Università Roma Tre

The program is divided into three parts. A first theoretical part will illustrate, in a diachronic key, the morphosyntactic foundations of modern French and some essential phases in the evolution of the French language. A second part will focus on institutional relations between France and the French-speaking world, with particular attention paid to the question of language in the French-speaking South (Africa, the Caribbean and Pacific region). Finally, a third part will focus on the linguistic and discursive analysis of enunciation in the transnational context and will be carried out on a selection of authentic texts indicated in the program and available on Moodle. All texts studied in class will be part of the exam.
There will also be language exercises at CLA for the refinement of written and oral language skills, through workshops and multimedia tools to develop communicative skills according to different learning styles. Since these exercises are an integral part of the training program and aim at obtaining B1 certification, a prerequisite for the exam, students and undergraduates are invited to perfect their position by acquiring in advance the calendar of lessons and the dates of the tests administered at the CLA to pass the language tests.

Textbook on the history of language (chapters indicated required):
1) Lise Gauvin, "La fabrique de la langue. De François Rabelais à Réjean Ducharme", Paris, Seuil, 2004, ch. I, III, VII, VIII (pocket edition or downloadable chapters on Moodle).

Required texts (in any format):
2) Thomas Sankara/Jean Zigler, "Discours sur la dette", Bruxelles, L’Esprit du Temps, coll. Quoi de neuf ?, 2017 (or any other edition).
3) Fatou Diome, "Marianne porte plainte!", Paris, Flammarion, 2017 (also available in Ebook).

Required critical readings and essays (downloadable on Moodle):
4) Frantz Fanon, "Peau noire, masques blancs", Paris, Seuil, 1952 (ch. 1: "Le Noir et le langage", pp. 13-32) (downloadable on Moodle).
5) François Provenzano, ch. 2 : "Qu’est-ce que la francodoxie?" (pp. 55-70) et ch. 4 : "Explorations périphériques" (pp. 93-135) in "Vies et mort de la francophonie. Une politique française de la langue et de la littérature", Bruxelles, Les impressions nouvelles, coll. Réflexions faites, 2011 (downloadable on Moodle).
6) Ruth Amossy, "La présentation de soi. Ethos et identité verbale", Paris, PUF, 2010 (downloadable chapters on Moodle).

Grammar textbooks recommended for practicing language skills (not in the exam schedule):
1) Michèle Boulares, Jean-Louis Frerot, “Grammaire progressive du français” (niveau avancé), Paris, Clé International, 2012.
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2) Dominique Berger, Anne Charlotte Signoret, Nerina Spicacci, “Savoir-dire, savoir-faire” (niveaux B1/B2), Zanichelli 2008.
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3) Françoise Bidaud, Marie-Christine Grange, “Manuel de français intermédiaire. Corso di lingua francese (B1/B1+)”, Hoepli, 2017 (mp3 and "corrigés" are downloadable on official website).