General German Language II.

Teachers

Included in study programs

Teaching results

Knowledge:
• Expansion of students‘ vocabulary, related to selected topics.
• Acquiring the basic knowledge concerning both the historical development of German and the sources from which the German vocabulary has drawn or draws.
• Gaining orientation in the context of existing regional varieties of German and an overview of the German language standard
Competences:
• Boosting students’ ability to perceive the level of formality, informativeness, and accessibility of a text.
• Improvement of students’ ability to express themselves actively, in a grammatically correct and stylistically appropriate manner.
Skills:
• Development of students’ language skills.
• Emphasis is laid on the development of students’ ability to produce texts with the required stylistic parameters.
• Expansion of the practical skills in the use of grammatically correct and stylistically appropriate ways of expressing ideas, related to the topics discussed in both oral and written form.

Indicative content

 Established phrases, idioms, phraseologisms and their practical use in everyday communication;
 Linguistic means of formal and informal communication and their practical use in communication;
 Historical development of the German language and its influence on contemporary vocabulary;
 Sources of vocabulary enrichment in the past and at present;
 The status of the German language in a globalized world, the linguistic norm and its practical functioning;
 Regional variants of the German language – Austriacisms vs. Teutonisms, Helvetisms vs. Teutonisms

Support literature

Required:
1. KOITHA, Ute, SCHMITZ, Helen. Aspekte neu B2. Lehr- und Arbeitsbuch. Stuttgart: Klett. 2017.
2. HELBIG, Gerhard, BUSCHA, Joachim. Deutsche Grammatik. Stuttgart: Klett. 2001.
3. DREYER, Hilke, SCHMITT, Richard. Lehr- und Übungbuch der deutschen Grammatik. Ismaning: Hueber Verlag. 2009.
Optional:
1. MARKO, Ernest. Príručná gramatika nemčiny. Bratislava: SNP. 2006
2. BRILL, Lilly Marlen, TECHMER, Marion. Großes Übungsbuch Deutsch. Wortschatz. Ismaning: Hueber Verlag. 2011.
3. BETZ, Julika Ulrike, BILLINA, Anneli. Deutsch üben. Hören & Sprechen B2. Ismaning. Hueber Verlag. 2017.
4. BILINA, Anneli. Deutsch üben. Lesen & Schreiben B2. Ismaning: Hueber Verlag. 2018.
5. BILINA, Anneli et al. Deutsch üben. Wortschatz & Grammatik B2. Ismaning: Hueber Verlag. 2017.

Requirements to complete the course

Interim evaluation: 40%
Final evaluation: 60%

Student workload

Full-time study: 156 hours. Of which:
78 hours – attendance at seminars
31 hours – preparation for seminars and for the interim evaluation
47 hours – preparation for the final exam

Language whose command is required to complete the course

German

Date of approval: 08.03.2024

Date of the latest change: 22.05.2022