French grammar for teachers 4100-1SGFDNO

The subject covers education in the field of language knowledge, with particular emphasis on the role of French language grammar in fulfilling its communicative function.

Course Objectives:

Discourse functions of individual language forms at the sentence and discourse level from a glottodidactic perspective, in terms of teaching/learning a foreign language.
Language teaching methods, with special emphasis on the inductive method and task-based approach.
Linking teaching methods to contemporary theories in the field of foreign language acquisition.
Developing students' language awareness through performing tasks of a mediative nature, using various forms of work.
Utilizing a contrastive approach within integrated glottodidactics.

Topics of the classes:

1. Sentence elements and their functions.
2. Nouns and their determiners: indefinite, definite, and partitive articles. Quantitative expressions.
3. Possessive, demonstrative, interrogative, and indefinite adjectives.
4. Possessive, demonstrative, interrogative, and indefinite pronouns.
5. Cardinal and ordinal numbers.
6. Adjectives: forms, degrees, position in a sentence.
7. Personal pronouns as direct and indirect objects.
8. Adverbial pronouns (en, y) as complements.
9. Simple relative pronouns.
10. Interrogative sentences.
11. Imperative and negative sentences.
12. Prepositions of place.
13. Classification of verbs and conjugation of personal forms.
14. The present tense, the futur simple vs the futur proche, the passé composé vs the imparfait.
15. Adverbs: forms and position in a sentence.

Term 2023Z:

None

Term 2024Z:

The subject covers education in the field of language knowledge, with particular emphasis on the role of French language grammar in fulfilling its communicative function.

Course Objectives:

Topics of the classes:

1. Sentence elements and their functions.
2. Nouns and their determiners: indefinite, definite, and partitive articles. Quantitative expressions.
3. Possessive, demonstrative, interrogative, and indefinite adjectives.
4. Possessive, demonstrative, interrogative, and indefinite pronouns.
5. Cardinal and ordinal numbers.
6. Adjectives: forms, degrees, position in a sentence.
7. Personal pronouns as direct and indirect objects.
8. Adverbial pronouns (en, y) as complements.
9. Simple relative pronouns.
10. Interrogative sentences.
11. Negative sentences.
12. Prepositions of place.
13. Classification of verbs and conjugation of personal forms.
14. The present tense, the futur simple vs the futur proche, the passé composé vs the imparfait.
15. Adverbs: forms and position in a sentence.

Course coordinators

Maja Nasielska

Type of course

General:

foreign languages
obligatory courses

Term 2023Z:

obligatory courses

Term 2024Z:

foreign languages
obligatory courses

Mode

Classroom

Prerequisites (description)

The classes aim to develop students' linguistic awareness regarding the knowledge of language functions and forms, as well as the influence of linguistic theories on teaching foreign language grammar.

Learning outcomes

Knowledge: The graduate knows and understands:
S_W01
advanced facts, processes, phenomena in the field of French grammar, relevant to the teaching of foreign languages oriented towards practical applications in teaching foreign languages in preschool, primary, and secondary education.
S_W02
necessary terminology in the field of French grammar, appropriate for teaching foreign languages.
S_W16
significantly, the processes of interpersonal and social communication in Polish and French, their regularities, and disruptions.

Skills: The graduate can:
S_U01
search, analyze, evaluate, select, and use information using various sources and methods in Polish and French.
S_U02
independently plan and implement typical projects related to teaching foreign languages in preschool, school, and other educational institutions teaching foreign languages.
S_U03
diagnose the needs, capabilities, and abilities of each student and design and implement individualized education and training programs.
S_U09
analyze their own actions and identify areas requiring changes in future activities.
S_U19
using basic organizational skills, plan and implement tasks related to teaching foreign languages, optionally teaching the subject of social studies.

Social competences: The graduate is ready to:
S_K01
engage in lifelong learning.
S_K02
reflect on the level of their knowledge and skills, engage in continuous professional development and personal growth, self-assess their competencies, and improve their skills, setting directions for their own development and education.

Assessment criteria

The basis for passing the classes is:

a) Attendance. The student is allowed to have 2 unexcused absences.
b) Active participation in classes
c) Completion of homework assignments
d) Partial tests covering specific sections of the material (minimum 60%)
e) Comprehensive final test covering the entire material (minimum 60%).

Single-day medical exemptions will not be considered as justification for absence during assessments.

Practical placement

Not applicable

Bibliography

Grammaires
1. Delatour, Y., et alli. 2004, Nouvelle grammaire du français. Cours de civilisation française de la Sorbonne, Paris: Hachette
2. De Salins, G., 1996, Grammaire pour l’enseignement/apprentissage du FLE, Paris: Didier/Hatier
3. Poisson-Quinton S. Et all. 2002. Grammaire expliquée du français. Paris. Clé International.
4. Di Giura, M. et all. 2015. Grammaire contrastive for English speakers. A1/A2. Clé International.
5. Przestaszewski L., Rudawska J., Gramatyka francuska dla każdego, 2005

Exercices
1. Akyüz A., et alli, 2006, Les 500 exercices de grammaire, Paris : Hachette FLE
Niveaux : A1, A2, B1
2. Akyüz A., et alli, 2019, Exercices de grammaire. En contexte. Paris : Hachette FLE Niveaux : A1, A2, B1
3. Glaud L., Lannier M., Loiseau Y. 2015. Grammaire essentielle du français A1/A2. Paris. Didier.
4. Glaud L., Loiseau Y., Merlet E. 2015. Grammaire essentielle du français B1. Paris. Didier.

Term 2023Z:

None

Term 2024Z: