COURSE UNIT TITLE

: STRUCTURE OF GERMAN LANGUAGE

DEGREE PROGRAMMES

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
YAÖ 3007 STRUCTURE OF GERMAN LANGUAGE COMPULSORY 2 0 0 3

Offered By

German Language Teacher Education

Level of Course Unit

First Cycle Programmes (Bachelor's Degree)

Course Coordinator

ASISTANT PROFESSOR HALUK ÖZCAN

Offered to

German Language Teacher Education

Course Objective

To teach and to examine of specific structural features of the German language, mainly based on morphology and syntax.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   The student can recognize the basic concepts of the structure of German
2   The student is able to learn the specific usages of the German language
3   The student can comprehend sentences and the structural differences
4   The student can explain the exceptional usages in German language
5   The student is able to know the rules of grammar

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Main features of the German linguistic structure
2 The use and function analysis article in German
3 The sentence structure in German
4 The Germans particular syntactic constructions
5 Function and verbs used as a function
6 Nominalization in German
7 Cases of doubt in the verbal section of the German
8 MIDTERM EXAM
9 The German modal verbs and their use for subjective statement
10 Use of the Subjunctive forms
11 Affix, particles, euphemisms
12 The use of the modal particle in German
13 The relative clause, relative clause with the preposition "wegen"
14 The use and the main features of the word "es" Ellipse, saving one attribute, prepositions, noun, pronoun
15 FINAL EXAM

Recomended or Required Reading

Günter Schade: Einführung in die deutsche Sprache der Wissenschaften. Erich Schidt
Verlag, Berlin 1975
- Duden: Die Grammatik der deutschen Sprache. Duden Verlag, Mannheim 2001
- Duden: Zweifelsfälle der deutschen Sprache. Duden Verlag, Mannheim 1972
- Werner Schmitz: Übungen zu synonymen Verben. Hueber Verlag, München 1983
- Wladimir G. Admoni: Der deutsche Sprachbau, Beck Verlag, München 1997
- H. J. Heringer: Lesen Lehren Lernen, eine rezeptive Grammatik des Deutschen, Niemeyer,
Tübingen 1989
- Hilke Dreyer/Richard Schmitt: Lehr- und Übungsbuch der deutschen Grammatik. Verlag
für Deutsch, München 2004
- Ulrich Engel: Die deutsche Grammatik. Groos Verlag, Heidelberg 1996
- Die Modalpartikeln im Deutschen. Goethe Institut Arbeitsstelle für wissenschaftliche
Didaktik. München 1980

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Lecturing, question and answer, multimedia presentation

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

Midterm Exam: %40
Final Exam: %60

Language of Instruction

German

Course Policies and Rules

To be announced.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

haluk.ozcan@deu.edu.tr

Office Hours

To be announced.

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 13 3 39
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 13 1 13
Preparation for midterm exam 1 8 8
Preparation for final exam 1 15 15
Final 1 1 1
Midterm 1 1 1
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 77

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

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