Exercises in French Morphology

Teachers

Included in study programs

Teaching results

Knowledge:
- Acquiring the knowledge of the morphological structure of the French language.
- Acquiring the knowledge of the typological specificities of the language with the focus on its morphological aspect.
- Acquiring the knowledge of parts of speech and their lexical-grammatical categories.
Competences:
- Acquiring the competence in identifying specific parts of speech and their grammatical categories in selected texts in the target language.
- Acquiring the competence to distinguish between basic and specific (problematic) phenomena related to parts of speech and their grammatical categories.
- Acquiring the competence to be aware of the different phenomena within parts of speech and grammatical categories between the source and target languages, resulting from the typological and genealogical specificities of the two languages.
Skills:
- Acquiring the skill to actively apply theoretical knowledge of parts of speech in the target language.
- Acquiring the skills in implementing theoretical knowledge about parts of speech in one’s own speech (oral and written).
- Acquiring active skills in implementing the basic grammatical rules and problematic phenomena of parts of speech when working with texts.
- Acquiring the skill to identify the differences in the application of a set of grammatical rules in the source and the target language.

Indicative content

- Noun: lexical-grammatical characteristics, typology, categories, exceptions.
- Adjective: lexical-grammatical characteristics, typology, categories, exceptions.
- Pronouns: lexical-grammatical characteristics, typology, categories, exceptions.
- Verb: lexical-grammatical characteristics, typology, categories, exceptions.
- Verb: paradigms of the present tense, the formation of past tenses and future tenses.
- Verb: paradigms of the subjunctive.
- Adverbs.
- Prepositions and conjunctions.

Support literature

Required:
1. AKYÜZ, A., BAZELLE-SHAHMAEI, B., et al.: Exercices de grammaire B1. Paris: Hachette FLE, 2019. ISBN 9782014016345
2. AKYÜZ, A., BAZELLE-SHAHMAEI, B., et al.: Exercices de grammaire B2. Paris: Hachette FLE, 2019. ISBN 9782014016352
Optional:
1. GOOSE, A., GREVISSE, M.: Le bon usage. Louvain-La-Neuve: De Boeck Supérieur, 2016.
ISBN 9782807300699

Requirements to complete the course

Interim evaluation: 40 %
Final evaluation: 60 %

Student workload

Full-time study: 104 hours. Of which:
26 hours – attendance at seminars
30 hours – preparation for seminars and for the interim evaluation
48 hours – preparation for the final exam

Language whose command is required to complete the course

French

Date of approval: 08.03.2024

Date of the latest change: 06.05.2022