Saint-Louis University - Bruxelles
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MHAL1211 - German: Grammar in Practice I



Credits : 5

Lecturers :
Mode of delivery :
Face-to-face , first term, 30 hours of exercises.

Language of instruction :
German

Learning outcomes :
With reference to the Course Description (Learning Activities) of the Degree in Translation and Inter-pretation, students following this Course Unit de-velop and acquire the following skills (learning outcomes) :

On completing this Unit students should be able to:

- Correctly use the rules of grammar learnt in class in both oral and written contexts
- Conjugate German verbs both in drill exercises and in context
- Decline German nouns, adjectives, determiners and pronouns both in drill exercises and in context
- Correctly use lexical and grammatical spelling rules
- Correctly manipulate and alternate various simple and complex German sentence structures

Prerequisites :
None

Co-requisites :
None

Course contents :
In this Course Students will revise basic grammatical rules (conjugation, declension, spelling, syntactic structures, etc.) and develop new skills in order to reach an intermediate level. The course provides several tools for the purpose of improve the students written and speaking proficiency.

Planned learning activities and teaching methods :
Exercises (practical language and laboratory work, guided study, simulation, etc.)
Presentations in lecture format
Personalised progress monitoring and support

Assessment methods and criteria :
? Formative assessment + written evaluation including a range of question formats. ? Students resitting the exams for this course in 2018-19 will be assessed on the course material of the current year, i.e. 2018-19.

Recommended or required reading :
Sources et references to assist the student:
http://www.duden.de/
http://www.begegnungen-deutsch.de/
http://www.deutschunddeutlich.de/

Other information :
Other course materials: 1. Clamer, Friedrich; Heilmann, Ehrard G.(2007): Übungsgrammatik für die Grundstufe 4. überarbei-tete Auflage. ISBN 978-3-922989-70-7
2. Clamer, Friedrich; Heilmann, Erhard G.; Röller, Helmut (2007): Übungsgrammatik für die Mittelstu-fe Erweiterte Fassung (Zweite, korrigierte Auflage). Meckenheim: Liebaug-Dartmann. ISBN 978-3-922989-51-6
3. Diverses notes de cours disponibles en ligne (ou éventuellement en version papier pour les documents non disponibles en version numérique)