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French (FREN) 402
Pensée et structure de l'anglais et du français

This version of FREN 402 closed. To current version.

Delivery mode: Individualized study.

Credits: 3 - Reading course - Humanities

Prerequisite: FREN 401

Centre: Centre for Language and Literature

FREN 402 is not available for challenge

Overview

Ce cours permettra à l'étudiant(e) de faire une étude comparative du français et de l'anglais. Il/elle fera l'étude des moyens dont on dispose pour passer d'une langue à l'autre, en particulier d'une pensée anglaise à une expression bien française.

This course offers a comparative study of French and English. Its main focus is the translation of English language structures into idiomatic French.

Outline

Unité 1: Entités/Elements of language

Unité 2: Espaces et Temps/Time and space

Unité 3: Problèmes de structure/Problems of structure

Unité 4: Structure et modalité/Structure and form

Unité 5: Notions de sémantique/Semantics

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Evaluation

To receive credit for FREN 402, you must achieve a course composite grade of at least “D” (50 percent) and a grade of at least 50 percent on the final examination. The weighting of the course assignments is as follows:

4 Assignments (10% each) Final Exam Total
40% 60% 100%

To learn more about assignments and examinations, please refer to Athabasca University's online Calendar.

Course Materials

Textbook

J. L. Darbelnet. 1977. Pensée et structure, Deuxième édition. New York: Charles Scribner and Sons.

J. L. Darbelnet. 1977. Pensée et structure, Deuxième édition, Cahier d'exercices. New York: Charles Scribner and Sons.

Other materials

The course materials also include three study guides and a student manual.

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