FRE 3305: Conversation Engagee (2023-2024)

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This course will build students’ oral proficiency skills for various communicative tasks necessary for interacting in modern French and francophone communities: debates, presentations, job interviews, discussions, reporting, requesting services, offering directions and giving advice, among others. Students will have a guided review of French grammar along with the presentation of advanced grammar to enhance their effectiveness in oral communication. Students will gain proficiency in French phonetics as well as achieving more accurate pronunciation and intonation. Students will be assessed via required weekly oral role-play activities, oral presentations, video recordings of their speaking, weekly grammar quizzes, an oral final and a written grammatical final. Critical to meeting the above objectives, students will learn to communicate in culturally appropriate manner depending upon the francophone cultural context. Typically offered: Winter. May be repeated for credit up to 10 credits.