INTERMEDIATE GERMAN I Course Outline & Materials College-Level 3 in progress revised: 10/10/06

An Interactive Online German Tutorial for the Academic Setting

josephlscott@hotmail.com

 JOSEPH L. SCOTT, Ph.D.
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COURSE DESIGN & OBJECTIVES

No one can "teach" you a language; it’s a gift you give yourself.  Because fluency has the limited shelf-life of a perishable commodity, your own desire and conscientious effort to keep learning are the keys to achieving, maintaining, and renewing it.  These materials work best for the inquisitive, self-disciplined, emotionally mature student.  These qualities are prime requisites for learning anything, particularly a foreign language.  For such students, we provide the opportunity and the interactive, multimedia tools.

Beyond the language-teaching industry's abstract "Standards for Foreign Language Learning in the 21st Century" experienced teachers still must provide the concrete learning goals and tasks that set you on the path to language proficiency in its linguistic, "communicative", and cultural aspects.  You should expect that your German instructor-tutors define the content and form of your foreign language study, provide the tools to facilitate your learning, quantify your progress, and certify the high-water mark of your competency within this four-semester program!  The materials & tools on this website will help you achieve this "defined, limited mastery."

To date five German states have demanded that the most recent so-called "spelling reform" be abandoned.  Now several key  German publishers have abandoned this arrogant, ill-conceived piece of social engineering, something Germans in large numbers had already done informally.  Until German-speakers settle spelling & grammar issues among themselves, these materials will use pre-reform standards.

Learning Goals Evaluation 
Content Skills Internet Tools Demonstrated competency Level
Cumulative Vocab:

Listening: dialog; illustration; reading contents

dialogs Exercises & Lesson quizzes; exam performance Novice high
Passive:  ca. 3000

Speaking: topical Q & A

exercises live interview (teacher's option)  
Active:  ca. 300

Reading: Medium texts

quizzes proctored Mid-Term & Final Exam (teacher's option)  
 

Writing: short Q & A; compositions

readings    
Grammar: in course outline

 

     

Responsibilities

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 on the Internet. Access Internet learning materials as directed in course outline.
Evaluate & chronicle student progress through quizzes, dictations, readings, & study questions over the Internet. After study, perform interactive exercises and interactive quizzes provided.

POLICIES

  1. ATTENDANCE: is STRONGLY ENCOURAGED.  Direct human interaction in German with the instructor/tutor and classmates can speed learning.  So, 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.

  2. 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.

NOTICE to college students: If you request or accept a grade of  (I)ncomplete at the end of this semester you are expressly agreeing that you also accept responsibility for completing all work contained in the current and on-going Internet version of this course outline, even as these materials develop and change from term to term, up to one year after the end of the semester; not simply a static, printed version of this course outline as may have existed at some moment in time during the semester.

Remote Four-Skills Learning & Objective Testing via the Internet

Language Skill

Learning Modality

Testing

Listening

word-phrase-utterance-meaning cognition

using spoken (acoustic) narrative or dialog

Speaking

grammatical (acoustic) speech production; pronunciation

live, real-time interview with spoken (acoustic) or visual cues

Reading

word-phrase-sentence-meaning cognition

based on reading texts

Writing

grammatical language production as composition

from spoken, text, or visual cues

GRADE

POINT %

GRADE COMPONENT
A = outstanding 90-100%
  • 30% of grade = average of highest scores on objective lesson quizzes
  • 20% of grade = proctored objective Mid-Term Exam
  • 30% of grade = proctored objective Final Exam
  • 10% of grade = free composition (subjective assessment)
  • 10% of grade = pronunciation (subjective assessment)
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

     
  ScottNet's® On-Line Talking Pictorial Dictionary: German-English / English-German  
Learning Goals  Akustische Phonetik-Deutsch Deutsche Grammatik
German Keyboard Nützliche Ausdrücke Conversational Cliches
Lieder German Links Webcams
     

MATERIALS

CAUTIONS for doing computer-scored EXERCISES & QUIZZES !!

  1. Whenever a person asks a question, the respondent may answer in an almost infinite number of ways.

  2. 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.

  3. So, what's a "reasonable" answer?  Please remember that:

Use these conventions:

  1. For special characters select the standard German Keyboard in your browser settings.  Alternatively, you may use the "escape-sequences" displayed there, or "cut-and-paste" single characters.

  2. Start your answer as suggested in the example or cue, and follow directions!

  3. Most questions require short answers in complete sentences.  A few may be fill-in, multiple choice, etc.

  4. Keep your answers short, directly to-the-point, and within the scope of the question-picture relationship.

  5. Leave two(2) spaces between sentences, e.g., [Nein.[][]Es regnet nicht.], where the answer requires more than one sentence.

  6. Use correct punctuation.  A period should end most, if not all, sentences.

  7. Do not hit {Enter} at the end of your answer; just click the [Submit] button with your mouse.

  8. No extraneous keystrokes or unnecessary spaces!

Deutsch 3: Tentative Calendar of Assignments and Quizzes, last revised: 05/18/04
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.

Lesson Plan Structure

  • Presentation:

    • Topical Setting: The computer first presents the lesson content (vocabulary, short expressions, questions, and answers).

    • Multimedia Dialog: The computer presents each previously encountered language lesson feature as text, image, and sound.

  • Dictation: The computer acoustically presents the student with a spoken expression, which he is asked to type and spell correctly.

  • Grammar: The student reads and studies a text representation of the central grammar topics featured in each lesson.

  • Exercises:

    • Written: The student is asked to print, fold, and complete a self-correcting hand-written exercise.

    • Composition: The student is directed to use the dictionary and idiomatic expression list to prepare a free composition to e-mail the instructor.

    • Interactive: The computer administers and scores an interactive multimedia exercise on the lesson material as a pre-test.

  • Readings in German Culture: Computer links take the student to a topical, real-time website, usually in a German-speaking country.

  • Interactive Tests: The computer administers and scores an interactive multimedia unit test on the lesson material.

Date

Topical Setting Presentation

Multimedia Dialogs

Grammar Reference & Written Exercises

Interactive Exercises

Readings in Culture

 Interactive Quizzes
    Dialog     Nützliche Ausdrücke Base Diagnostic 3
    Dialog     Conversational Cliches  
    Dialog das Interrogativadverb mit wo   Article Index  
    Dialog das pronominale Adverb mit da   Alzheimer-Risiko - (c) Spiegel Online Quiz
    Dialog der bestimmte Artikel Free Composition:  Sex gegen Stress - (c) Spiegel Online No Quiz
    Dialog der unbestimmte Artikel   DhM Artikel: Bürgerliche Kultur  
    Dialog Präpositionen mit Akkusativobjekt Free Composition:  Karneval  
    Dialog        
    Dialog Präpositionen mit Dativobjekt Free Composition:  Der Rattenfänger zu Hameln - Grimm Quiz
    Dialog        
    Dialog Präpositionen mit Akk.- oder Dativobjekt Free Composition:  Warum wir die Amerikaner hassen - (c) Spiegel Online  
    Dialog        
    Dialog das Reflexivpronomen Free Composition:  Die Stadt- und die Landmaus - Grimm Quiz
    Dialog

Reflexive Verben

      
    Dialog   Free Composition:     
    Dialog

Selected grammar review

      
    Dialog   Free Composition:  Deutschlandspiegel 537 - Kreisau Quiz
    Dialog

Selected grammar review

      
    Dialog   Free Composition:   

 
    Dialog

Selected grammar review

      
    Dialog   Free Composition Restaurant Das Brot - Wolfgang Borchert Quiz
    Dialog

Selected grammar review

      
    Dialog   Free Composition:     
    Dialog

Selected grammar review

      
    Dialog   Free Composition:  Die sieben Raben - Grimm  Quiz
    Dialog

Selected grammar review

      
    Dialog subordinierende Konjunktionen Free Composition:  Dornröschen - Gebrüder Grimm   
    Dialog        
    Dialog Modalverben Free Composition: 

Denkmalschutz

 No Quiz
    Dialog        
    Dialog   Free Composition:  Rotkäppchen - Gebrüder Grimm  
    Dialog

Selected grammar review

      
    Dialog   Free Composition: 

Denkmalschutz 2

Quiz
    Dialog

Selected grammar review

      
    Dialog   Free Composition:     
    Dialog

Selected grammar review

   Geschichte: Der deutsche Bund Quiz
    Dialog   Free Composition:  Composition & conversation  
    Dialog Selected grammar review      
    Dialog   Free Composition:  Geschichte: Die Revolution von 1848 Quiz
    Dialog Selected grammar review      
    Dialog   Free Composition:  Hörspiel: " Herr Biedermann und die Brandstifter", von Max Frisch  
    Dialog Selected grammar review      
    Dialog   Free Composition:  Hörspiel: " Herr Biedermann und die Brandstifter", von Max Frisch  
    Dialog Selected grammar review      
    Dialog   Free Composition:  Hörspiel: " Herr Biedermann und die Brandstifter", von Max Frisch  
    Dialog Selected grammar review      
    Dialog   Free Composition:  Hörspiel: " Herr Biedermann und die Brandstifter", von Max Frisch Quiz
    Dialog Selected grammar review      
    Dialog   Free Composition:  Translation Exercises (Part 1) "Der Europäer"  von Hermann Hesse  
    Dialog Selected grammar review      
    Dialog   Free Composition:  (Part 2) "Der Europäer" von Hermann Hesse  
    Dialog Selected grammar review      
    Dialog   Free Composition:  (Part 3) "Der Europäer" von Hermann Hesse  
    Dialog Selected grammar review      
    Dialog   Free Composition:  (Part 4) "Der Europäer" von Hermann Hesse  
    Dialog Selected grammar review      
    Dialog   Free Composition:  (Part 5) "Der Europäer" von Hermann Hesse Quiz
    Dialog Selected grammar review      
    Dialog   Free Composition:     
    Dialog Selected grammar review   Aufsatz 1 Exit Diagnostic 3

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