Duration
30h Th
Number of credits
Lecturer
Language(s) of instruction
French language
Organisation and examination
Teaching in the first semester, review in January
Schedule
Units courses prerequisite and corequisite
Prerequisite or corequisite units are presented within each program
Learning unit contents
The course systematically presents concepts of grammatical analysis and apply them to the French language by the means, a.o., of tree-like diagrams.
Learning outcomes of the learning unit
At the end of the course, students will have the following abilities:
- ability to analyse any French sentence that is not especially problematic using grammatical analysis;
- ability to express such an analysis by means of a text or conventional diagrams;
- knowledge of the main structural issues in the description of French.
- identify and justify the grammatical classes of words (also referred to as "parts of speech"; e.g., noun, verb, preposition, etc.);
- analyze and justify the dependency relations among words within a syntactic construction (also referred to as "functions"; e.g., subject, direct object, modifier, apposition, etc.), as well as the hierarchy of these dependency relations ("this word depends on that one");
- in the specific case of coordination, identify and justify the groupings of terms that depend on the same governing element (or conversely), as well as instances of ellipsis;
- in the specific case of subordination, identify the type of subordinate clause involved (e.g., completive, relative, correlative).
Prerequisite knowledge and skills
Very good command of French (C1), including spelling, grammatical accuracy, morphosyntactic correctness, textual coherence (use of connectors and pronouns), and stylistic appropriateness of expression.
Planned learning activities and teaching methods
Magistral teaching and discussions.
Additional practical sessions with a tutor.
Mode of delivery (face to face, distance learning, hybrid learning)
Face-to-face course
Further information:
The course is given in Q1, face to face (subject to change according to the health situation), 10-12AM, Salle Grand Physique.
First lecture: Wednesday 17/09.
Course materials and recommended or required readings
Syllabus available on ecampus.
Exam(s) in session
Any session
- In-person
written exam ( multiple-choice questionnaire, open-ended questions )
Further information:
Written examination.
Linguistic proficiency is also evaluated. Insufficient proficiency in French (prerequisite) will result automatically result in a grade lower than 8/20.
Unless specifically authorized (ESH), students are only allowed to make use of a paper non-encyclopedic dictionnary during the examinations; they cannot benefit from any other external help. The use of smartphones, connected watches and similar connected items is strictly forbidden. Consequently, the use of AI tools is also strictly forbidden.
Work placement(s)
Organisational remarks and main changes to the course
Contacts
Teacher:Nicolas Mazziotta Phone: 04 366 53 82 Email: nicolas.mazziotta@uliege.be