The Standard Grade qualification in French covers language skills, understanding how the language works, and autonomous learning and thinking. Learners are encouraged in effective use of the dictionary and other reference sources, and to identify, organise, process and restructure information. They also gain skills in processing language quickly and automatically, and in using memorisation and recall strategies to produce responses. The course develops the ability to adapt and change, to learn how to learn, to evaluate what has been learned and how it connects to what is already known.
The assessments and standards set for French test communicative competence. This means the ability to engage in real or virtual communication in a modern language using Listening, Speaking, Reading and Writing for a variety of specific purposes: personal, social, transactional and vocational through ‘learned’ and ‘applied’ language.