• Competences corresponding the final attainment level of secondary school

• Dutch

Starting from the observation that most students coming from school have problems at the oral level, this course wants students to overcome their fear of speaking. Increase of students' oral profiency will therefore be focused on.
As far as reading skills are concerned, students will learn how to use various inferential techniques to understand unfamiliar words within a particular context.
Students will also get acquainted with typical characteristics of written German. Furthermore, students will be motivated to use German in a more creative way (by producing their own texts).
Vocabulary and general grammatical and stylistic skills will be improved by means of various exercises and translations from Dutch into German.
This course specifically contributes to improving language awareness and language skills in German throughout the Bachelor's programme and aims to help the students to effectively and fluently contribute to discussions within and outside their own field of study while making use of abstract notions and expressions. Students are able to understand at a reasonable speed and with a critical mind general and academically specific texts and are able to prepare and conceptualise texts within their domain of study as well as outside, make notes or write an essay which bears witness of good communciation skills. In doing so students will activate communicative strategies based on language awareness and will use primary sources. Exit level at the end of the Ba is ALTE 4 or CEFR C1.