Saint-Louis University - Bruxelles
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MHAL1241 - German : Grammar in Practice II and Translation A-C



Credits : 5

Lecturers :
Mode of delivery :
Face-to-face , second term, 30 hours of theory.

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
- Correctly use lexical and grammatical spelling rules
- Correctly manipulate and alternate various simple and complex German sentence structures - Translate from language A into language C and within the agreed timeframe a new text on a familiar subject, with or without CAT-tools or dictionaries, using correct grammar, lexical selection, syntax, phraseology and punctuation.

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.
? The certificative asessment of this module consists of a single exam. It is therefore not possible to transfer any part of the grade. ? 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)