German A1.2

32Z0021

Bachelor

German

5.0

winter and summer term

The module can also be offered as part of the International Summer Language Course. Lecturer-based learning takes place in an adapted form.

1 semester

In this general language module, German learners with previous knowledge of German learn further basics of the German language and train all target language skills (reading, writing, listening and speaking). The focus is on coping with everyday situations and giving short, simple reports on personal daily events. This leads to grammar topics such as the formation and use of the perfect tense or the past tense of haben and sein.

• Short and simple listening and reading texts on topics relating to their daily routine or their own person
• Writing and replying to short e-mails
• Formulating simple requests and short questions
• Basics of grammar according to level A1.2
• Pronunciation training at sound and word level

The total workload for the module is 150 hours (see also "ECTS credit points and grading").

• The learning objectives are achieved in particular through communicative learning, whereby all language skills are taken into account and practiced in varying teaching forms (frontal teaching as well as individual, partner and group work).
• Learning is supported by individual preparation and follow-up in the form of homework and self-study in analog and digital form.
• The hours inserted in the Lecturer-based learning field are teaching hours.

• Portfolio exam

• The portfolio exam comprises 100 points and consists of a 20-minute written exam (K20), a 90-minute written exam (K90), a written work sample (APS) and an oral exam (M). K20 is weighted with 10 points, K90 with 50 points, APS with 15 points and M with 25 points.
• By taking the first exam element, the student declares that they wish to take the exam in this module.
• The portfolio exam is passed if 50% of the total points to be achieved have been earned.
• The portfolio exam tests all target language skills (reading, writing, listening and speaking) as well as vocabulary and grammar.

• Written exam: 20 and 90 minutes; see valid study regulations
• Written work sample as part of the portfolio exam: approx. 150 words
• Oral exam as part of the portfolio exam: approx. 5-10 minutes
• The requirements will be specified in the respective seminar.

The course is aimed at learners of German with some previous knowledge (A1.1).

• Students learn further basics of the German language, both receptively and productively.
• After completing the module, students will be able to understand and answer questions about themselves and their daily routines or about familiar people and places.

The knowledge at the initial A1 level is broadened to reach the level A1.2.

Students can cope with simple, everyday speech acts using simple, memorized means of speech, related to their daily routine, familiar people or places.

• After completing the module, students can understand simple, familiar sentences about familiar people and places and express themselves using simple, mainly isolated phrases. However, conversational skills are entirely dependent on repeating and rephrasing statements and questions more slowly if they are not understood.
• In the global scale of the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR) this elementary use of language at the now completed level A1 is described as follows: "Can understand and use familiar everyday expressions and very basic phrases aimed at the satisfaction of needs of a concrete type. Can introduce him/herself and others and can ask and answer questions about personal details such as where he/she lives, people he/she knows and things he/she has. Can interact in a simple way provided the other person talks slowly and clearly and is prepared to help.“ (CEFR 2004: global scale p. 3)
• Students can use simple linguistic structures and some basic rules of grammar.

• Buczkowski, Beate

• Buczkowski, Beate