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Browse Programs Admission InformationBy the end of the third year (the final year) of the Bachelor's degree in French Language, students will have acquired fundamental skills and knowledge in language, literature, civilisation and the teaching of the French language. This is the year in which students hone their knowledge of the various linguistic tools and literary and didactic approaches applied to the French language. Although this knowledge is still seen as an introduction to the methods and fields used by these three disciplines (linguistics, literature and didactics), the main aim of the third year is to develop the student's ability to develop scientific reasoning (observations - hypotheses - verification) about an object - the French language - associated with grammatical, linguistic, literary, didactic and civilisational studies. The Bachelor's degree, which is spread over three years, leads to an academic Master's and a Doctorate in two specialities: Language Sciences and Literature and Civilisation.
Alongside subjects such as linguistics, literature and didactics, one of the strong points of the third year is the consolidation of one of the subjects that runs through the entire degree cycle, namely oral expression and comprehension. Oral comprehension and expression, or oral production, is a sender-receiver relationship accompanied by oral production in a given communication context. It's a teaching subject that involves working on sounds, rhythm and intonation, and the aim is for students to familiarise themselves with these different methods and gradually make them their own. All oral expression begins with ideas in the form of information, various opinions or feelings, with objectives depending on the student's expectations, role and aspirations. The subject is organised in the form of workshops in which the student is first invited to listen to an audio document, to understand it, before being led to produce another one himself, either individually or by exchanging ideas with his classmates. The student is expected to understand that the oral message, which is immediate, produces effects on the listener, acts on the listener's right to take up ideas; everything is accompanied by the gestures, gaze, mimicry and voice of the speaker. Oral expression can therefore encompass non-verbal elements (in the form of gestures, signs, smiles, various gestural expressions adapted to the communication situation), the voice (volume, articulation of sounds, rate of voice or intonation to ensure that the communication is made expressively), pauses, silences, glances (to check the level of understanding of the verbal message).Oral expression means conveying messages using language, using your voice and body to communicate.
The third year is also distinguished by its grounding in applied linguistics research: it opens students up to two fields that are both interdisciplinary and cross-disciplinary: translation and specialised languages (language industries). The languages on which students can work are mainly English, French and Arabic.
For these two subjects, the aim is to develop research in the multi-disciplinary field of corpus linguistics, specialised translation, terminology and specialised languages. The aim is also to broaden relations with other disciplines, drawing on the multidisciplinary nature of the training on offer in general, in order to help students refine their knowledge and research in all areas related to the French language.
Students move on to the third year once they have validated the subjects and/or credits from the first and second years, either fully or partially (debt transfer).