COURSE UNIT TITLE

: MATERIAL DESIGN FOR GERMAN LANGUAGE TEACHING

DEGREE PROGRAMMES

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
AÖD 5005 MATERIAL DESIGN FOR GERMAN LANGUAGE TEACHING ELECTIVE 2 0 0 4

Offered By

German Language Teacher Education

Level of Course Unit

First Cycle Programmes (Bachelor's Degree)

Course Coordinator

DOCTOR TOLGA GÜNDOĞDU

Offered to

German Language Teacher Education

Course Objective

Further development of media competence with relevance to students role as future teachers; acquaintance in the handling of different media in classroom situations considering the specific advantages and disadvantages of each medium, to enable students to design their own teaching materials for different types and groups of learners, learning contexts, media, language levels and language skills

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   The students can anaylse and evaluate classical and new media regarding their specific advantages and disadvantages in classroom situation
2   The students can use different media for specific purposes
3   The students can analyze teaching materials regarding their design, their degree of difficulty and their appropriateness for certain groups of learners and for the specific foreign language skills
4   The students can create teaching units for A1, A2 and B1-level for different media and the development of different language skills
5   The students can reflect their own teacher role using different media in the classroom

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Introduction and core concepts 1: Memory, Learner types, learning styles, learning-theoretical concepts and assumptions
2 Introduction and core conepts 2: Media and mediadidactical approaches considerations
3 Introduction and core concepts 3: Typology of exercises (traditional); skills, European Reference Frame, example analyses
4 Visualization: Vidoe, film powerpoint, OHP, Poster...
5 Audio- and video podcasts
6 Presentation and analyses of self-designed exercises for audio/video sequences
7 Presentation and analyses of self-designed exercises for audio/video sequences
8 Repetition
9 Course overview, Course evaluation,Midterm exam
10 Games: Vocabulary and Grammar; Speaking and Writing
11 Games: Presentation of self-designed games for selected languages aspects and skills
12 New media: From blackboard to white-board
13 New media: Learning platforms and their functions (DUO)
14 New media: Authoring tools; Second Life, Chat, Mail (social media)
15 Final exam

Recomended or Required Reading

- Roche, Jörg (2008): Handbuch Mediendidaktik Fremdsprachen. Ismaning: Hueber;
- Kluckhohn, Kim (2009): Podcasts im Sprachunterricht am Beispiel Deutsch;
- Rösler, Dietmar (2010): Die Funktion von Meiden im Deutsch als Fremd- und Deutsch als Zweitsprache-Unterricht. In: Deutsch als Zweit- und Fremdsprache, Bd. 2, 1199-1215. Hg. von Hans-Jürgen Krumm, Christian Fandrych, Britta Hufeisen und Claudia Riemer. Berlin, New York: de Gruyter.

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Lectures, plenary work, individual work, pair work, group work, short presentations

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 VZ Midterm
2 FN Semester final exam
3 BNS BNS Student examVZ * 0.40 + Student examFN * 0.60
4 BUT Make-up note
5 BBN End of make-up grade Student examVZ * 0.40 + Student examBUT * 0.60


Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

Written Exam and Presentation

Language of Instruction

German

Course Policies and Rules

Will be announced.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

tolga.gundogdu@deu.edu.tr

Office Hours

Thuesday 13:00-14:30

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Theoretical 13 2 26
Application 13 2 26
Research Presentation 1 3 3
Pre Class Self Study 13 2 26
Midterm Preparation 1 8 8
Final Preparation 1 15 15
Midterm Exam 1 2 2
Final Exam 1 2 2
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 108

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

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LO.14443455
LO.2533555
LO.34432544455
LO.4344555
LO.55555

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