Diplôme de Langue et Littérature Françaises – 2e degré

The Diplôme de Langue et Littérature Françaises is intended for foreign students who either would like to study in France or wish to get a degree there. Developed by the Paris Sorbonne University, this exam can be taken in all authorised universities in France, by edict of the French education ministry.

The Diplôme de Langue et Littérature Françaises is the second of three certificates (1st level: The Certificat Pratique de Langue Française, 3rd level: Diplôme Supérieur d´Études Fançaises). Only students who have passed the The Certificat Pratique de Langue Française – 1e degré – or have similar qualifications – will be admitted to the exam.

Students go through a general course programme which will be complemented by an optional subject: Literature, translation, European institutions, political institutions, history, art history or economy and population.

Areas of Examination
Written exams
  • Summarising a text and text commentary: The student has to summarise a text of daily life on a third of the length of the original text. After that, a kommentary has to be written that deals with the whole text or a sentence thereof.
  • Translation into the mother tongue: The student has to translate a literary or regional studies text back into their mother language.
  • Regional or cultural studies: A commentary has to be written about a text of the litarture course programme (the student has to know the whole work).
Oral exams
  • Literature: A 20 line text must be presented and commented upon. This text comes from one or two literary works that are part of the course programme.
  • Regional or cultural studies: The student has to present a topic of the regional studies programme. After that, the topic of the text has to be compared to the conditions in the student’s home country.
Optional subject
  • Option literature: A text and a line of reasoning have to be written (the student gets to choose between two topics of a literary work).
  • Translation into French: Translating a text out of the mother tongue of the student into French.
  • Option literature, translation, European institutions, political institutions, history, art history or economy and population: The student has to write a text and a commentary to one of the topics. There is a choice of two topics at the exam.
Grading
The exam is failed, if the student reaches no points in one of the tests. At least 40/80 points have to be reached.

For more information please contact SELFEE (Service examens de langue Française réservés aux étudiants étrangers).