French Advanced Level

Entry Requirements

School leaving standard of education is recommended. It would be an asset to have an O’Level in the subject. For online lessons, learners need to have an understanding on how to use a computer.

Duration

30 week course with 3 contact hours per week.

Learning Outcomes

Knowledge
• Demonstrate advanced knowledge of French grammar, syntax, and a wide lexical range.
• Understand language across varied registers, styles, and text types.
• Develop in-depth knowledge of French literature, including prescribed texts and authors.
• Gain comprehensive understanding of French culture, civilisation, and francophone contexts.
• Understand linguistic features, discourse structures, and stylistic devices in texts.

Skills
• Analyse non-literary texts, identifying themes, language use, style, and author intention.
• Write extended, coherent essays using accurate grammar, varied vocabulary, and logical argumentation.
• Interpret and critically engage with literary texts, supporting ideas with references and quotations.
• Respond to written and spoken French with precision, reformulating and synthesising information.
• Speak fluently and confidently, expressing complex ideas with accuracy and appropriate register.
• Apply advanced comprehension skills to identify implicit meaning, tone, and argument.

Competences
• Communicate with a high level of accuracy, fluency, and sophistication in French.
• Demonstrate critical thinking, analysis, and independent judgement.
• Engage deeply with literary, cultural, and linguistic content.
• Adapt language flexibly across academic, formal, and real-world contexts.
• Produce structured, coherent, and well-supported arguments.
• Operate autonomously in both language use and learning, preparing for higher education.

Delivery/Method

Online lessons

Certification/Award

Certificate issued by MATSEC

Progression to Further Education

After successfully completing this course, learners may continue studying the subject , or pursue related pathways at tertiary level.

Additional Note

After successfully completing this course, learners may continue studying the subject, or pursue related pathways at tertiary level.

Exam

Language of Instruction

French