German language : reading and writing [ LGERM1112 ]

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1. starting from authentic texts of different genres, introduction to the techniques of reading (extensive, intensive, skimming, scanning etc.);

2. written processing of these texts: contraction, translation, commentary, analysis, etc.

To acquire upper intermediate skills in reading and writing.

At the end of the course the student will be able to :
- understand the content of relatively complex, recent, and authentic topical (in a broad sense) texts (about concrete and abstract matters; politics, economics, sports, science, culture and literature);
- decode the lexical, grammatical, phraseological, stylistic and pragmatic information in relation to these texts;
- answer comprehension questions related to the content of the texts considered;
- process the information contained in these texts (summary, review);
- produce small, clearly structured written documents of a relatively informal character (personal letters, e-mails, notes) with particular attention paid to style, code and content.

Evaluation : Written exam in June.

Course Holder/Course Supervision : Supervision by one professor of the GERM Department; tutorial by an assistant who takes part in the assessment.

- 15 hours of lecturing: theoretical considerations enabling to improve the reading, presentation of different reading techniques, introduction to different types of writing and their particular linguistic specificities.
- 15 hours of tutorials to put the different theoretical approaches into practice. Equivalent time will be devoted to reading and writing.
- 20 hours of study and individual work, in particular:
- personal and systematic study of the vocabulary contained in the considered documents;
- preliminary work of preparation of the texts;
- redaction of the documents;
- complementary exercises of correction in self-learning
- updating of the personal notes, revision, memorization.

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