Course: Receptive and Productive Text Competence 2

ECTS credits: 3

Language: German and Croatian

Duration: one semester

Status: obligatory

Course type: 3 hours of seminar, 1 hour of exercise

Enrolment requirements: course “Receptive and Productive Text Competence 1”

Course description: The course covers following topics: Besonderes und Gewöhnliches; Kunst und Kultur; Politisches und Amtliches; current topics / revision (grammar); oral and written analysis of Croatian and German texts; developing awareness of linguistic and cultural differences between Croatian- and German-speaking area; preparing of outlines and summaries of complex texts, discussion on a specific topic, discussion essays on the given and free topic; preparing of presentations and handouts; written translation of different text types into German or Croatian; building glossaries on specific topics; expanding vocabulary on specific topics.

Learning outcomes: Students will be able to: summarize complex texts in German; comprehend, describe and transform complex grammatical structures; define technical terms in German texts; translate complex German and Croatian texts (orally and in writing); recognize and explain linguistic and cultural differences between Croatian- and German-speaking area; defend arguments

Teaching methods: teaching through seminars/exercises and teacher-led demonstrations in the classroom, presentations, classroom discussion

Literature: Buscha, Raven, Szita: Erkundungen C2. Integriertes Kurs- und Arbeitsbuch, Schubert-Verlag 2014. - Autentični njemački i hrvatski tekstovi. - Duden Deutsches Universalwörterbuch ili Wahrig, Deutsches Wörterbuch, Bertelsmann Lexikon Verlag (neue Rechtschreibung). - Kljaić, Deutsch-kroatisches Wörterbuch, Školska knjiga 2005. - Hansen-Kokoruš, Matešić, Pečur-Medinger, Znika, Deutsch-kroatisches Universalwörterbuch, Nakladni zavod Globus 2005. - Rodek, Njemačko-hrvatski poslovni rječnik, Masmedia 2004. - Rodek, Hrvatsko-njemački poslovni rječnik, Masmedia 2009. - Tatsachen über Deutschland. - Österreich: Tatsachen und Zahlen. - Helbig/Buscha, Deutsche Grammatik, Langenscheidt 2001. - Helbig/Buscha, Übungsgrammatik Deutsch, Langenscheidt 2000. – Skender Libhard, Crnko Gmaz, Texte unter der Lupe – was und wie, Übungsbuch für Germanistikstudenten, Leykam international 2010. - Hall/Scheiner, Übungsgrammatik für Fortgeschrittene, Verlag für Deutsch 2000, Neubearbeitung. - Schade, Einführung in die deutsche Sprache der Wissenschaften, Erich Schmidt Verlag 1993. - Földeak, Sag`s besser! (Teil 1, Teil 2), Hueber Verlag 2003. - Duden Richtiges und gutes Deutsch, Band 9. - Wahrig Fehlerfreies und gutes Deutsch, Bertelsmann Lexikon Institut 2003.

Evaluation Methods and Grading: class attendance, two discussion essays, reading comprehension and oral translation of a non-fiction book in German into Croatian, written exam, oral exam