French IV: Honours Language I

This subject is intended primarily to foster students' writing skills, with a particular focus on academic writing. Students will analyse a range of academic texts and learn to identify and use the rhetorical features inherent to French academic discourses. In each text they will identify features of large-scale organisation, stylistic and rhetorical procedures and unfamiliar lexical items. They will also acquire an in-depth understanding of appropriate use of connectors and other rhetorical devices to (1) achieve meaning in a complex argumentative texts and (2) present and develop their own arguments in a clear, coherent and convincing fashion in both oral and written forms. Aspects of French grammar will be explored in context as difficulties occur. Although students undertaking thesis writing in French will find this subject particularly useful, students interested in the advanced mastery of French in both oral and written forms will find this subject rewarding.

荣誉学位法语课程的第一部分，提升高级语言技能。

• 1Communicate to a high level, operating at different levels of linguistic formality, depending on the situation
• 2Adopt native-like patterns of speech with enhanced pronounciation
• 3Engage with French academic writing and be able to analyse texts of various length
• 4Use a wide range of vocabulary related to themes and genres studied in class
• 5Analyse and use complex grammatical and discourse structures at sentence and text level.