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Main Course Description: staffing, materials, calendar, goals, testing & grading, preliminary syllabus, and first assignment. Read this the first quarter you enter first-year German. There may be separate versions for GER 101, 102, 103.
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Grading standards and comparison of scoring guides and A-F / 4-point grading. The major activities of the course are assessed according to the 6-point scoring guide system used in many standards-based educational systems.
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"Get in touch" assignment for GER 101 or GER 102/103. Outline for email message to instructor, with special section for new students. Everyone does this every quarter.
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"Explore your materials" assignment for GER 101 (and new students in GER 102 and GER 103) is a questionnaire that checks whether you know how your materials are organized, and what you think about the components of a language-learning program. With the questionnaire is the scoring guide for the assignment, which you can use as a set of standards to aim at in order to get the score and grade you would like. Do this the first quarter you take first-year German at PSU, or if you are returning to first-year German at PSU and have not been in the program since 2002.
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"Take the WebCAPE on-line placement test" assignment. Assigned early in GER 101 and may be used in other quarters.
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"Rate your proficiency" assignment is a self-evaluation of your own proficiency in speaking and writing. Everyone does this at least once during the year, probably at about the third week of GER 101, in the middle of GER 102, at at the end of GER 103.
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Study Advice and Checklist for Completing a Kontext Unit (.pdf, 28KB) This is advice about what to do for any Kontext.
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Kontext Self-evaluation Regular assignment to be done at the end of each Wie, bitte? Kontext, as assigned by section instructor or course supervisor.
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"Ich beginne jetzt Kontext [X], und…" (.pdf, 68KB). Specifications and Scoring Guide for a writing activity where you email your instructor about starting up a new Kontext and also add your own personal content. May not be required in all sections.
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