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| CATALOG INFORMATION
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| Discipline and Nbr:
GERM 50A | Title:
BEG CONVERSATION-1 |
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| Full Title:
Conversation for Beginners-Part 1 |
| Last Reviewed:8/1/1981 |
| Units | Course Hours per Week | | Nbr of Weeks | Course Hours Total |
| Maximum | 3.00 | Lecture Scheduled | 3.00 | 17.5 max. | Lecture Scheduled | 52.50 |
| Minimum | 3.00 | Lab Scheduled | 0 | 6 min. | Lab Scheduled | 0 |
| | Contact DHR | 0 | | Contact DHR | 0 |
| | Contact Total | 3.00 | | Contact Total | 52.50 |
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| | Non-contact DHR | 1.00 | | Non-contact DHR Total | 17.50 |
| | Total Out of Class Hours: 105.00 | Total Student Learning Hours: 175.00 | |
Title 5 Category:
AA Degree Applicable
Grading:
Grade or P/NP
Repeatability:
00 - Two Repeats if Grade was D, F, NC, or NP
Also Listed As:
Formerly:
Catalog Description:
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A beginning oral communication course designed to improve listening, speaking and writing skills needed for survival in Germany. Students participate in a variety of pronunciation, listening and conversational activities to improve their oral/aural competency, as well as grammar exercises and cultural presentations. Not open to students with 2 years high school German or 1 year college German, with "A" or "B" within past 3 years.
Prerequisites/Corequisites:
Recommended Preparation:
Eligibility for ENGL 100 or ESL 100.
Limits on Enrollment:
Schedule of Classes Information
Description:
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Beg oral communication course designed to improve listening & speaking skills needed for survival at school, on the job & in the community. Participate in a variety of pronunciation, listening & conversational activities to improve their oral/aural competency.
(Grade or P/NP)
Prerequisites:
Recommended:Eligibility for ENGL 100 or ESL 100.
Limits on Enrollment:
Transfer Credit:CSU;
Repeatability:00 - Two Repeats if Grade was D, F, NC, or NP
ARTICULATION, MAJOR, and CERTIFICATION INFORMATION
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| CSU GE: | Transfer Area | | Effective: | Inactive: |
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| IGETC: | Transfer Area | | Effective: | Inactive: |
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| CSU Transfer: | Transferable | Effective: | Fall 1981 | Inactive: | Fall 2017 |
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| UC Transfer: | | Effective: | | Inactive: | |
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Certificate/Major Applicable:
Not Certificate/Major Applicable
COURSE CONTENT
Outcomes and Objectives:
At the conclusion of this course, the student should be able to:
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LISTENING - The students will:
1. Understand short utterances drawn from familiar material and
identify types of authentic listening texts such as radio commercials,
newscasts.
2. Respond to common social questions using stock phrases.
3. Understand directions and time.
4. Acquire new vocabulary from context.
5. Recognize and understand most reduced forms and relaxed speech.
6. Respond appropriately to the teacher's instructions.
7. Pick out main ideas and key words in familiar material.
8. Begin to understand content questions.
SPEAKING - The students will:
1. Use limited memorized material in simple statement or question form
(wh- and yes/no).
2. Identify and name objects, people, places and signs.
3. Give name, place of origin and simple personal information.
4. Express belonging to family, institution and organization.
5. Express minimal courtesy.
6. Express agreement, disagreement, invitation, suggestion, refusal
and acceptance.
7. Ask for and give directions and time.
8. Begin to produce utterances for emergencies.
9. Recognize and produce German phonemes.
10. Recognize problems English presents when trying to produce
German sound system.
11. Begin to convey appropriate meaning by using word stress, and
statement or question intonation.
12. Recognize and produce grammatical inflections.
12. Ask teacher to repeat if unable to understand.
13. Begin to ask information questions related to class content.
14. Be able to give a short, formal report.
Topics and Scope
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Content and topics will vary somewhat, but will reflect beginning
communicative skills required to function in cross-cultural, academic,
social and job-related situations.
LISTENING & SPEAKING:
1. Self-identification, personal information.
2. Nationalities, occupations.
3. Basic classroom objects, structures and classes.
4. Colors, numbers 1-1,000,000.
5. Money demoninations, buying: clothing, shopping.
6. Telling time, calendar, dates, holidays, celebrations, seasons,
weather.
7. Family members, simple greetings and courtesy expressions.
8. Understanding directions.
9. Interpreting feelings, emotions, and body language.
10. House, home and society.
11. Food and drink.
12 Travel and transportation.
13. Health, body.
14. Job search.
15. Alphabet, cognates, pronunciation, interrogatives.
TASKS (Listening):
1. Listening for the main idea, listening with visuals.
2. Graphic fill-ins.
3. Selective listening, comprehension checks, dictation and variations.
4. Clue searching such as listening for cues to meaning in a text:
syntactic features; actors, action, object.
5. Listening readiness (pre-listening) activities.
6. Information gap tasks.
TASKS (Speaking):
1. Questions, completion and cloze exercises, true or false, matching.
2. Sentence builders, word associations.
3. Group puzzles, surveys and polls.
4. Conversation cards, forced choice, slash sentences.
5. Directed dialogue, logical conclusions.
6. Information gap.
7. Conduct simple interview and report back to class.
Assignments:
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1. Assignments and activities will include individual, pair and
small group work, such as role-plays, interviews, problem-solving
activities, dialogues and skits.
2. Students will perform functional assignments in the community, such
as requesting information over the telephone.
Methods of Evaluation/Basis of Grade.
| Writing: Assessment tools that demonstrate writing skill and/or require students to select, organize and explain ideas in writing. | Writing
10 - 30% |
| 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% |
| Homework problems, Lab reports | |
| Skill Demonstrations: All skill-based and physical demonstrations used for assessment purposes including skill performance exams. | Skill Demonstrations
40 - 60% |
| Class performances | |
| Exams: All forms of formal testing, other than skill performance exams. | Exams
20 - 50% |
| Multiple choice, True/false, Matching items, Completion | |
| 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 | |
Representative Textbooks and Materials:
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