552.150 (23W) Language Awareness II a
Overview
- Lecturer
- LV Nummer Südostverbund ENC01001UL
- Course title german Language Awareness II a
- Type Course (continuous assessment course )
- Course model Attendance-based course
- Hours per Week 2.0
- ECTS credits 3.0
- Registrations 22 (25 max.)
- Organisational unit
- Language of instruction English
- possible language(s) of the assessment English
- Course begins on 03.10.2023
- eLearning Go to Moodle course
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Remarks (english)
There will be no lecture on Oct. 3 due to AAU Welcome Days. The class will be face-to-face but there will be the option to attend in hybrid modus depending on individual students' situations.
Time and place
Course Information
Intended learning outcomes
The aim of the course is to develop your general proficiency in English through improving your knowledge of grammar and vocabulary. Course work will focus on essential grammar (relative clauses and other types, pronouns, adjectives and adverbs, adverbial clauses and conjunctions, prepositions) and on expanding your lexical range on a broad variety of general and advanced topics.
Teaching methodology
- lecture and practice
- student contributions on pertinent topics related to lexical development and grammar
- self-study (online Moodle exercises)
- presentations
Course content
- expanding vocabulary (lexical range) on a wide variety of general topics
- quantifiers
- relative clauses and other types of clauses
- pronouns, substitution and leaving out words
- adjectives and adverbs
- adverbial clauses and conjunctions
- prepositions
- organizing information
Prior knowledge expected
completion of Language Awareness 1
- expanding vocabulary (lexical range) on a broad variety of general topics
- dictionary use
- collocations
- tenses
- modals and semi-modal
- linking verbs, passives, questions
- verb complementation
- reporting
- nouns (agreement and compound nouns)
- articles, determiners and quantifiers
Curricular registration requirements
Students in the BA program:
Language Awareness 1
Language Productive and Receptive Skills
English for Academic Purposes
Pronunciation
Students in the teacher training program:
Placement Test
Language Awareness 1 (Language 1)
English for Academic Purposes (Writing 1)
Pronunciation
Language Productive and Receptive Skills (Speaking 1)
Literature
Students will need the following two books:
Hewings, Martin. Advanced Grammar in Use (3rd edition)
McCarthy, Michael and Felicity O’Dell. English Vocabulary in Use. Upper Intermediate (4th edition)
Examination information
Examination methodology
- written exams (2 Midterms/1 Final) (if necessary, online Moodle exams)
- For the course grade, attendance and participation, presentations, online homework (Moodle quizzes) as well as the exams listed above will all be flow into the overall grade.
Examination topic(s)
Selected Topics in English Vocabulary and Grammar taken from the 2 course text books
Assessment criteria / Standards of assessment for examinations
Written exams (2 Midterms/1 Final), Presentation, Homework (Moodle) and attendance/participation
Grading scheme
Grade / Grade grading schemePosition in the curriculum
- Bachelor-Lehramtsstudium Bachelor Unterrichtsfach Englisch
(SKZ: 407, Version: 17W.2)
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Subject: Advanced Language Studies
(Compulsory subject)
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ENC.001 Language Awareness 2 (
2.0h KS / 3.0 ECTS)
- 552.150 Language Awareness II a (2.0h KS / 3.0 ECTS) Absolvierung im 5. Semester empfohlen
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ENC.001 Language Awareness 2 (
2.0h KS / 3.0 ECTS)
-
Subject: Advanced Language Studies
(Compulsory subject)
- Bachelor-Lehramtsstudium Bachelor Unterrichtsfach Englisch
(SKZ: 407, Version: 15W.2)
-
Subject: Advanced Language Studies
(Compulsory subject)
-
ENC.001 Language Awareness 2 (
2.0h KS / 3.0 ECTS)
- 552.150 Language Awareness II a (2.0h KS / 3.0 ECTS) Absolvierung im 5. Semester empfohlen
-
ENC.001 Language Awareness 2 (
2.0h KS / 3.0 ECTS)
-
Subject: Advanced Language Studies
(Compulsory subject)
- Bachelor-Lehramtsstudium Bachelor Unterrichtsfach Englisch
(SKZ: 407, Version: 19W.2)
-
Subject: Advanced Language Studies
(Compulsory subject)
-
ENC.001 Language Awareness 2 (
2.0h KS / 3.0 ECTS)
- 552.150 Language Awareness II a (2.0h KS / 3.0 ECTS) Absolvierung im 5. Semester empfohlen
-
ENC.001 Language Awareness 2 (
2.0h KS / 3.0 ECTS)
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Subject: Advanced Language Studies
(Compulsory subject)
- Bachelor's degree programme English and American Studies
(SKZ: 612, Version: 15W.3)
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Subject: Sprachliches Grund- und Aufbaustudium Language
(Compulsory subject)
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Module: Grundstudium Language II
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2.5 Language Awareness II (
0.0h KS / 3.0 ECTS)
- 552.150 Language Awareness II a (2.0h KS / 3.0 ECTS) Absolvierung im 2. Semester empfohlen
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2.5 Language Awareness II (
0.0h KS / 3.0 ECTS)
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Module: Grundstudium Language II
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Subject: Sprachliches Grund- und Aufbaustudium Language
(Compulsory subject)
Equivalent courses for counting the examination attempts
- Sommersemester 2024
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Wintersemester 2023/24
- 552.151 KS Language Awareness II b (2.0h / 3.0ECTS)
- Sommersemester 2023
- Wintersemester 2022/23
- Sommersemester 2022
- Wintersemester 2021/22
- Sommersemester 2021
- Wintersemester 2020/21
- Sommersemester 2020
- Wintersemester 2019/20
- Sommersemester 2019
- Wintersemester 2018/19
- Sommersemester 2018
- Wintersemester 2017/18
- Sommersemester 2017
- Wintersemester 2016/17
- Sommersemester 2016
- Wintersemester 2015/16
- Sommersemester 2014
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Wintersemester 2013/14
- 551.120 PK Language II and Translation (2.0h / 4.0ECTS)
- Sommersemester 2013
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Wintersemester 2012/13
- 551.120 PK Language II and Translation (2.0h / 4.0ECTS)