German for Academic Purposes

Teaching results

Knowledge:
- Acquisition of theoretical knowledge about the characteristics and basic features of the German academic language. The student is able to characterize and identify the basic features of academic language in specific texts at the level of language levels (morphological, syntactic, lexicological, stylistic, text-linguistic) and masters the principles of creating academic texts.
Competences:
- Acquisition of the ability to apply time management in the process of creating an academic text, gaining the competence to distinguish and evaluate the complexity of the phases of creating an academic text (preparation for writing an academic text, writing itself, control phase),
- competence to formulate the goal of scientific work (research),
- gaining an overview of possible methods of scientific research and gaining competence in the suitability of their use in the elaboration of a specific topic,
- gaining an overview of the structure of basic types of academic texts in the source and target language and gaining the competence to distinguish possible intercultural differences, etc.
Skills:
- Acquisition of skills to draft selected types of academic texts with emphasis on those with which he is confronted during his studies (e.g. seminar paper, final thesis, written assignments),
- acquisition of skills to apply appropriate language strategies related to the creation of academic texts (use of appropriate lexical, stylistic, morphosyntactic means) in the target language,
gaining the ability to consciously distinguish appropriate from inappropriate language means (colloquial expressions, syntactically incomplete sentences, inaccurate, ambivalent expressions, etc.).