Professional Business French Language and Communication I.
- Credits: 6
- Ending: Examination
- Range: 4C
- Semester: winter
- Year: 2
- Faculty of Applied Languages
Teachers
Included in study programs
Teaching results
Knowledge:
- acquisition of theoretical knowledge of the characteristics and basic features of the French professional language.
- the student can characterise and identify the basic features of professional language in a text and knows the principles of the production of professional economic texts in theoretical and practical terms.
Competences:
- know the basic principles of the functioning of professional language,
- the student can use receptive and productive language skills at the required level,
- understands longer speeches and conversations; understands longer professional texts with a complex structure; can express himself/herself adequately on general and professional topics and formulate ideas and attitudes clearly,
- in writing, can produce clear, well-organized, and detailed text on complex professional economic topics, demonstrating mastery of compositional techniques, connective expressions, and means of cohesion,
- use flexibly and effectively the acquired linguistic knowledge, which is essential for the student's successful application in practice, for professional purposes.
Skills:
- apply the acquired skills in working with professional texts, e.g. seminar papers, final thesis, case studies,
- apply appropriate linguistic strategies related to the production of professional texts (use of appropriate lexical, stylistic, morphosyntactic devices) in the target language,
- acquiring the ability to consciously distinguish appropriate from inappropriate linguistic devices in professional economic communication (colloquial expressions, syntactically incomplete sentences, imprecise, ambivalent expressions, etc.).
Indicative content
- Job search, career plan, candidate motivation
- Interview, employment contract
- Telephone interview and mail communication in the company
- Interpretation of quantitative and qualitative results of the company/market etc.
- Resolving work conflicts
- Presentation of product/services to convince the client
Support literature
Required:
1. HOLLE, Alexandre, DIOGO, Amandine, MAUSSIRE, Meryl , GRIMAUD, Manon, LAURET, Bertrand. Édito Pro B1. Paris: Didier, 2020. 240 pp. ISBN 978-2-278-09627-5.
2. KADDANI, Sara, MASPOLI-ELACHECHE, Hélène, THIERION, Marie, VIVIER-MERLE, Joëlle, LAURET, Bertrand. Édito Pro B1, cahier d’activités. Paris: Didier, 2021. 144 pp. ISBN 9782278096312.
3. PENFORNIS, Jean-Luc. Vocabulaire progressif du français des affaires avec 200 exercices. Niveau intermédiaire. 2e édition. Paris: Cle international, 2016. 175 p.
Optional:
1. CLOOSE, Evelyne. Le français du monde du travail.4e édition. Grenoble : Presses Universitaires de Grenoble, 2012. 174 pp. ISBN 978-2-7061-1739-8.
2. OTTENBACHER, Nabila., MARTIN, Nathalie. Entraînement intensif au DFP B1 – Français des affaires. St Ehrard: Autoria-Verlag, 2017. 224 pp. ISBN 9783033057777.
3. PENFORNIS, Jean-Luc. Communication progressive du français des affaires – Niveau intermédiaire (A2-B1). Paris : Cle international, 2019. 160 pp. ISBN 978-2-09-038225-9.
4. PENFORNIS, Jean-Luc. Grammaire progressive du français des affaires – Niveau intermédiaire (A2-B1). Paris : Cle international, 2019. 190 pp. ISBN 978-2-09-038068-2.
Requirements to complete the course
Interim evaluation: 30%
Final evaluation: 70%
Student workload
Full-time study: 156 hours. Of which:
52 hours – attendance at seminars
32 hours – preparation for seminars and for the interim evaluation
72 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: 19.05.2022