COURSE UNIT TITLE

: WRITING SKILLS II

DEGREE PROGRAMMES

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
YAÖ 1008 WRITING SKILLS II COMPULSORY 3 0 0 3

Offered By

German Language Teacher Education

Level of Course Unit

First Cycle Programmes (Bachelor's Degree)

Course Coordinator

INSTRUCTOR ZEYNEP ATEŞ BOZKURT

Offered to

German Language Teacher Education

Course Objective

Development and training of writing skills at B1-Level with regard to inofficial and official written genres (letter, mail, job application, curriculum vitae etc. combined with the practice of task-relevant vocabulary and grammatical aspects; development and training of creative writing skills.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   The students can compose simple genres at B1-Level (invitation, thank-you-notes, job application, curriculum vitae etc.).
2   The students con compose creative texts on the basis of examples texts ( Elfchen , poems, stories etc.).
3   The students can identify and analyze typical stylistic elements of official and private mails/letters.
4   The students can compose official and inofficial letters by applying typical stylistic elements.
5   The students can actively use B1-vocabulary when writing texts.

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Creative writing: I spell myself Curriculum vitae (Past tense, nominalizations)
2 Creative writing: Paper clip-story Congratulation
3 Creative writing: Story (V and prepositions) Thank-you-notes (private official)
4 Creative writing: Elfchen Invitation (private official) and answer
5 Description (Things, pictures)
6 Description (people)
7 Characterization: Whose bag is this (Formulating hypothesis and guesses)
8 Repetition
9 Midterm exam
10 Creative writing: Picture story 1 Job application
11 Creative writing: Varying a poem ( als vs. wenn ) Business German: Mails (private and official), formulating subject lines for mails
12 Creative writing: Varying a poem ( als vs. wenn ) Business German: Mails (private and official), formulating subject lines for mails
13 Picture story 2 Letter to the editor
14 Creative writing to visual or auditive impulses Discussion notes (Gesprächsnotizen)
15 Final exam

Recomended or Required Reading


-invitation, thank-you-notes, job application, curriculum vitae
-( Elfchen , poems, stories
-official and private mails/letters.
-official and inofficial letters

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Lectures, plenary work, individual work, pair work, group work, project work

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 MTE MIDTERM EXAM
2 FINS FINAL EXAM
3 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) MTE * 0.40 +FINS * 0.60
4 RST RESIT
5 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) MTE * 0.40 + RST* 0.60

Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

To be announced.

Language of Instruction

German

Course Policies and Rules

To be announced.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

zeynep.ates@deu.edu.tr

Office Hours

To be announced.

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Application 0
Theoretical 13 3 39
Quiz Preparation 0
Paper Preparation 0
Research Presentation 0
Others (Please indicate) 0
Pre Class Self Study 1 18 18
Midterm Preparation 1 5 5
Final Preparation 1 16 16
Quizzes 0
Final Exam 1 2 2
Midterm Exam 1 2 2
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 82

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

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