Contemporary Spoken French / Français parlé contemporain

3.00 credits · Undergraduate

Prereq: FREN 2501; or permission of the Department This course is designed for students at the advanced level who aim to speak French with enhanced clarity, spontaneity and colour and offers a systematic study of phonetic and prosodic features of French. By exposing students to a variety of authentic audio-visual documents from Francophone parts of the world, the course targets the acquisition of vocabulary,the improvement of aural comprehension and the development of communicative strategies through a variety of situations such as conversations, debates,interviews, and presentations. [Note 1: This course is open to students studying French as a second language.] (Format: Lecture/Workshop 3 Hours) (Exclusion: any version of FREN 3131 previously offered with a different title)