Second Foreign Language III (German)
Code: 103717 ECTS Credits: 6| Degree | Type | Year | Semester |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2502904 Hotel Management | OB | 3 | A |
Contact
- Name:
- Robert Fritsche
- Email:
- robert.fritsche@uab.cat
Teaching groups languages
To check the language/s of instruction, you must click on "Methodolody" section of the course guide.
Teachers
- Eva Maria Auracher
Prerequisites
There are no prerequisites.
Objectives and Contextualisation
Knowledge-based objectives
Students acquire the language content described in section 5 of this document. They also develop communicative competences in oral and written interaction, being able to do the following at the end of the course.
- Use German as the regular classroom language.
- Understand and appropriately use simple formulaic expressions for social interaction.
- Identify and relate sounds and graphical symbols to improve pronunciation.
- Understand the overall meaning of specialised language texts (tourism).
- Understand the overall meaning of spoken messages from speakers using standard forms of the language to talk about everyday and professional matters. Take down phone messages and respond to them appropriately.
- Take notes from clear and precise spoken information. Write down brief dictated spoken messages. Respond to those messages adequately.
- Select the information from a longer written or spoken message that is relevant to your own needs.
- Give a simple description of people, places and things.
- Describe personal experiences or those related to other people and experiences in the professional field.
- Express opinions and personal points of view about topics of general interest.
- Recognise expressions revealing the mood of the speaker and express personal mood.
Skills objectives
At the end of the course students should have achieved the following.
- Develop precision (in grammar, pronunciation, use of vocabulary, register, etc.) and fluency (speed of production, ability to express ideas and hold conversations), both in writing and speaking to the equivalent of level A2.2 of the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages.
- Broaden capacity for applying strategies and abilities to understand real written andoraltexts.
- Broaden capacity for applying strategies for continuing to learn independently outside the classroom.
- Develop the capacity to be efficient in the use of language in the area of tourism and in everyday situations.
- Broaden capacity to use the consultation material necessary for language learning: internet, etc.
Competences
- Be able to self-evaluate knowledge acquired.
- Communicate orally and in writing in a first, second and third foreign language in the areas of the hotel and catering industry and also in the different areas related to them.
- Develop a capacity for independent learning.
- Manage and organise time.
- Manage communication techniques at all levels.
- Manage techniques of internal and corporate communication in hotel and catering companies.
- Work in teams.
Learning Outcomes
- Be able to self-evaluate knowledge acquired.
- Develop a capacity for independent learning.
- Identify the correct vocabulary and grammatical form to apply in the tourist sector in a first, second and third foreign language.
- Manage and organise time.
- Manage communication techniques at all levels.
- Produce discourses appropriate for different functions, means, activities and situations in the area of work.
- Use idiomatic peculiarities required in the tourist sector at intermediate and advanced level in a first, second and third foreign language.
- Use internet resources for tourism in a first, second and third foreign language.
- Work in teams.
Content
As a result of the nature of the learning process, in which all the abilities and skills are constantly related to one another, the objectives listed in section 3 are constantly combined together in the learning process. The language content that is subdivided below into functions, grammatical content, lexical content and phonetic and prosodic content.
Language functions
The following list includes both general language functions and functions specific to the tourism field.
a) Socialising function
- Use conventional forms of courtesy (being interested in people, offering to do something, etc.).
- Make apologies and justifications.
- Use the correct forms of salutation and signing off (e-mail, informal letter).
b) Informational function
- Identify and describe people and workplaces.. Ask for and give information about somebody's personality, training and professional skills.
- Ask for and give information about places (personal environment, tourist destinations, heritage).
- Ask for and give information about tourist services.
- Ask for and give information about everyday activities, facts or events and the same for the world of tourism about things that have happened or will happen in the future.
- Situate a fact or event in time: from when something happens, when it will happen, how long it will last, how often it will happen, etc.
- Ask for and give general information about a person: physical condition (tired, sleepy, thirsty) and mood (sad, happy, afraid).
- Make hypotheses and suppositions from real or possible events and express doubts about the possibility of an event taking place.
c) Expressive function (feelings and moods)
- Expressfeelings of being worried, uneasy, surprised, satisfied, unsatisfied.
- Express hope, excitement or desire for something.
- Show a liking or dislike for someone.
d) Evaluating function
- Express likes and dislikes.
- Show interest or indifference towards someone or an idea.
- Compare and choose things according to given criteria.
- Express a supposition.
e) Inductive function
- Suggest, advise or oblige someone to do something. Offer to do something or refuse to.
- Ask someone what they intend to do.
- Express willingness, obligation, necessity or desire to do something. Ask for the reason and the purpose of an action.
- Calm somebody down.
- Ask for and give advice.
f) Metalinguistic function
- Ask somebody to repeat what they have said or what somebody else has said.
- Ask for and give clarification about the meaning of a word or expression, using examples or paraphrasing where necessary.
- Interrupt someone and take over the conversation.
Grammar
Students must be able to recognise and appropriately use the following grammatical structures.
The clause
- Coordination and subordination.
- Subordinate clauses: temporal (al), indirect questions (wie, was, wo, ob...), causal clauses (weil), conditional clauses (wenn), relative clauses, clauses with “dass”.
- Order of the components of the clause: Satzklammer, Mittelfeld.
- Coordinate clauses.
Determiners
- Declination of determinate articles: nominative, accusative, dative.
- Declinationof negative articles: nominative, accusative, dative.
- Declination of indeterminate articles: nominative, accusative, dative.
- Declination of possessive articles: nominative, accusative, dative.
- Interrogative articles: Was für ein...
Ordinal numbers.
Pronouns
- Indefinite: einem, einem, einer; jedem, jedem, jeder.
- Demonstrative: dem, dem, der; diesem, diesem, dieser.
- Interrogative: welchem, welchem, welche; wem, was.
- Dative personal pronouns: mir, dir, ihm, ihr...
- Reflexives: mich, dich, sich, uns, euch...
Adjectives
- Declination of adjectives: nominative, accusative, dative.
- Comparatives and superlatives.
- Genitive constructions, attributes and adverbial complements.
Verbs
- Verb tenses: simple past (participles), past of modal verbs.
- Reflexive verbs: sich ärgern, sich freuen, sich waschen...
- The verb lassen: most usual meanings.
- Prepositional verbs: denken an, danken für...
- Modal verbs: sollen, müssen, dürfen, können, wollen...
Adverbs
- Deshalb, trotzdem.
- Pronominal adverbs: darüber, damit, daran.
Prepositions
- Accusative prepositions.
- Dative prepositions.
- Other prepositions.
Conjunctions
- Weil, wenn, dass, ob.
Vocabulary
Students mustbe able to recognise, name, recall, explain and choose the appropriate term and use it in the communicative situation where it is required. They must also know how to make correct use of a dictionary and be able to establish semantic relations between the different categories. The vocabulary content falls mainly into the following areas:
1. Educational system and systems of learning.
2. Everyday environment: home, school, neighbourhood, town.
3. Organising leisure time: journeys.
4. Accommodation: hotel, campsite, boat (cruise ship), rural tourism, etc.
5. Transport: air, sea, river, road.
6. Professional profiles in tourism: travel agent, receptionist, tourist information officer, guide, customer service, entertainer.
7. Client or traveller profile.
8. Job profile and tasks: reception, information, organisation, etc., in agencies, hotels, campsites, tourist offices, transport companies and others.
9. Feelings.
10. Others: daily life (biography).
Phonetics and prosody
Students must recognise and appropriately use the prosodic features (intonation, rhythm, etc.) of the language. They must also recognise and appropriately use the basic sounds and sound symbols of German, as specified below.
1. Sentence stress.
2. Connecting consonants.
3. The stress in composite words.
4. Syllable separation.
5. The musicality of the clause.
Methodology
Students are encouraged to use the language actively in class and when practising outside the classroom, to carry out communication tasks similar to those we engage in in real life, in a wide range of situations. To this end, class activities are designed to maximise students' participation and help them take responsibility for their own learning.
The methodology is highly interactive. The students put all their knowledge of the language into practice in order to accomplish a set of oral and written tasks, both of a general nature and specifically related to tourism. In other words, the emphasis is placed on the learning process rather than on theoretical input from the teachers.
(1) Teaching language: German
(2) Teacher-directed activities include problem solving, exercises, writing tasks and case studies.
(3) Online tutorials comprise not only email exchanges between teachers and students but also the compulsory viewing of the assessment documents that the teachers post in a virtual environment throughout the semester.
(4) Self-directed study involves learning the theory corresponding to the subject plus the (teacher-directed) practical work on problem solving, exercises, case studies and projects (information search, writing, presentation to an audience).
(5) Gender perspective. In this subject:
− Classes include a gender perspective to promote equality between women and men and avoid producing gender stereotypes.
− Strategies to promote the participation of women in the classroom are used and they promote equal gender relations.
− Knowledge of the social and cultural differences between men and women and gender inequalities in the structure of society and in cultural production is offered.
− Knowledge is also offered on sexual and emotional diversity, gender identity and expression, knowledge and reflection on feminist thought and movements, the history of movements for womern’s rights, itsevolution and critical repercussions in society, culture and philosophical and scientific thought, and the knowledge of the values of gender equality in professional practices.
− Non-sexist and non-androcentric language is used in written, visual and audiovisual documents and other class materials. Since this is a langauge class specific resources are also provided in the language being studied for non-sexist language and critical reflection is encouraged on non-sexist language and its uses.
Annotation: Within the schedule set by the centre or degree programme, 15 minutes of one class will be reserved for students to evaluate their lecturers and their courses or modules through questionnaires.
Activities
| Title | Hours | ECTS | Learning Outcomes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Type: Directed | |||
| Classroom-based | 56.5 | 2.26 | 7, 6, 5, 3, 9, 8 |
| Non-classroom based | 56 | 2.24 | 7, 2, 6, 5, 3, 1, 8 |
| Type: Supervised | |||
| On line | 5 | 0.2 | 4, 1 |
| Tutorials classroom-based | 2 | 0.08 | 1 |
| Type: Autonomous | |||
| Activities | 10 | 0.4 | 7, 2, 6, 5, 3, 1, 8 |
| Theory | 10 | 0.4 | 7, 2, 6, 5, 3, 1, 8 |
Assessment
Continuous assessment
Students must have attended at least 80% of their classes in order to be included in the continuous assessment process.
Continuous assessment activities
Writing and speaking activities
Between three and seven activities are performed. Students may be asked to rewrite their texts to improve on the first version. Speaking activities may be individual or in group, and may take place in the classroom or be recorded and sent in. Depending on the level and the number of students in the class, they could be monologues, dialogues, presentations, etc.
Portfolio
The portfolio contains between six and eight tasks, covering the four language skills. These may be done at home or in class.
The following are examples of these tasks.
Reading worksheets
Transformation exercises
Mini-tests
Self-assessment sheets
Information search
Production of documents
The days allocated to mid-course exams can be used to work on portfolio activities, such as the listening and reading mini-tests.
Mid-course tests
One or more mid-course tests are held on the days set aside for this purpose, consisting of a writing test (one or two tasks) and/or a speaking test. These tests are in the same format as the final exam.
Attitude and participation
Students' degree of effort, attitude, and participation are assessed.
Final continuous assessment test
This test assesses the four skills (reading, writing, listening and speaking) in accordance with the general exam specifications established by the Language Service.
Students must obtain a minimum of 50% in each of the four parts to pass the test and an overall average of 60%. Failure to pass this test means a fail for the course. A pass in this test has a weighting of 40% of the total continuous assessment grade.
The final continual evaluation test takes place on the same day as the final exam.
Single-assessment option
The single assessment to pass the course is based on the completion of a final exam. This final exam consists of two parts: writing and speaking. The exam is on the same day as the final continuous assessment test.
The writing part consists of a test of written expression and a test of use of language.
To pass the final exam, and therefore the course itself, the following is required:
a minimum mark of 50% must be obtained in each skill (each part of the exam).
An overall average grade of 60% is required.
Students who have failed are entitled to a reassessment.
Exam resits
Students with an average score between 3.5 and 4.999 in the final exam or the final continuous assessment test are entitled to a resit.
Resits involve retaking the parts of the exam on which their scores were below the overall average mark, in other words, the parts in which they obtained scores below 60%.
Changing the exam date
Students who cannot take the exam on the set dates due to health, work (trips or other similar obligations) or on compassionate grounds may ask their teacher for a change of date, supplying any necessary documents, and giving notice of at least seven calendar days except in extreme cases such as accidents. If the request is accepted, the exams must stillbe taken within the period set by the School of Tourism and Hotel Management.
Further points regarding assessment
Students who pass the final exam or the final continuous assessment test are entitled to a Level A2 certificate issued by the Language Service and recognised by the Government of Catalonia.
Students who attend the resit exam are not entitled tothe Level A2 certificate in French from the Language Service.
*To pass, students must obtain a pass in the final test. Students must obtain a minimum of 50% in each of the four parts to pass the test and an overall average of 60% to pass.
Assessment Activities
| Title | Weighting | Hours | ECTS | Learning Outcomes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Attitude and participation | 10% | 0 | 0 | 7, 2, 6, 5, 4, 3, 1, 9, 8 |
| Final exam* | 40% | 2.5 | 0.1 | 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 8 |
| Mid-course tests | 12% | 1 | 0.04 | 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 8 |
| Portfolio | 14% | 5 | 0.2 | 7, 2, 6, 5, 4, 3, 1, 9, 8 |
| Writing and speaking activities | 24% | 2 | 0.08 | 7, 2, 6, 5, 3, 1, 9, 8 |
Bibliography
Classbooks German - Tourism
Menschen im Beruf, A2, Editorial Hueber
Studio [21], A2.1, Editorial Cornelsen
Grammar
Level A1 – B1
Andreu Castell, Brigitte Braucek: Gramàtica bàsica de la llengua alemanya – con exercicis, Editorial Idiomas - Hueber
Level A1 – C2
Brigitte Corcoll, Roberto Corcoll: Programm – Gramática A1-C2. Alemán para hispanohablantes - Herder
Brigitte Corcoll, Roberto Corcoll: Programm – Ejercicios A1-C2. Alemán para hispanohablantes - Herder
Andreu Castell: Gramática Lengua Alemana – explicaciones - Editorial Idiomas – Hueber
Andreu Castell, Brigitte Braucek: Gramática Lengua Alemana – ejercicios, Editorial Idiomas - Hueber
On line
Networked multimedia materials for learning.
Websites recommended by the teachers.
Dictionary
Langenscheidts Universalwörterbuch: Diccionario Moderno Alemán Spanisch-Deutsch/Deutsch-Spanisch – Langenscheidt
Langenscheidts Universalwörterbuch: Katalanisch: Katalanisch-Deutsch / Deutsch-Katalanisch - Langenscheidt
Software
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