycle:

Single Annual Cycle

Hours of classroom activity:

Individual study hours:

180

Prerequisites:

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Objectives

In line with the educational objectives of the degree course in Foreign Languages and Literatures and in Linguistic Mediation and Intercultural Communication, the course aims to provide the basis for recognising and successfully tackling the obstacles posed by the French language for Italian-speaking learners. In addition, the course aims at introducing metalinguistic and grammatical as well as communicative concepts in order not only to acquire a contrastive approach to language learning, but also to develop skills in the linguistic analysis of short texts of an advertising and political nature in French and in phraseological analysis;

RESULTS OF APPROACH ATTENTION: This course aims to provide theoretical-methodological tools for linguistic analysis from a contrastive (Italian-French) and idiomatic point of view, as well as tools useful in the field of communication in French and which will serve as a basis for translation and interpretation between French and Italian;

KNOWLEDGE AND CAPACITY OF COMPREHENSION: knowledge of the basic differences between Italian and French in order to anticipate and solve the specific problems posed by the Italian-French language pair; ability to understand advertising and political texts with phraseological and sentential phenomena and ability to understand the linguistic and communicative functioning of these phenomena;

ABILITY TO APPLY KNOWLEDGE AND COMPREHENSION: analysing the language in contrastive and phraseological terms;
AUTONOMY OF JUDGMENT: to reflect on the differences between Italian and French in order to implement strategies that will be fundamental in the field of translation and interpreting; to recognise and identify phraseological phenomena in order to understand how they function in written texts (especially advertising) and oral discourse (political discourse);

COMMUNICATION ABILITIES: being able to analyse the language from a logical-grammatical and contrastive point of view, acquiring concepts and metalinguistic terms capable of explaining the main differences between Italian and French; being able to correctly explain the functioning of phraseological phenomena in advertising and politics; being able to express correctly in daily communicative situations in French.

Contents

This course consists of two parts. The first aims to achieve a twofold objective: on the one hand, being able to analyse, in a contrastive way (French-Italian), the fundamental structures of French, paying particular attention to the difficulties for Italian-speaking learners; on the other hand, putting these analytical skills into practice in order to improve self-learning skills in FLE (Français Langue Étrangère) and to keep up with the evolution of the language. The second part is aimed at analysing, understanding, recognising and categorising the fixed structures of the language and the main phraseological and paremiological phenomena, with particular reference to ordinary discourse, advertising language and political discourse in French and Italian.

Extended Syllabus

Le système adverbale e et l’expression du temps; l’emploi des modes et des temps; le passif et les verbes pronominaux
La concordance du temps:
-Dans la construction complétive
Dans la construction interrogative indirecte
Dans la construction avec “Si” exprimant la condition de l’hypothèse
Dans les autres propositions.
Le propositions subordonnées:
Conjonction de subordination et emploi des mode
-La proposition conjonctive essentielle
-La proposition relative
-La proposition adverbiale:
-De temps, de cause, de manière, de conséquence, de but, de concession, de condition, la préposition relative, la proposition interrogative indirecte.
La conjonction:
Les conjonctions de coordination, les conjonctions de subordination.
Traduzione attiva e passiva di testi di diversa tipologia (Italiano-Francese, Francese-Italiano).

Recommended Bibliography

F. Bidaud, Grammaire du français pour italophones, Torino, Utet, 2020.
Merger, M.F., Sini, L., Côte à côte : préparation à la traduction de l'italien au français, Firenze, La Nuova Italia, 1995. Michèle PERRET, Introduction à l’histoire de la langue française, Paris, SEDES (Campus) [ultima edizione]. I capitoli da studiare verranno indicati nel corso delle lezioni.
Ad integrazione :
Henriette WALTER, Le français dans tous les sens, edizione tascabile.
Further materials and bibliographical indications will be provided during the course.
ADVISED DICTIONARIES:
Le petit Robert, Paris, Le Robert.

Teaching Methods

The course is delivered in the form of lectures with printed, audiovisual and multimedia materials. Theoretical lectures will be followed by lessons of a more seminar-like nature in which exercises, corrections and discussions of previously assigned tasks will be carried out. Students are strongly recommended to attend the lessons in order to consolidate the acquired contents.
The course will be supplemented by lessons and exercises held by a language expert.

Evaluation methods

Verification of learning:

The student must pass a written and an oral examination:
Written test: grammatical-contrastive test aimed at verifying the acquisition of the contents discussed in the course; translation of sentences from Italian into French.
For the translation of the sentences, the use of any dictionary is strictly forbidden.

Oral examination: Evaluation in thirtieths:
The following will be the subject of the interview:
-discussion of the written test;
-discussion on linguistics of proverbs and idiomatic expressions;
-discussion on advertising and political language.

During the year, written tests are planned.

Contacts/More Information

Further information or clarifications may be requested from the teacher during the reception hours. The course is complemented by exercises and other activities in support of teaching (in the classroom, language laboratories or distance) organized by the Language Centre of the University. Dates and times of receptions are available on the Department's page.

Università degli Studi
"G. d'Annunzio"

Chieti - Pescara

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