GERMAN LANGUAGE I
LINGUA TEDESCA I
| A.Y. | Credits |
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| 2025/2026 | 10 |
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| Claus Ehrhardt | to be concorded with the lecturer by mail |
| Teaching in foreign languages |
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Course entirely taught in a foreign language
German
This course is entirely taught in a foreign language and the final exam can be taken in the foreign language. |
Assigned to the Degree Course
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Learning Objectives
Humorous types of text for L2-teaching
The course will face humorous types of texts like jokes, cartoons and doscuss how these can be used for the teaching of German as a Foreign language. From a methodological and conceptual point of view it willl be based on text linguistics and the theory of humor on one side and on didactic approaches for teaching reading comprehension skils. The focus will be on the question what is specific about humorous communication. In small teaching projects we will try to find out how these can be adopted for the teaching of a foreign language:
Program
1. Introduction. Cartoons. What do we have to know in order to understand humor?
2. Theories of humor. Classics: Freud and Bergson
3. New theories of humor
4. jokes as texts and communicative events
5. Asterix
6. Irony und sarcasm
7. Humorous texts in mass media
Learning Achievements (Dublin Descriptors)
(a) Knowledge and Understanding Skills: Students acquire the main concepts of ltext linguistics and humor theory.
(b) Applied knowledge and understanding skills: They know how to apply the acquired concepts to the description and analysis of German and its varieties. They know how tu adopt theories to the developemtn of teaching programs.
c) Autonomy of judgment: Students know how to judge the correctness and appropriateness of utterances in German language in particular they know how to evaluate the impact of texts published on didactic contexts.
d) Communication skills: Students can communicate in German at an advanced level.
e) Learning skills: Students acquire the basic tools and concepts to deal with research on texts written in German, particularly in the field of teaching german as a foreign language.
Teaching Material
The teaching material prepared by the lecturer in addition to recommended textbooks (such as for instance slides, lecture notes, exercises, bibliography) and communications from the lecturer specific to the course can be found inside the Moodle platform › blended.uniurb.it
Teaching, Attendance, Course Books and Assessment
- Innovative teaching methods
The lessons will be integrated by seminar activities and presentations prepared by the participants.
- Course books
Course books will be communicated in the first lessons and publishes on the course pages on "blended learning"
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