German - Advanced productive skills [ LALLE1211 ]

Having followed LFLTR 1710 and LGERM 1111 or LGERM 1112

The prerequisite(s) for this Teaching Unit (Unité d’enseignement – UE) for the programmes/courses that offer this Teaching Unit are specified at the end of this sheet.

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.

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.

The contribution of this Teaching Unit to the development and command of the skills and learning outcomes of the programme(s) can be accessed at the end of this sheet, in the section entitled “Programmes/courses offering this Teaching Unit”.

• Permanent evaluation: four tests during the academic year evaluating the skills, the vocabulary and the grammar;
• Final examination: written examination in January and at the end of the academic year.

1. Lectures in auditorium (entire group): focus, mainly through written exercises, both on vocabulary acquisition & expansion, and on grammatical and syntactic accuracy;
2. Exercise sessions: focus on correct oral production (vocabulary, grammar, fluency, pronunciation, etc.); different exercises focusing on the individual and interactive oral expression and on the written expression. Documents and activities are related to the student's field of interests;
3. Self-learning: Theissen, S. & Klein, C. : « Expressions, proverbes, comparaisons, abréviations et acronymes allemands », PUL, 2012.

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.); different exercises focusing on the individual and interactive oral expression and on the written expression. Documents and activities are related to the student's field of interests;
• Self-learning: Theissen, S. & Klein, C. : « Expressions, proverbes, comparaisons, abréviations et acronymes allemands », PUL, 2012.

• Syllabus LALLE1211 and copies handed out in class and available on Moodle
• Theissen, S. & Klein, C. : « Expressions, proverbes, comparaisons, abréviations et acronymes allemands », PUL, 2012.