UCL - German - Advanced productive skills I

[ALLE1211]

[60h] 3 credits

This course is taught in the 1st & 2d semester.

Teacher(s): Fanny Desterbecq, Caroline Klein(coord.)

Language: D

Level: First

Aims
Main themes
Content and teaching methods
Other information (prerequisite, evaluation (assessment methods), course materials recommended readings, ...)

Aims

At the end of this course, the student will show oral and written productive competences of an advanced independent level (B2 Level of the CEF).

Oral production:
He/She will be able to express him/herself on his/her field of interest and to argue, carry out presentations, to use the language in a spontaneous way and with ease and with a good grammatical control. He/she will have acquired a clear and natural pronunciation and an intonation.

Written production:
He/She will be able to write clear and detailed texts on a wide range of subjects concerning his/her field of interest by making the synthesis and the evaluation of information and arguments borrowed from various sources, to describe in a worked out way, by using a varied vocabulary and with a good grammatical control. He/she will have an excellent orthography.

Main themes

Focus on language use (vocabulary and grammar) through oral and written productions. The stress will be laid on the argumentation and production of efficient spoken and/or written discourse. Special attention will be devoted to discourse and interaction strategies in speech, and to cohesion and coherence in writing.

Content and teaching methods

Contents:
To reach the aims defined for the course, the themes addressed will be concrete or abstract, of a rather complex nature, including technical issues in the student's field of specialization.

Teaching method:
Lectures in auditorium (entire group): focus, mainly through written exercises, both on vocabulary acquisition & expansion, and on grammatical and syntactic accuracy.
Exercise sessions: focus on correct oral production (vocabulary, grammar, fluency, pronunciation, etc.).

Other information (prerequisite, evaluation (assessment methods), course materials recommended readings, ...)

Prerequisites:
Having followed FLTR 1710 and GERM 1111 or GERM 1112.

Assessment:
Oral and written exam, evaluating the skills, the vocabulary and the grammar. If an external and free evaluation can be organized (e.g. TestDaF), students must take part to this evaluation.

Course material:
Course notes ALLE 1211 and photocopies given during the academic year
Book TestDaF - Oberstufenkurs mit Prüfungsvorbereitung distributed by Hueber (self-tuition).

Training staff:
The teacher is available during her office hours and can be contacted by e-mail.
Guidance at the self-tuition centre (CAA) and multimedia room of the ILV.