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Lecturer(s)
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Course content
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Business correspondence (e-mails, orders, offers). Working with devices, operating manuals, occupational safety. Economic sectors, corporate structure, company profile. Company tour, employees in the company, communication, problems and misunderstanding among company employees. Professional qualifications, application, job interview. Standardized final language exam which consists of both the written and the oral part and which also reflects the specific command of language relevant to the student?s professional needs.
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Learning activities and teaching methods
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Monologic (reading, lecture, briefing)
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Learning outcomes
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Based on the characteristics of the entry level of B1+, the aim of the study subject is providing the extension of general vocabulary and its enrichment in terms of the relevant terminology, the practise of the corresponding language means and obtaining the skills (speaking, writing, listening and reading) applicable both in the area of general language as well as the language for specific purposes, expected at the level B2.
Students who successfully complete the course can: Write selected formats of business correspondence; Describe use of an appliance and occupational safety measures; Describe structure and organization of a company; introduce a company; Communicate with supervisors and employees in a company, describe problems and propose basic solutions; Write a motivation letter and introduce themselves at a job interview. Students who successfully complete the course can use the relevant language subskills on B2 level CEFR with the aim to: Understand longer utterances and lectures; Understand articles and reports where the authors express particular opinions and attitudes; Express their opinion about a wide range of profession-related topics; list advantages and drawbacks of certain solutions; Write logically structured argumentation and summarize information from different sources. Students who successfully complete the course: Can handle complex communication situations in a foreign language context; Have sufficient vocabulary range to communicate the field relating issues in connection to general topics; Use the correct language structures.
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Prerequisites
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- for non-native speakers Communicative competence CEFR B1+ in general German.
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Assessment methods and criteria
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Written examination, Home assignment evaluation, Presentation
Completion of all whole-semester tasks defined by the teacher. The final testing will be carried out by means of standardised testing materials and focused on identifying the level of the student´s language competence. Subject completion requirements in case of a distance teaching mode: Based on the teacher´s requirements, the student participates in online lessons according to the schedule and completes the assigned tasks via the online systems Moodle / MS Teams.
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Recommended literature
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Becker, Braunert, Eisfeld. Dialog Beruf 2. Hueber Verlag, 2000.
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Braunert, J., Schlenker, W. Unternehmen Deutsch, Aufbaukurs, Lehr- und Arbeitsbuch. Stuttgart: Klett Verlag, 2005.
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HERING, A., MATUSSEK, M. Geschäftskommunikation. Besser schreiben.. Hueber Verlag, 2007.
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Kernerová, J., Höppnerová, V. Němčina v hospodářství. Praha: Ekopress, 2010.
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Nekovářová, A., Flieger, D. Alltagssprache Deutsch. Plzeň: Fraus, 2003.
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