GER20240

Learning Outcomes:

On successful completion of this module students should be able to:
• Correctly employ most basic and some more complex grammatical structures commonly used in informal and formal German discourse
• demonstrate an understanding of the key ideas conveyed in texts on a variety of familiar topics, with particular emphasis on their culturally-specific inflections (e.g. living as a student German-speaking countries, cities in German-speaking countries).
• produce coherent, grammatically correct written texts showing an ability to describe experiences and impressions and to express personal hopes and ambitions employing appropriate tenses and structures
• deliver in clear German a short, well-structured oral presentation on a prepared topic
• participate in conversations on familiar topics relating to personal information and interests

Indicative Module Content:

Students will consolidate the grammatical knowledge developed at Stage 1, with particular emphasis on the control of common regular and irregular verbs in all tenses. They will develop competence in the area of voice (Passiv, Konjunktiv II) and improve their control of complex sentence structure.
The main topic areas covered will be talking about the past, the environment, describing cities, places and different living situations, with a special focus on student living.

Student Effort Hours:

Approaches to Teaching and Learning:

Students will be taught in small groups with a focus on small group work and active learning (spoken and written production in class independently, in pairs and in small groups).

Students will develop their oral and written production skills by completing regular homework assignments and preparing short, structured presentations. In this, students will be expected to explore authentic target-language source materials which they have sourced themselves.

Students will be expected to maintain detailed vocabulary records and to regularly work on grammar independently,

Course materials will be drawn from a range of contemporary audio-visual and textual sources and supported by the use of a grammar book.

Contact hours will be conducted in the physical classroom and will be directed by the university timetable. All students are expected to engage fully with all classes as scheduled in the timetable.

AI is NOT allowed in this module.

Requirements, Exclusions and Recommendations

Not applicable to this module.

Module Requisites and Incompatibles

Pre-requisite:
GER10110 - German Beginners B

Incompatibles:
GER10010 - German Language I a, GER10020 - German Language I b, GER20060 - German Language II a


 

Assessment Strategy

 

Please see Student Jargon Buster for more information about remediation types and timing. 

Feedback Strategy/Strategies

• Feedback individually to students, on an activity or draft prior to summative assessment
• Feedback individually to students, post-assessment
• Group/class feedback, post-assessment
• Online automated feedback
• Peer review activities
• Self-assessment activities

How will my Feedback be Delivered?

Start of module: Initial self-assessment against CEFR criteria. Throughout module: Individual feedback after class test (written and oral) In-class peer review: correcting short written exercises In-class group feedback on class test (addressing problem areas identified in class tests) Regular written/oral feedback on homework and opportunity to correct errors and re-submit Practice using online grammar exercises (self-correcting)

Timetabling information is displayed only for guidance purposes, relates to the current Academic Year only and is subject to change.