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Professional Communication in French (CEFR B1)37828/4572/2021/1/70
Study guide

Professional Communication in French (CEFR B1)

37828/4572/2021/1/70
Academic year 2020-21
Is found in:
  • International Curriculum Business, Retail and Languages, programme stage 1
This is a single course unit.
Study load: 3 credits
Weight: 3,00
Total study time: 75,00 hours
It is not possible to enrol in this course unit under
  • exam contract (to obtain a credit).
  • exam contract (to obtain a degree).
Special admission is required to enrol in this course unit under credit contract.
Co-ordinator: Bogaert Sabine
Languages: French
Scheduled for: Semester 1

Final objectives

As an ambassador of the health care organization, and a connector in the health care organization, communicate in a service-oriented and medically correct manner in an intercultural, international and multidisciplinary context in Dutch, French and English with internal and external stakeholders with various profiles. (Dutch: CEFR level C2 / English: receptive skills CEFR level C1, productive skills level B2 / French: receptive skills CEFR level C1, productive skills level B2)

Objectives

  • Use the productive and receptive language skills purposefully in a general and professional context in French at the CEFR B1 level.
  • Integrate the basic principles of email and social media policy purposefully and independently in his or her professional communication in French.
  • Take care of medical communication regarding asking for information (purchase/sales) in French.
  • Describe and apply language structures correctly in French.

Contents

  • In function of correct manners, email, social media policy and medical communication:
    • Language skills: reading, listening, writing, interaction in a context of care and a medical context
    • With attention for grammar, vocabulary, style, spelling
  • Email and social media policy
  • Business letters and emails:
    • Give and get information (written)
    • Quotations
    • Orders (context of medical products: instruments, medicines, medical representative)
    • Vocabulary: achat, vente, demande, offre, commande; formules d'introduction, de politesse, expressions propres au développement et à la conclusion d'écrits professionnels.
    • Grammar: la demande polie, le conditionnel, les connecteurs et articulateurs logiques (+emploi des modes), le gérondif, le participe présent, l'adj/adv., l'expression d'un point de vue, d'un souhait, d'une préférence, d'une nécessité + emploi des modes, l'accord adjectif /participe passé
    • Self study: le système de conjugaison, les pronoms simples
  • Basic insight in language structures (basic knowledge sentence structures and lexical categories), apply grammar and vocabulary in business context correctly (oral and written).
    • Grammar: la demande polie, le conditionnel, les connecteurs et articulateurs logiques + emploi des modes, le gérondif, le participe présent, adj/adv, l'expression d'une appréciation, d'un point de vue, d'un souhait, d'une préférence, d'une nécessité + emploi des modes, l'accord (adj. particpe passé)
    • Self study: le système de conjugaison, les pronoms simples.

Organisation of education

Contactonderwijs24,00 hours

Teaching methods

  • Learning dialogue
  • Practice session
    Additional information: Guided exercises
  • Online learning

Evaluation

Evaluation(s) for first exam chance
MomentForm%Remark
Inside Regular exam scheduleWritten examination70,00
Outside exam scheduleWritten examination30,00
Evaluation(s) for re-sit exam
MomentForm%Remark
Inside Regular exam scheduleWritten examination100,00
This course unit is marked out of 20 (rounded to an integer).
Re-sit exam: is possible.

Study materials

1. Mandatory books
Mandatory
  • Author: Cornu e.a
  • Publisher: Garant
  • Edition: édition révisée
  • ISBN-nr: 978-90-441-3626-5
Mandatory
  • Author: Christiane Descotes-Genon, Marie-Hélène Morsel, Claude Richo
  • Edition: 2018-2019
  • ISBN-nr: 978-27-061-2982-7
Mandatory
  • Author: Didier-Hatier
  • Publisher: Hatier Paris
  • Edition: nieuwste uitgave
  • ISBN-nr: 978-22-189-4997-5
Mandatory
  • Author: Explio
  • Edition: Recent
  • ISBN-nr: 978-10-901-4236-8
Mandatory
  • Author: Isabelle Werbrouck
  • Edition: recente editie
  • ISBN-nr: 978-94-629-2706-3
Mandatory
  • Author: Michelle Fayet
  • Publisher: Eyrolles
  • Edition: jul/15
  • ISBN-nr: 978-22-125-6182-1
Possible deadlines for learning account: 01.12.2020 ()