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FRE-90012 - Module Specification
Language Centre
Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences

For academic year: 2025/26 Last Updated: 04 December 2025

FRE-90012 - French 12
Coordinator: Patricia Payne Tel: +44 1782 7 33401
Lecture Time: See Timetable...
Level: Level 4
Credits: 15
Study Hours: 150
School Office: 01782 733960

Programme/Approved Electives for 2025/26

None

Available as a Free Standing Elective

No

Co-requisites

None

Prerequisites

French 11 or equivalent (CEFR level B2+/C1).

Barred Combinations

None

Description for 2025/26

This module is intended for students with professional working proficiency in French who have completed French 11 or an equivalent qualification (CEFR B2/B2+). It is the most advanced French module offered and is designed to refine your ability to communicate independently, fluently, and confidently across a wide range of complex, real-world contexts.
The module supports the development of high-level linguistic competence alongside a deepened understanding of French-speaking cultures. You will enhance your ability to interpret, produce, and mediate sophisticated spoken and written texts, while applying your language skills to diverse academic, professional, and cultural settings.
The language level of this module corresponds to CEFR level B2+/C1, with progression toward C1+.

Aims
This module consolidates high-level language proficiency, enabling students to operate with confidence and sophistication in complex communicative situations. It focuses on nuanced expression, intercultural sensitivity, and critical analysis of text, and discourse from across the French-speaking world. The module also supports sustained independent learning and prepares students for advanced academic and professional use of the language.

Intended Learning Outcomes

Present clear descriptions or arguments in a style appropriate to the context and with an effective logical structure for social and professional purposes: 1,2,3
Analyse and summarise long, complex, and specialised factual and literary texts, appreciating distinctions of style, and including specialized articles that do not relate to a specific field: 1,2,3
Write complex letters, reports, or articles with an effective logical structure, including summaries and reviews of professional or literary works: 1,2
Mediate effectively between members of own and other communities, taking account of sociocultural and sociolinguistic differences and communicating finer shares of meaning: 3
Evaluate adapting language, style, tone and register flexibly and effectively, anticipating and dealing effectively with possible misunderstandings and communication issues.: 1,2,3

Study hours

22 hours of class time.
88 hours class preparation and revision and private study.
20 hours revision for and completion of written exam.
20 hours preparation for and attendance at spoken interaction exam.

School Rules

Admission to the module must be confirmed through completion of a language level self-assessment form.
Students are only permitted to take one French language module per semester.

Description of Module Assessment

1: Class Test weighted 30%
Class Test
Students will complete an in-class test (maximum duration 45 minutes) to assess competence in receptive and productive skills. Tasks may include writing a short text in the target language, undertaking a dictation, translating a passage, or completing vocabulary and grammar exercises. All tasks will align with CEFR descriptors for language use at the relevant level.

2: Flexible Class Test weighted 20%
Flexible Online KLE Test
Students will complete a series of online exercises on the KLE platform (maximum duration 60 minutes) designed to assess reading comprehension, listening, grammar and vocabulary knowledge and writing skills in the target language. All tasks will align with CEFR descriptors for language use at the relevant level.

3: Speaking Assessment weighted 50%
Spoken Interaction Assessment
A 20-25 minute Spoken Interaction Assessment designed to assess learners’ competence in speaking (production), listening (reception) and conversation (interaction). Tasks may include a presentation, role play, or description of a visual or audiovisual prompt, followed by a question-and-answer section. Where assessments are conducted in pairs or groups, each student will be assessed individually and awarded separate marks.

The University undertakes a continuous review of its teaching and research provision to ensure programmes are of a high quality and changes may be made to modules where it is necessary and reasonable to do so. Please be aware that minor changes to modules, such as a change to an individual assessment, can occur up until enrolment, although we endeavour to give you as much notice as possible of any changes. Details about the circumstance in which changes are made to programmes can be found in the Student Agreement, available at: https://www.keele.ac.uk/legalgovernancecompliance/governance/actcharterstatutesordinancesandregulations/studenttermsconditions/

Last Updated: 04 December 2025