DLL 3

• Participants know the elements of the German language and how the form and function of linguistic parts work together in communication.
• Participants know the semantic classes, the nouns and functions of the article as well as the formal properties of gender, number, and case.
• Participants can explain the connection between the preposition and the following case.
• Participants are familiar with important models for representing sentence structure and how the parts of a sentence are related to each other.
• Participants know why standard pronunciation is important and which important features characterize German intonation.
• Participants can compare the phonetic system of German with that of the first language of their students and anticipate potential pronunciation difficulties.