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| Detailed information |
| Pre-requisites |
Proficiency in French at school-leaving level (i.e. equivalent to B1 on CEFR for languages).
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| Original study plan |
Bachelor's programme International Business Administration 2025W |
| Learning Outcomes |
Competences |
| 1. General language competences
The students have knowledge of language learning strategies and communication strategies appropriate to B1.1 level. They are able to produce and understand French at a B1.1 level according to the CEFR.
2. Specific language competences
The students master basic French economic vocabulary. They can understand the main points of clear standard French input in familiar business contexts and factual business and economic information presented in French. They can manage simple situations involving written or oral communication with the company's external partners and can produce connected texts in appropriate business genres (emails, memos, etc.). They are able to summarise, analyse and comment on recent reports in the French media, particularly business press articles. They have the skills needed to find a job and/or apply for a job in the target country.
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| Skills |
Knowledge |
Learning Outcomes
- Making business : express the aims and needs of companies
- Describe and explain the respective characteristics of a good job and a bad job
- Express the expectations employees have of their employers and vice versa
- Analyse recent changes in recruitment methods ; Critically examine the role of artificial intelligence in the jobs of tomorrow
- Compare the different recruitment methods and channels and their respective relevance to the job sought/offered
- Understand the different components of a CV ; Producing a CV and covering letter ; Preparing for a job interview
- Written professional communication (commercial correspondence): requesting information, analysing customer problems and proposing solutions, formulating and/or responding to complaints
- Oral professional communication (telephone): taking and/or managing telephone calls
- Analysing various topical issues (reading, analysing and commenting on media reports)
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- Aims, functions and needs of companies
- Work and employment: the ideal job
- Job market and recruitment (CVs, covering letters, job interviews)
- Notions of commercial correspondence
- Telephone communication
Learning Outcomes
- Acquisition of knowledge and skills relating to the world of work: labour market, employment, recruitment, etc.
- Basics of written and oral communication in a professional environment
- Grammar: Questioning with inversion; Future tense and conditional tense; Conditional sentences; Relative and personal pronouns, etc.
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| Criteria for evaluation |
80 % attendence of sessions is required in order to pass this course.
Students will be assessed on the basis of tests, final exam, oral examination based on their student portfolio.
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| Methods |
Communicative activities to foster development of student abilities in the four skill areas (speaking, listening, reading and writing)
Individual, pair or group activities based on a variety of materials (texts, videos, podcasts); discussions
Reading, summarising and analysing topical texts chosen by the learners (individual portfolio on which learners will be asked questions during the oral examination); homework exercices
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| Language |
English and French |
| Study material |
The required materials are made available on Moodle or in paper form.
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| Changing subject? |
No |
| Earlier variants |
They also cover the requirements of the curriculum (from - to)
514FRENFCSK21: KS French Communicative Skills (2021W-2023S)
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