88072 - German Language I And Laboratory

Learning outcomes

At the end of the course students should reach a minimum level of A2 (Council of Europe framework) for spoken German, while the ideal level is B1, and a minimum level of B1 for reading comprehension – ideal level B2. Students should be able to understand written texts of average difficulty regarding the disciplines of the degree course and to understand a news broadcast and make a simple oral report on it.

Course contents

The whole course is composed of a series of 30 hours of lectures, and 40 hours of laboratory work dedicated to practicing spoken and written German; labs are streamed according to the level of knowledge ascertained in the entry test. For beginners we offer an additional lab (level A1) of 60 hours in the 1st semester.

The 30 hours course is organized into two modules:

a) one module will be devoted to enhancing students' reading, hearing and analyzing skills by exposing them to a wide range of oral and written text types for the general public focusing 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 discussing of the topics treated in the written texts.

Readings/Bibliography

For the course:

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

For the laboratory A1 :

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

And the grammar

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

For the laboratory A2:

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

Teaching methods

The language laboratory, on the basis of a specific grammar for Italian speakers is aimed at allowing students to achieve a good level of linguistic and communicative competence.

Lectures are aimed at developing skills in order to comprehend and interpret written and oral texts of average difficulty. The course will be held predominantly in German.

Assessment methods

Students who follow lessons:

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

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 mid-term test and the final exam includes a cloze test and a reading test with multiple choice and open questions about the German political system and culture.

The oral examination is about one topic related to the disciplines of the course and to the German culture. 

Spoken German will be assessed by a short conversation about general topics.

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

Written test – reading comprehension (level A2), which consists in a cloze test, in some open questions and in a short text + grammar test (level A2).

Oral test: conversation about one topic 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