Last modified: 11 Nov 2025 12:46
Flexible online course working towards the progressive development of knowledge and competence of French as the target language, up to a Higher-equivalent qualification.
| Study Type | Undergraduate | Level | 1 |
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| Term | Full Year | Credit Points | 15 credits (7.5 ECTS credits) |
| Campus | Aberdeen | Sustained Study | No |
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The course offers an equivalent to French Highers, through a focus on:
Activities: This is an online, self-guided course. There are optional online sessions, where students can chat to a tutor and ask questions." Students will work their way through different course units. Each unit guides you through structured exercises to develop and consolidate your learning.
The course will be unique in its combination of online platforms with innovative use of generative AI tools such as Turboscribe and Mizou, to create a learning environment that promotes fluency and autonomy, whilst tutors also provide culturally appropriate input and feedback for rounded learning.
Students will study topics equivalent to the French Higher curriculum, across 4 units:
Teaching activities and assessment will focus on the following skills development:
Teaching activities and assessment will cover grammar points from the French Higher Curriculum, e.g.:
Assessment: This course is internally assessed, asynchronously, across the four core skills, at the completion of each of the 4 units with a focus on society, the world of work, education and culture, followed by a final summative assessment.
| Assessment Type | Summative | Weighting | 100 | |
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| Assessment Weeks | Feedback Weeks | |||
| Feedback |
Evaluation of each of the units through assessment of grammar points as well as four language and translation skills. 5 x language exercies, 800 words each (20%) each The assessment is a combination of both clear right and wrong answers (for instance for grammar points or reading comprehension), whilst also containing written and oral expression (including translation). Individual automated feedback with optional follow-up at online tutorial Automated feedback is individual to the extent that it will correct individual student replies, with regard to right and wrong questions. Automated feedback will be maximised in a way that responds to individual student performance. |
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| Knowledge Level | Thinking Skill | Outcome |
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| Conceptual | Analyse | Develop literacy skills: develop increased ability to understand and discuss a range of French works and to combine material from multiple sources |
| Factual | Understand | Develop the knowledge and understanding of a modern language |
| Procedural | Apply | Developing reading, listening, talking and writing skills in a modern language through activities including Conversation, Discursive writing, Reading, Directed writing and Listening |
| Procedural | Apply | Apply knowledge and understanding of language to translate detailed and complex language within the four contexts, covering topics such as family and friends, lifestyles, learning in context, jobs |
| Reflection | Apply | Apply knowledge and understanding of language to gain knowledge & understanding of French & Francophone culture, literature, & current affairs, through exposure to relevant reading & activities |
There are no assessments for this course.
| Assessment Type | Summative | Weighting | ||
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| Assessment Weeks | Feedback Weeks | |||
| Feedback |
If students fail an assessment, they are allowed one resubmission attempt for the next available exit point for the failed assessment component (other assessment elements are carried forward to the resit). Automated online feedback with optional provision of tutorial follow-up. Automated feedback is individual to the extent that it will correct individual student replies, with regard to right and wrong questions. Automated feedback will be maximised in a way that responds to individual student performance |
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| Knowledge Level | Thinking Skill | Outcome |
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| Procedural | Apply | Developing reading, listening, talking and writing skills in a modern language through activities including Conversation, Discursive writing, Reading, Directed writing and Listening |
| Factual | Understand | Develop the knowledge and understanding of a modern language |
| Procedural | Apply | Apply knowledge and understanding of language to translate detailed and complex language within the four contexts, covering topics such as family and friends, lifestyles, learning in context, jobs |
| Reflection | Apply | Apply knowledge and understanding of language to gain knowledge & understanding of French & Francophone culture, literature, & current affairs, through exposure to relevant reading & activities |
| Conceptual | Analyse | Develop literacy skills: develop increased ability to understand and discuss a range of French works and to combine material from multiple sources |
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