Linguistic Characteristics of the German Language

Teaching results

Knowledge:
- Acquistion of knowledge of the typical features of the German language (e.g., from a diachronic, diatopic, diastratic perspective) that distinguish it from other languages.
- Acquisition of knowledge of the current developmental tendencies in the German language and its characteristics from a genealogical perspective.
- Acquisition of theoretical knowledge of the different linguistic levels of contemporary German from a systems linguistics perspective and a basic knowledge of traditional linguistic disciplines.
- Acquisition of knowledge of the rules of orthography of the German language.
- Acquisition of a thorough knowledge of morphology and syntax in particular: the student can list, define and identify morphological categories; student knows the morphological rules and the specifics related to the different inflectional verbal types in the German language; knows the principles of the basic word-formation practices of the Spanish language; can list, define and identify sentence articles; knows the categorization of sentence types and the rules of sentence construction in the German language.
Competencies:
- Acquisition of the competence to characterize the German language from a linguistic perspective, with emphasis on the morphological and syntactic levels of the language.
- Acquisition of the competence to identify symptomatic linguistic expression in the German language with respect to selected aspects of the diachronic, diatopic and diastral planes.
- Acquisition of competence to assess the orthographic correctness of linguistic expression in the German language.
Skills:
- Acquisition of the ability to apply the above knowledge and competencies in a comprehensive way to the production of one's own linguistic expression in the German language.