88083 - German Language Ii And Laboratory

Learning outcomes

At the end of the course students should be able to follow a lesson in German, to read a complex text about social or political sciences and make an oral report on it in German. To this purpose they should reach a minimum level of B1 (Council of Europe framework) for spoken and written German, while the ideal level is B2, and a minimum level of B1 for reading comprehension – ideal level B2.

Course contents

The course is composed of 30 hours lectures (taught online) and a 40 hours laboratory. The laboratory will be held both online and in presence.

The whole course is composed of a series of 30 hours of lectures and 40 hours of laboratory work dedicated to improve grammatical competence and practice written and spoken German. The labs are streamed according to the level of knowledge ascertained in the entry test.

The 30 hours course is organized into two modules:

-One module will be devoted to reading and analyzing written and oral texts focusing on specific themes which are related to the disciplines of the degree programme.

-The second module will be devoted to discussiong the topics treated in the texts and to improving writing skills in German.

Readings/Bibliography

The texts to be analyzed will be made available online on "Insegnamenti online": https://iol.unibo.it

Teaching methods

Letures are aimed to develop skills in comprehending and interpreting written an oral specialized texts and to produce written texts in German. The course will be held in German and will be dedicated to B1 students.

The language laboratory provides the basic notions of German grammar needed to achieve adequate language knowledge and communicative competence.

Assessment methods

Students who follow lessons:

Assessment will be made through two written tests (mid-term test and final exam) of the course, the exam of the language laboratory and a final oral exam.

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

The mid-term test and the final exam includes a cloze test, reading comprehension and writing a short composition in German.

The oral test is focused on the communicative competences, on the ability of oral expression using articles about actuality and politics taken from the Internet and German newspapers and reviews.

Students who do not follow lessons can take the exam as follows:

The exam consists of two written tests and one oral exam. The grammatical test concerns the morph-syntactic aspects of German, primarily the subjunctive I and II, the participles, the passive, the reported speech, the adverbial secondary phrases.
The other written test consists of a cloze test, reading comprehension and writing a short composition in German.

The topics can be found online: https://iol.unibo.it

The oral test is focused on the communicative competences, on the ability of oral expression using articles about actuality and politics taken from the Internet and German newspapers and reviews.

Students who do not follow lessons must agree the oral test (brief presentation) with the lecturer.

 

Teaching tools

Use of internet, audio and video platform, reading of texts

 

Office hours

See the website of Irmgard Elter