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
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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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