French grammar for teachers 4100-3SGFDNO
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.
Scope of topics:
1. Passive voice of verbs.
2. Emphatic and impersonal constructions.
3. Plus-que-parfait vs passé composé and imparfait.
4. Subjunctive mood.
5. Conditional present and conditional past.
6. Compound coordinated sentences, both with and without conjunctions.
7. Parenthetical sentences.
8. Subordinate clauses of time.
9. Infinitive clauses (l’infinitif présent and passé).
10. Subordinate clauses of cause.
11. Gérondif and adjectif verbal.
12. Subordinate clauses of purpose.
13. Subordinate clauses of permission.
14. Subordinate clauses of condition.
15. Direct and indirect speech.
Prerequisites (description)
Course coordinators
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Type of course
Term 2025Z: foreign languages obligatory courses | General: obligatory courses | Term 2024Z: obligatory courses foreign languages |
Requirements
Mode
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
- Rules for passing the course
The condition for passing the course is attendance at classes
(two absences in the whole semester are permissible) and timely completion of all partial tasks to be completed both during the stationary classes and on the e-learning platform.
The final grade is determined on the basis of the results obtained from the adopted assessment methods and criteria, according to the given weights.
The use of AI tools and technologies supporting language processing is
allowed only with the consent of the instructor and with prior approval of the scope of their use.
The use of such tools without the consent of the instructor and prior agreement will be treated as a violation of the rules of independence - resulting in the work being considered non-dependent and a failing grade.
- Assessment methods:
1.Set of teaching exercises: (50%) - a set of grammatical correctness exercises for level A1-A2 prepared by the student with answer key and short methodological commentary (S_W01, S_W02, S_W16, S-U02, S_U03, S_U09, S_U19, S_K01, S_K02).
2. Grammar test (50%) - a test checking the knowledge of grammatical issues discussed in class and the ability to analyse them (S_W01, S_W02, S_U01).
Assessment criteria and their weighting:
- Set of didactic exercises (50 points):
- compliance with educational level and core curriculum: 10 pts
- Relevance of exercises and their methodological justification: 10 pts
- Clarity and linguistic correctness of the developed exercises, including the correctness of the solutions proposed in the answer key: 20 points
- Accuracy of the discussion in the methodological commentary 10 points
- Grammar test (50 points):
- grammatical correctness of answers and range of knowledge
- Grading scale (with pass mark) :
60% -68%- grade sufficient
69%-76%- grade sufficient plus
77%-84%- grade good
85%-92%- good plus
93%- 100%- very good
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 2024Z:
Grammaires Exercices |
Term 2025Z:
Grammaires Exercices |
Notes
Term 2025Z:
None |
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