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Upon completion of this course, the student will be able to:
1. Use and demonstrate comprehension of German vocabulary related to
common personal, commercial, cultural and political topics;
2. Formulate in German questions and declarative sentences and
improvise brief paragraph length statements on commonplace topics;
3. Read and discuss simplified passages on a range of cultural topics
and read for general meaning authentic German texts;
4. Write with minimal errors of spelling what he/she is able to say in
German;
5. Pronounce familiar German words with great accuracy and correctly
sound out unfamiliar ones;
6. Control with relative ease the following: present, perfect, imperfect
and future tenses (werden), prepositions, nominative, dative and
subjunctive cases, question pronouns, word order of complex sentences,
comparative and superlative, relative clauses, adjectives;
7. Produce compound and complex sentences using the most common
conjunctions;
8. Identify the main idea when listening to German spoken at a natural
speed.
9. Respond to frequently occurring situations in culturally appropriate
way.
10. Complete "real world" tasks such as comprehend or produce texts in
ads, announcements, instructions, phone conversations, interviews,
etc.
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1. German vocabulary related to nearly all the most common personal and
social topics
2. German conversational formulas and the most common idioms
3. Improvising paragraph-length personal statements
4. Reading and analyzing shorter German texts
5. Grammatical terminology
6. Creating terminology
7. Listening to German spoken at a natural speed
8. Continuation of introduction to German culture.
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Assignments may include:
1. Studying lessons from the textbook
2. Memorizing vocabulary and verb conjugations
3. Completing exercises in textbook, workbook and worksheets
4. Working in language lab and writing reports
5. Reviewing for quizzes and tests
6. Quizzes and tests
7. Writing compositions
8. Oral reports
9. Group activities and projects
Writing: Assessment tools that demonstrate writing skill and/or require students to select, organize and explain ideas in writing. | Writing 10 - 20% |
Written homework, Reading reports, Lab reports | |
Problem solving: Assessment tools, other than exams, that demonstrate competence in computational or non-computational problem solving skills. | Problem Solving 10 - 20% |
Group activities and projects | |
Skill Demonstrations: All skill-based and physical demonstrations used for assessment purposes including skill performance exams. | Skill Demonstrations 20 - 30% |
Class performances, Performance exams | |
Exams: All forms of formal testing, other than skill performance exams. | Exams 40 - 50% |
Multiple choice, True/false, Matching items, Completion, Essay exams | |
Other: Includes any assessment tools that do not logically fit into the above categories. | Other Category 5 - 10% |
Completion of semester's language lab hours | |
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KONTAKTE (text, workbook, and lab manual), Terrell, Tschirner and
Nikolai, 5th ed., McGraw Hill, 2003.