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| Content | Skills | Internet Tools | Demonstrated competency | Level |
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Cumulative Vocab: |
Listening: dialog; illustration contents |
dialogs | Exercises & Lesson quizzes; exam performance | Novice low |
| Passive: ca. 2000 |
Speaking: simple Q & A |
dictations | live interview (teacher's option) | |
| Active: ca. 200 |
Reading: Short texts |
exercises | proctored Mid-Term & Final Exam (teacher's option) | |
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Writing: simple Q & A |
quizzes, exams | |||
| Grammar: in course outline |
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readings | ||
Responsibilities
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Instructor-Tutor |
Student |
| Present material; model spoken German; facilitate spoken practice in German; guide student acquisition of active & passive German language skills through sentence patterns, vocabulary, grammar, German idioms; accurately depict contemporary German life, history, & culture; encourage curiosity; answer questions. | Participate in course activities in German; ask questions; contribute observations & insights. |
| Provide interactive learning materials over the Internet. | Working from left to right on the Calendar of Assignments, access, use, and learn Internet materials as directed in course outline. |
| Evaluate & chronicle student progress through internet quizzes, dictations, readings, study questions, & exams. | After study, perform interactive exercises, quizzes, and exams. |
POLICIES
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ATTENDANCE: is STRONGLY ENCOURAGED. Direct human interaction in German with the instructor/tutor and classmates can speed learning. If you are within commuting distance of Tucson, Arizona and want this advantage, ask where and when tutorials meet. Distance learners perform best when they are highly motivated and self-disciplined. Students have found that these tools lighten that burden.
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EVALUATION: You can earn an "A" in this course! See the table below to plan your final grade. You may take and re-take a lesson exercise or randomized quiz at or near the scheduled date, and you may see your own current high scores anytime. Interactive online Exams are proctored and time-delimited.
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Remote Four-Skills Learning & Objective Testing via the Internet |
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Language Skill |
Learning Modality |
Testing |
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Dictation |
sound discrimination; spelling |
single, spoken (acoustic) utterances |
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Listening |
word-phrase-utterance-meaning cognition |
using spoken (acoustic) narrative or dialog |
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Speaking |
grammatical (acoustic) speech production; pronunciation |
live, real-time interview with spoken (acoustic) or visual cues |
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Reading |
word-phrase-sentence-meaning cognition |
based on reading texts |
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Writing |
grammatical language production as composition |
from spoken, text, or visual cues |
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GRADE |
POINT % |
GRADE COMPONENT |
| A = outstanding | 90-100% |
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| B = above average | 80-89% | |
| C = average | 70-79% | |
| D = below average | 60-69% | |
| F = inadequate | 0-59% | |
| I = incomplete |
UNNECESSARY |
"I" becomes "F" after 1 year |
RESOURCES
MATERIALS
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Deutsch 1B, a MakeMeSmart®interactive online multimedia tutorial.
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All materials are in German, so get yourself a good dictionary, e.g. The Oxford-Duden German Dictionary.
CAUTIONS for doing computer-scored EXERCISES & QUIZZES !!
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Whenever a person asks a question, the respondent may answer in an almost infinite number of ways.
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It is impossible to anticipate all such answers, so to limit the number of acceptable responses, the teacher provides all the possible, reasonable answers he can think of.
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So, what's a "reasonable" answer? Please remember that:
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Drawings and photos seek to focus your attention on the action or factual content of the illustration.
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Questions seek to ask very specifically about the illustrated (or strongly implied) action or factual content.
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Your answers should always respond directly to, and within the scope of, this question-picture relationship, using the cue or phrase shown.
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The question / answer exercises provided should aid consensus on what the pictures illustrate.
Use these conventions:
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For special characters select the standard German Keyboard in your browser settings.
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Alternatively, you may use the "escape-sequences" displayed there, or "cut-and-paste" single characters.
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Start your answer as in the example or cue, and follow directions!
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Most questions require short answers in complete sentences. A very few may be fill-in, multiple choice, etc.
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Keep your answers short, directly to-the-point, and within the scope of the question-picture relationship.
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Leave two(2) spaces between sentences, e.g., [Nein.[][]Es regnet nicht.], where the answer requires more than one sentence.
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Use correct punctuation. A period should end most, if not all, sentences.
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Do not hit {Enter} at the end of your answer; just click the [Submit] button with your mouse.
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No extraneous keystrokes or unnecessary spaces!
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Deutsch 2A: Tentative Calendar of Assignments and Quizzes, last revised: 10/10/06 |
| You are responsible for blue, hot-link assignments. Those with * are under construction. Work from left-to-right, using each section of the lesson to prepare yourself for the interactive unit test in the right-hand column. |
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Lesson Plan Structure |
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