Key words
French, IWETO code H360 (foreign language learning) and H460 (French language and literature)
Objectives
- Develop oral and written communicative skills using business correspondence and telephone dialogues
- Extend professional vocabulary
- Apply the French language system further
- Apply the command of French on the contents of specific transport courses
Topics
- French oral and written communication (correspondence and telephone calls)
- Revision and extension of transport terminology
- Exploring and exercising grammar items and languages structures (prepared in guided self-study sessions)
Prerequisites
Final competencies of Professional French I
Final Objectives
Knowledge:
General:
Job-related:- Oral and written command of French in professional contexts
- Command of logistics terminolgy
Skills:
General:- Ability for project work
- Self-study
- Consulting sources
General and job-related:- Making information available and sharing it (multi-language communication)
- Correct French communication, both orally and in writing
Job-related:- Negotiating in French with shippers, middlemen and suppliers
- Communicating with internal and external customers
- Informing and advising customers in French on transport and logistics
- Completing national and international shipments operationally and commercially
- Expressing oneself in French both orally and in writing
Attitudes:
General:- Willingness to communicate with customers and co-workers
- Commercial vision, empathy, persuasiveness and awareness of quality in contacts with customers
- Handling conflicts
Materials used
Syllabus and the grammar book bought for the first year
Study costs
Photocopies in syllabus at the current Hogeschool Gent rate
Study guidance
The lecturer may be consulted orally, by e-mail or on Dokeos; there will e feedback about continuous assessment and after the examination
Teaching Methods
Guided self-study, lectures, seminars for class exercises, group work, exercises (individually or in a group), project work, exercise program (software), cross-course case, independent work
Assessment
- First exam session:40% continuous assessment and 60% written exam
- Second exam session:40% oral and 60% written exam
Students registered for the examinations only:- First exam session: 40% oral and 60% written exam
- Second exam session 40% oral and 60% written exam
Lecturer(s)
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