About Us

The French Language and Literature Section currently provides two full-time courses focused on francophone studies: Teacher Training for the 2nd Stage of the Primary Schools - French Language and Literature (two-field five-year Master's degree studies) and Foreign Languages for Tourism - French (three-year Bachelor's degree studies) in combination with English, German or Russian).
The study programme Teacher Training for the 2nd Stage of the Primary Schools - French Language and Literature covers all philological and didactic disciplines, which lead to the acquisition of a good language level and overall orientation in the literature and culture of French-speaking countries and at the same time to the appropriation of the ability to effectively transfer this knowledge. The output level of the graduate's language portfolio is C1 of the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages in all language and communication skills. The systematic overview of the socio-cultural context of Francophone countries is reinforced by subjects that deal with the theoretical aspects of language and literature, provide training for solving questions of linguistic, literary and didactic disciplines and prepare for the independent elaboration of the thesis. Graduates will find employment in the field of education, but also as a public relations worker, a worker in publishing house, in state administration, etc.
The field of study Foreign Languages ​​for Tourism - French Language includes basic philological disciplines leading to the necessary language level and general overview in the field of literature and culture of French-speaking countries. The studies are focused on the development of vocabulary related to tourism, knowledge of French and Czech facts and geographical, cultural and historical-social overview. The output level of this subject is B2+ of the Common European Framework of Reference for Foreign Languages. The acquired professional competences will enable the graduate - in addition to conducting guide services - to work in institutions requiring practical knowledge of the French language.

There are two fields of study in the combined form: 1) French Language for the 2nd Level of the Primary Schools as Another Subject and 2) French Language - Extension of Professional Qualification from ZS2 to SSK.

Students of all disciplines can use the library of the department (a branch of the Central Library of UHK), which provides both borrowing on-site and off-site.

Pedagogical activities of the department are interconnected with the following research projects:


Literature

The research is carried out in several sectors:

  1. Memoir literature: European and especially French memoir literature are the publications of the guarantor of the field, doc. PhDr. Aleš Pohorský, CSc.;
  2. The important publishing activities of the department is focused on the area of French-Canadian/Quebec literature, especially authors whose work includes the topics of exile, migration and nomadism;
  3. Literature for children and youth focused on Quebec literature forms the core of the pedagogically and didactically targeted research in the field of literature.

Linguistics

The research goals have been for long focused on several areas:

  1. Phonetics: focus on speech competence and listening comprehension;
  2. Problems of the lexicology of the contemporary French;
  3. History of the French grammar (19th and 20th centuries);
  4. Current language conditions in Brittany and their analysis: the position of contemporary Breton and Gallo.

Didactics

Didactic projects have a wide range of topics:

  1. Linking non-verbal activities with foreign language teaching;
  2. Work with literary text in foreign language teaching;
  3. Fun and creative ways of presenting the language material and their utilization in French lessons;
  4. Use of information and communication technologies in phonetics.

Students in the field of French language and literature have already worked out and are currently working on a number of interesting and useful topics. Their works have a very good level and are useful for future practice as well as themes for the wider professional public.

Conferences

The French Language and Literature Section organizes regular international conferences on literature for children and youth. It is a unique institution in the Czech Republic that is systematically devoted to this issue.

Partner Entities

A detached workplace Alliance française de Pardubice (www.francouzstina-pardubice.cz) has been located at the French Language and Literature Section since September 2018. Thanks to the mutual cooperation a trainee-native speaker is also available to students.

The French Language and Literature Section also cooperates with the Institut français de Prague (www.ifp.cz), the Gallica Association (www.gallica.cz) and the institutes of Romance studies in the Czech Republic, in particular with the FF of the Charles University in Prague (www.ff.cuni.cz) and PdF UK in Prague (www.pedf.cuni.cz), FF MU and PdF MU in Brno (www.muni.cz and FF UP in Olomouc (www.upol.cz). At the international level, especially the Université de Lille in France, the Université de Limoges in France and the Université de Sherbrooke in Quebec, Canada are important partners in the field of literature for children and youth.

Student Mobilities within the Erasmus Programme

The French Language and Literature Section enables students to undertake Erasmus student mobilities for studies at French, Belgian and Swiss universities to which bilateral agreements have been made: Limoges, Bordeaux, Orléans, Liège, Lausanne.

 

Contact

Barbora Treskoňová, DiS, Department Official

a: E building, room 52050

e: barbora.treskonova@uhk.cz

t: (+420 49 333) 1528

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