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This is from a transcript from a secondary school in Cote D'Ivoire. My question relates to the term "renforcé". Can someone please shed some light and provide some suggestions as to how to best translate this term.
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Thank you.
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Proposed translations
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| 3 +6 | (optional) supplementary/advanced English |
Laurel Clausen
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| 3 | Remedial English |
Sarah Llewellyn
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Proposed translations
+6
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Laurel Clausen
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(optional) supplementary/advanced English
I agree with Sarah to drop the LV (I once taught an Anglais LV class at university level and nobody knew what the class was actually supposed to be - including the head of the department!)
But I'm not so sure about "remedial". From perusing course timetables online (searching with Anglais LV Renforcé), it looks to me like these are often optional English classes in addition to the required ones. I personally spent a year at a French high school on the "Literary" track and had wanted to take more advanced Math than was offered. I was given the option of taking an additional class (still not very advanced, but more complicated than what I was getting) once a week. I imagine it may have been Math "renforcé"...
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or "Elective English"
But I'm not so sure about "remedial". From perusing course timetables online (searching with Anglais LV Renforcé), it looks to me like these are often optional English classes in addition to the required ones. I personally spent a year at a French high school on the "Literary" track and had wanted to take more advanced Math than was offered. I was given the option of taking an additional class (still not very advanced, but more complicated than what I was getting) once a week. I imagine it may have been Math "renforcé"...
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or "Elective English"
Peer comment(s):
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Melzie
: In France at least this is for children who already have a 'reasonable' level of English and is sometimes even treated as an 'extra' language
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BusterK
: ce sont quelques heures en plus par semaine par rapport aux autres cours de LV.
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Sheila Wilson
: I'd opt for supplementary English (studies)
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sporran
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Unbounded Arts
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Sarah Llewellyn
: Supplementary sounds much better than remedial, Laurel, but I don't think it means advanced.
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Sean Sheahan
: We can improve or add to the existing Glossary too...'Advanced English' to a native English reader can give the idea of a very high level, which 'anglais renforcé is not. I teach it currently.
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Comment: "Thanks to all of you.
Your comments were very helpful. I've opted for supplementary English."
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Remedial English
Collins Robert French Unabridged Dictionary translates "(cours d')anglais renforcé" as "remedial English (class)". LV stands for "langue(s) vivante(s)," but I would be tempted to leave that out and just list it as Remedial English.
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Alain Pommet
: I'm not sure about 'remedial' - but that's what it means (or can mean). I took an 'anglais renforcé' class in a 'grande école' and it was extra English for weaker students (definitely not advanced!).
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Thanks, Alain.
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Unbounded Arts
: Remedial carries the idea of giving additional lessons in a subject to compensate a weakness in that subject whereas Anglais renforcé is for students who have a higher level in the subject (remedial class=course that helps students overcome deficiencies)
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You can have a higher level of the subject but still require remedial classes. Oxford Univ, for example, offers remedial language classes for its first-year undergraduates.
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