French for Academic Purposes
- Credits: 4
- Ending: Examination
- Range: 2C
- Semester: winter
- Year: 3
- Faculty of Applied Languages
Teachers
Included in study programs
Teaching results
Knowledge:
- Acquisition of theoretical knowledge about the characteristics and basic features of the German
academic language. The student is able to characterize and identify the basic features of academic
language in specific texts at the level of language levels (morphological, syntactic, lexicological,
stylistic, text-linguistic) and masters the principles of creating academic texts,
Competence:
- Acquisition of the ability to apply time management in the process of creating an academic text,
gaining the competence to distinguish and evaluate the complexity of the phases of creating an
academic text (preparation for writing an academic text, writing itself, control phase),
- competence to formulate the goal of scientific work (research),
- gaining an overview of possible methods of scientific research and gaining competence in the
suitability of their use in the elaboration of a specific topic,
- gaining an overview of the structure of basic types of academic texts in the source and target
language and gaining the competence to distinguish possible intercultural differences, etc.
Skills:
- Acquisition of skills to draft selected types of academic texts with emphasis on those with which
he is confronted during his studies (e.g. seminar paper, final thesis, written assignments),
- acquisition of skills to apply appropriate language strategies related to the creation of academic
texts (use of appropriate lexical, stylistic, morphosyntactic means) in the target language,
gaining the ability to consciously distinguish appropriate from inappropriate language means
(colloquial expressions, syntactically incomplete sentences, inaccurate, ambivalent expressions,
etc.)
Indicative content
- Characteristics of academic language
- Principles of creating academic texts, guided writing models, expanding academic vocabulary, dealing with unfamiliar vocabulary, writing techniques (rephrasing, summarizing, etc.)
- Developing skills required for academic research, including developing a thesis, acknowledging sources, etc.
- Frequent morphosyntactic language phenomena in academic texts
- Developing techniques for speaking in an academic setting (argumentation, expressing opinions, giving and supporting opinions, giving presentations, taking part in academic discussions, interviewing, etc.)
Support literature
Required:
1. BRETON, Philippe. L´Argumentation dans la communication. Paris: La Découverte, 2006.
121 s. ISBN 978-2-7071-4795-0.
2. RIZEKOVÁ, Iveta. La communication scientifique en milieu universitaire. Bratislava: Vydavateľstvo Ekonóm, 2018. ISBN 978-80-225-4546-4.
3. STOEAN, Carmen Stefania. Le Français sur objectifs universitaires en milieu universitaire non-francophone. In: Synergie monde. ISSN 1951-6908, Nº 8 (1), 2011, p. 191-198.
Optional:
1. Comment argumenter en français face à un auditoire. 2019. Dostupné na internete:
2. DUBOST, Matthieu - PETIPOISSON, Agnès. Synthèse et dissertation. Paris: Ellipses Edition Marketing, 2012. 234 p. ISBN 978-2-7298-7154-3.
3. Méthodologie de la recherche scientifique. Friedrich Ebert Stiftung. Dostupné na internete:
THYRION, Francine. La disssertation. Du lieu commun au texte de réflexion personnelle. Louvain-la-Neuve: Duculot, 1996. ISBN 2-8011-1137-6.
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: 09.02.2023
Date of the latest change: 12.05.2024