Morphosyntax: Speaking and writing

6 ECTS credits
150 h study time

Offer 1 with catalog number 1023268BNR for all students in the 1st semester at a (B) Bachelor - advanced level.

Semester

1st semester

Enrollment based on exam contract

Impossible

Grading method

Grading (scale from 0 to 20)

Can retake in second session

Yes

Taught in

German

Faculty

Faculty of Languages & Humanities

Department

Linguistics and Literary Studies

Educational team

Katja Lochtman
Lesley Penne
Mathias Meert (course titular)

Activities and contact hours

26 contact hours Lecture
26 contact hours Seminar, Exercises or Practicals
26 contact hours Independent or External Form of Study

Course Content

The course content consists of the following parts: First, some basic concepts from German linguistics are explained. Then there is a deepening of German grammar and an introduction to German phonetics / phonology. The course covers the differences between written and spoken language. The spoken and written academic language skills in German play a central role. This includes giving a presentation and writing an abstract, a summary or a scientific text as well as subject-specific vocabulary exercises.

Course material

Digital course material (Required) : Schriftelijke oefeningen, powerpoitpresantaties, Canvas

Additional info

All course materials (course, texts, exercises and powerpoint presentations) will be made available on Canvas. Students are also expected to take notes during the course.

Learning Outcomes

General competencies

-Students know and understand basic concepts of linguistics in German.

- Students have insight in linguistic analyzes of the morphology and sentence structure of German.

- Students have basic knowledge of the phonology of German and of the phonetic script (IPA).

- Students are able to give a linguistic presentation in German.

- Studetns are able to write a linguistic text in German.

Grading

The final grade is composed based on the following categories:
Written Exam determines 100% of the final mark.

Within the Written Exam category, the following assignments need to be completed:

schriftelijk examen with a relative weight of 100 which comprises 100% of the final mark.

Additional info regarding evaluation

The final grade is established on the basis of a written exam (50%) and a presentation (20%) and a paper (30%). Language mistakes will be taken into account during the evaluation. Students must participate in all parts of the evaluation process in order to pass the course. Students have to succeed in all parts of the evaluation process (= min. 10/20) to obtain a pass mark for the whole course. Students who fail to participate in all the parts of the evaluation procedure will be automatically marked as ‘absent’. Students can transfer to the next exam session the results of those parts of the evaluation process for which they have obtained a pass mark (= min. 10/20). If the student did not obtain a pass mark or was absent for the presentation/paper in the first exam session, the presentation has to be held in the form of an oral exam in the second exam session and the paper has to be (re-)submitted before of the second exam session.

Allowed unsatisfactory mark

The supplementary Teaching and Examination Regulations of your faculty stipulate whether an allowed unsatisfactory mark for this programme unit is permitted.

Academic context