B1864 - GERMAN LANGUAGE AND LABORATORY I

Learning outcomes

The student, at the end of the course, must demonstrate the ability to understand concepts and topics related to social sciences, political sciences, in general, and international politics and his news expressed in German and must also be able to express himself on the same topics in German at a level not less than A2 and, ideally, B1 (according to the Council of Europe Reference Framework).

Course contents

The whole course is composed of a series of 20 hours of lectures, and 40 hours of laboratory work dedicated to practicing spoken and written German.

The language laboratory is aimed at allowing students to achieve a good level of linguistic and communicative competence.

The 20 hours course is organized into two modules:

a) one module will be devoted to enhancing students' reading, listening and analysing skills by exposing them to a wide range of oral and written text types which will focus on themes which are related to the disciplines of the degree course and to the German political system and culture.

b) The second module will be devoted to oral analysis and discussion of the topics treated in the written texts.

Readings/Bibliography

For the course:

The texts to be analyzed will be made available online on the platform Virtuale. 

For the laboratory

Anne Buscha, Syilvia Szita: Begegnungen. Deutsch als Fremdsprache. Integriertes Kurs- und Arbeitsbuch A1+ A2+, Schubert-Verlag, Leipzig.

And the grammar

Grammatik – ganz klar! Grammatica con esercizi A1-B1, Hueber Verlag.

Teaching methods

The language laboratory is aimed at allowing students to achieve a good level of linguistic and communicative competence.

Lectures are aimed at developing skills in order to understand and interpret written and oral texts of average difficulty. The course will be held predominantly in German and is destined to students who have completed Level A2.

Assessment methods

Students who follow lessons:

The written examination of the laboratory deals with the morph-syntactic aspects of German, primarily the subjunctive I and II, the participles, the passive, the indirect speech, the adverbial secondary phrases.

The final exam consist of a:

Written test – reading comprehension (level A2), cloze test, open questions an other exercises.

Students who do not follow lessons:

The written examination of the laboratory deals with the morph-syntactic aspects of German, primarily the subjunctive I and II, the participles, the passive, the indirect speech, the adverbial secondary phrases

The final exam consist of a:

Written test – reading comprehension (level A2), cloze test, open questions and other exercises.

Oral test: conversation about the topics related to the disciplines of the course, to the German culture and about other general topics.

Teaching tools

PC with videoprojector, Internet, DVD

Office hours

See the website of Alessandra Basile