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Am Ende des Kurses sollen die Studierenden in der Lage sein, Fachinformationen im Bereich Nachhaltigkeit mehrsprachig auf Deutsch und Englisch zu rezipieren und zu diskutieren. Dabei können sie flüssig zwischen den Sprachen wechseln, Informationen zwischen Sprachen und Kulturen mitteln und sie haben Strategien für den Transfer zwischen Sprachen erworben. Zudem haben sie ein Bewusstsein darüber, wie sie nachhaltig ihre Sprach- und Kommunikationskompetenz pflegen und weiter ausbauen können.

By the end of the course, the students are expected to be able to receive and discuss specific information related to the field of sustainability multilingually in German and English. They can fluently switch between languages, mediate information between languages and cultures and have acquired strategies for transfer between languages. The students will have increased their awareness of how to maintain and further develop their language and communication skills in a sustainable way.

Objectives

After this integrated skills course, students will have developed their listening, note-taking, vocabulary development, oral communication and academic writing. In addition, they will have developed their search strategies and reading skills, enabling them to summarize texts and to use information from texts both orally and in writing. Students will also have learned digital strategies to support their ongoing studies in English and utilised formal and informal speaking through small group discussions and presentations.