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  Course Description
Course Name : Didactisation of authentic texts and their use in a foreign language teaching I

Course Code : ADE 747

Course Type : Optional

Level of Course : Second Cycle

Year of Study : 1

Course Semester : Fall (16 Weeks)

ECTS : 6

Name of Lecturer(s) : Asst.Prof.Dr. ALİ SAMİ AKSÖZ

Learning Outcomes of the Course : Knows text types and properties.
Can choose suitable texts depending on the purpose of the course, the need, level and interest of the student.
Can make changes and adaptations in the texts depending on the purpose of the course, the need, level and interest of the student.
Knows the types of exercises appropriate for the understanding of the topic and can prepare them.

Mode of Delivery : Face-to-Face

Prerequisites and Co-Prerequisites : None

Recommended Optional Programme Components : None

Aim(s) of Course : Starting with the question ´What is an an authentic text?´, students get the required information and skills about how to use those texts in class, the difficuities of using them, what criteria has to be used while adapting them for the classroom, and how to prepare original materials to be used in the classroom by themselves.

Course Contents : Starting with the question ´What is an an authentic text?´, students get the required information and skills about how to use those texts in class, the difficuities of using them, what criteria has to be used while adapting them for the classroom, and how to prepare original materials to be used in the classroom by themselves.

Language of Instruction : Germany

Work Place : Classroom


  Course Outline /Schedule (Weekly) Planned Learning Activities
Week Subject Student's Preliminary Work Learning Activities and Teaching Methods
1 Authenticity and authentic materials Reading and researching related resources lecture, discussion, brain storm
2 Authentic texts and their characteristics Reading and researching related resources lecture, discussion, brain storm
3 Pros and Cons of authentic texts Reading and researching related resources lecture, discussion, brain storm
4 Reading comprehension and factors Reading and researching related resources lecture, discussion, brain storm
5 Text difficulty, text appropriateness and inference problems Reading and researching related resources lecture, discussion, brain storm
6 Criteria for selection of authentic texts in daf-teaching Reading and researching related resources lecture, discussion, brain storm
7 Promoting motivation with authentic texts Reading and researching related resources lecture, discussion, brain storm
8 Midterm exam
9 ACTION-ORIENTED AND WORK WITH AUTHENTIC TEXTS IN LANGUAGE TEACHING Reading and researching related resources lecture, discussion, brain storm
10 Adaptation of authentic texts Reading and researching related resources lecture, discussion, brain storm
11 Authentic texts from the Internet Reading and researching related resources lecture, discussion, brain storm
12 Powerpoint presentation Reading and researching related resources Powerpoint presentation, discussion
13 Powerpoint presentation Reading and researching related resources Powerpoint presentation, discussion
14 Powerpoint presentation Reading and researching related resources Powerpoint presentation, discussion
15 Powerpoint presentation Reading and researching related resources Powerpoint presentation, discussion
16/17 final exam


  Required Course Resources
Resource Type Resource Name
Recommended Course Material(s)  Ferling, Nikola (2008), Lesen im DaZ-Unterricht, in: Kaufmann, Susan/Zehnder, Erich/Vanderheiden, Elisabeth/Frank, Winfried (Hrsg.), Fortbildung für Kursleitende Deutsch als Zweitsprache. Band 2: Didaktik – Methodik, Ismaning: Hueber, 35-68.
 Geisz, Martin (2001), Internet praktisch im Unterricht, Mülheim: Verlag an der Ruhr.
 Hartmut Aufderstraße, Jutta Müller, Thomas Storz (2006), Lagune Kursbuch 1-2-3: Deutsch als Fremdsprache, Ismaning: Hueber Verlag.
 Hrenko Podergajs, Klavdija. (2004) Vor dem Wie kommt das Was: einige Textauswahlkriterien im DaF-Literaturunterricht, Schaurein, 17 (1), 13-15.
 Jung, Hyun Sook (2001) Arbeit mit authentischen Texten im Fremdsprachenunterricht, İn: DOGILMUNHAK: Koreanische Zeitschrift für Germanistik,Jahrgang 42 / Heft 2, 259-277.
 Korte, Hermann (2002), Historische Kanonforschung und Verfahren der Textauswahl. In: Grundzüge der Literaturdidaktik. Hrg. Bogdal K.-M./Korte H. dtv. München. O.O., 61-77.
 Müller-Michaels, Harro (1993): Kanon der Denkbilder. Streit für das Recht auf Lektüre. In: Deutscher Germanistenverband NRW: Arbeit am Kanon – Arbeit ohne Kanon. O. O., 5-17.
 Solmecke, Gert (1993), Texte hören, lesen und verstehen, Berlin, München: Lanenscheidt.
 Nebe-Rikabi, Ursula. Authentische Texte im Fremdsprachenunterricht. In: Bickes, G./Dufeu, B./Willkop, E.-M. (Hrsg.) (1997). Umgang mit Texten - Unterrichtsbeobachtung - Grammatikmodelle und ihre Umsetzung in Lehrwerken (Jahrbuch Sprachandragogik 1995), Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz, 6-13. Online im Internet: WWW: http://www.scribd.com/doc/27678671/Authentische-Texte-Im-Fremdsprachenunterricht
Required Course Material(s)


  Assessment Methods and Assessment Criteria
Semester/Year Assessments Number Contribution Percentage
    Mid-term Exams (Written, Oral, etc.) 1 60
    Homeworks/Projects/Others 1 40
Total 100
Rate of Semester/Year Assessments to Success 40
 
Final Assessments 100
Rate of Final Assessments to Success 60
Total 100

  Contribution of the Course to Key Learning Outcomes
# Key Learning Outcome Contribution*
1 Equips students with necessary skills to study individually or in teams for intra-disciplinary and and inter-disciplinary subjects. 5
2 Equips students with effective intra-cultural and inter-cultural communication skills. 5
3 Evaluates the learned information with a critical approach gaining self-learning ability. 5
4 Uses information and communication technologies in education of German language effectively. 5
5 Equips students with analytical and critical thinking skills. 4
6 Equips students with the original knowledge production skills. 3
7 Equips students with analysis skills by thinking, reasoning and building connections among various ideas. 4
8 Equips students with Scientific Research Methods and to help them use the knowledge and skills related to these methods in practice. 5
9 Equips students with assessment and evaluation skills. 4
10 Equips students with necessary skills to produce national and international projects. 4
11 Equips students with necessary theoretical and practical skills related to the field of German Language Teaching. 5
12 Equips students with necessary skills to apply the scientific concepts and methods in practice in the field of German Language Teaching. 5
13 Equips students with necessary skills to build scientific connections among several knowledge fields. 5
14 Equips students with relevant skills to examine the native language and German in terms of grammatical, linguistic and literary perspectives and to utilize similarities and differences didactically throughout this examination. 5
15 Equips students with necessary skills to be able to do scientific presentations at national and international meetings. 5
16 Equips students with the information about national and international contemporary education. 5
* Contribution levels are between 0 (not) and 5 (maximum).

  Student Workload - ECTS
Works Number Time (Hour) Total Workload (Hour)
Course Related Works
    Class Time (Exam weeks are excluded) 14 3 42
    Out of Class Study (Preliminary Work, Practice) 14 5 70
Assesment Related Works
    Homeworks, Projects, Others 1 10 10
    Mid-term Exams (Written, Oral, etc.) 1 20 20
    Final Exam 1 20 20
Total Workload: 162
Total Workload / 25 (h): 6.48
ECTS Credit: 6