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CATALOG INFORMATION
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Discipline and Nbr:
FREN 58 | Title:
HIGH INTER. CONVER. |
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Full Title:
High Intermediate Conversation: Contemporary Issues |
Last Reviewed:1/30/2012 |
Units | Course Hours per Week | | Nbr of Weeks | Course Hours Total |
Maximum | 2.00 | Lecture Scheduled | 2.00 | 17.5 max. | Lecture Scheduled | 35.00 |
Minimum | 2.00 | Lab Scheduled | 0 | 17.5 min. | Lab Scheduled | 0 |
| Contact DHR | 0 | | Contact DHR | 0 |
| Contact Total | 2.00 | | Contact Total | 35.00 |
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| Non-contact DHR | 0 | | Non-contact DHR Total | 0 |
| Total Out of Class Hours: 70.00 | Total Student Learning Hours: 105.00 | |
Title 5 Category:
AA Degree Applicable
Grading:
Grade or P/NP
Repeatability:
34 - 4 Enrollments Total
Also Listed As:
Formerly:
Catalog Description:
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Active oral performance in idiomatic, practical, and grammatically correct language on contemporary issues, with some preparatory reading and writing.
Prerequisites/Corequisites:
Recommended Preparation:
Completion of FREN 2 or FREN 50B with a grade of 'C' or better.
Limits on Enrollment:
Schedule of Classes Information
Description:
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Active oral performance in idiomatic, practical, and grammatically correct language on contemporary issues, with some preparatory reading and writing.
(Grade or P/NP)
Prerequisites:
Recommended:Completion of FREN 2 or FREN 50B with a grade of 'C' or better.
Limits on Enrollment:
Transfer Credit:CSU;
Repeatability:34 - 4 Enrollments Total
ARTICULATION, MAJOR, and CERTIFICATION INFORMATION
Associate Degree: | Effective: | | Inactive: | |
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CSU GE: | Transfer Area | | Effective: | Inactive: |
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IGETC: | Transfer Area | | Effective: | Inactive: |
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CSU Transfer: | Transferable | Effective: | Fall 1981 | Inactive: | Fall 2020 |
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UC Transfer: | | Effective: | | Inactive: | |
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Certificate/Major Applicable:
Not Certificate/Major Applicable
COURSE CONTENT
Outcomes and Objectives:
At the conclusion of this course, the student should be able to:
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LISTENING - The students will:
1. Understand majority of conversational speech including many common
idioms and phrasal verbs.
2. Distinguish between main ideas and supporting details relating to
everyday topics.
3. Understand some abstract topics when presented in a familiar context.
4. Understand descriptions and narrations of factual material and
non-technical prose.
5. Discuss cultural and contemporary issues.
6. Understand the use of register.
7. Infer meaning from context.
8. Acquire new vocabulary from context.
9. Pronunciation: understand most common reduced forms, inflectional
endings and stress and intonation patterns in statements and
questions.
SPEAKING - The students will:
1. Narrate and describe in present, past, and future time.
2. Use simple argument and persuasion.
3. Participate in casual conversations using many common idioms.
4. Give instructions and informational reports.
5. Use French for warning, refusing, complaining, assistance.
6. Express feelings such as humor, happiness, sadness, anger, gratitude,
and affection.
7. Use discussion strategies: getting and holding the floor, changing
and returning to the topic, and reaching consensus.
8. Pronunciation: produce most common reduced forms and inflectional
endings, correctly use most intonation patterns and word stress,
self-monitor for pronunciation and oral grammar, and demonstrate
an understanding of register.
Topics and Scope
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The topics and scope of this course vary slightly from semester to
semester due to the selection of various conversation texts and/or
materials.
LISTENING & SPEAKING:
1. Conversations: taped, telephone and face to face.
2. One way communication: directions, narratives, academic lectures,
descriptions, radio and television broadcasts, announcements,
instructions.
3. Content widens to include additional social and academic topics:
current events, media, politics, cultural and moral issues, history,
health, medicine, general science, economics, education, leisure,
domestic and world issues, life, death and afterlife, love and hate,
male and female roles, geography, demography and technology, humor,
literature and the arts, the world market, drugs and dependency,
belief and ideologies, jobs and professions, law and free will.
TASKS- LISTENING:
1. Comprehension checks.
2. Dictation: variations such as cloze.
3. Listen to taped and live lectures, radio, television and films.
4. Clue searching, graphic fill-ins.
5. Paraphrasing, summarizing, and note taking.
6. Selective listening.
7. Story rebuilding and party line, logical continuation.
8. Inferential listening.
9. Identifying sociolinguistic factors.
10. Information gap.
11. Conduct a questionnaire or poll in or out of the classroom.
TASKS- SPEAKING:
1. Generate appropriate questions and responses.
2. Paired interviews.
3. Conduct survey and report to class.
4. Dialogues, story telling and completion, chain stories, picture
stories.
5. Individual responses to an assigned topic.
6. Give a descriptive or process speech.
7. Give a short formal report supported with research.
8. Oral response to small group discussions.
9. Pose questions and respond appropriately to speakers.
10. Spontaneous and prepared debates.
11. Situations with complications.
12. Role plays.
Assignments:
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Note the following represent typical assignments for a French 58 course:
1. Interviews with native speakers of French outside of class.
2. Rhythm and intonation practice with songs and poetry.
3. Small group discussions based on lectures, films, and readings.
4. Role plays on work-related situations.
5. Videotapes of student written and produced skits and dialogues.
Methods of Evaluation/Basis of Grade.
Writing: Assessment tools that demonstrate writing skill and/or require students to select, organize and explain ideas in writing. | Writing 5 - 45% |
Written homework, Reading reports, Lab reports, Essay exams, Term papers | |
Problem solving: Assessment tools, other than exams, that demonstrate competence in computational or non-computational problem solving skills. | Problem Solving 0 - 0% |
None | |
Skill Demonstrations: All skill-based and physical demonstrations used for assessment purposes including skill performance exams. | Skill Demonstrations 30 - 50% |
Class performances | |
Exams: All forms of formal testing, other than skill performance exams. | Exams 20 - 35% |
Multiple choice, True/false, Matching items, Completion | |
Other: Includes any assessment tools that do not logically fit into the above categories. | Other Category 5 - 10% |
COMPLETION OF SEMESTER'S LANGUAGE LAB HOURS | |
Representative Textbooks and Materials:
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Text material consists of current, photocopied articles, themes, and
grammar supplements.
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