Business Administration and Management

ANTONELLA LEONCINI BARTOLI

The course aims to develop French language skills in professional and business contexts, with a focus on written and oral communication in typical business situations.
By the end of the course, students will be able to:
• understand texts and documents in French related to business and economic activities;
• write emails, business letters, and short reports in French clearly and appropriately;
• interact orally in meetings, presentations, or basic negotiations;
• use essential specialized vocabulary relevant to the French-speaking world of work and business.

The course aims to guide students towards the following objectives set out in the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR)

• understanding written messages B2

• understanding spoken messages B2

• producing spoken messages B1

To access the descriptive content of the skills required for the various levels, please consult the Europass website, available in the various EU languages:

http://europass.cedefop.europa.eu/LanguageSelfAssessmentGrid/fr (French)

http://europass.cedefop.europa.eu/LanguageSelfAssessmentGrid/it (Italian)

The course has the following objectives:

1) to enable students to acquire the skills necessary to communicate in the context of a period of student mobility in a French-speaking country or in concrete work situations in the fields covered by the degree program;

2) to explore aspects of French culture and working environment, including the French-Italian intercultural perspective;

3) to enable students to acquire professional terminology, including through reading the French-language international press and simulate job situations;

4) to develop learning strategies for strengthening language skills, also with a view to continuing to practice the language independently.


EXPECTED LEARNING OUTCOMES

Students who pass the exam will be able to:

• master the most common communicative situations in everyday life and in the professional fields covered by the degree program in French;

• recognise (inter)cultural aspects of the French professional context;

• possess individual learning strategies that enable them to continue studying French for public communication and professional contexts in an independent way.

We suggest an access to the course with level B1 for writing and speaking and level B1/B2 for listening and reading.
On-line self-assessment tests are suggested on the following websites:
- http://www.dialang.org/french/index_htm
- http://www.campus-electronique.tm.fr/TextFle/

I. COURSE (transferred from the Faculty of Economics)

This course aims to teach communication strategies in a professional setting.

Bibliography:
Materials will be made available during the course.


II. LANGUAGE TRAINING – Dott. T. Berni Canani

Grammar, comprehension, and oral expression exercises for beginner, intermediate, and advanced levels.

Bibliography:
Lidia Parodi, Marina Vallacco, Grammathèque. Grammatica contrastiva per italiani, 3rd edition 2010, Black Cat-Cideb editore.
Lidia Parodi, Marina Vallacco, Grammathèque. Exercises, with CD-Rom, 3rd edition 2010, Black Cat-Cideb editore.

III. EXAMINATION

Oral exam: assessment of the professional vocabulary acquired and of the morphosyntactic structures based on a selected article or a given situation.

IV. CONTACTS

Email addresses: antonella.leoncinibartoli@uniroma1.it
tomaso.bernicanani@uniroma1.it

I.COURSE
The material to be discussed will be made available during the course.

II. LANGUAGE TRAINING
Lidia Parodi, Marina Vallacco, Grammathèque. Grammatica contrastiva per italiani, 3rd edition 2010, Black Cat-Cideb editore.
Lidia Parodi, Marina Vallacco, Grammathèque. Exercises, with CD-Rom, 3rd edition 2010, Black Cat-Cideb editore.

Lessons in classroom with blackboard or LIM.

Attendance recommended for at least 2/3 of the course.

Oral exam: assessment of the professional vocabulary acquired and of the morphosyntactic structures based on a selected article or a given situation.

Simulation of a job interview or a situation in a professional setting or presentation of a short article in French.