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「 Thematic Units 」を使ったカリキュラム


< German AP Language and Culture Framework >
ドイツ語のカリキュラムをみてみると新しいAP Language and Culture Frameworkがよくわかります. http://apcentral.collegeboard.com/apc/public/repository/AP_GermanLangCED_Effective_Fall_2011.pdf


- German Rationale for Course Revisions 2011 [] - German Curriculum Framework 2011 (Video) [] - German Implications for Class Instructions 2011 []

< Learning Objectives for Spoken Interpersonal Communication >
例 Primary Objective: The student engages in SPOKEN interpersonal communications. ▶The student engages in the oral exchange of information, opinions, and ideas in a variety of time frames in formal situations. ▶The student engages in the oral exchange of information, opinions, and ideas in a variety of time frames in informal situations. ▶The student elicits information and clarifies meaning by using a variety of strategies. ▶The student states and supports opinions in oral interactions. ▶The student initiates and sustains interaction through the use of various verbal and nonverbal strategies. <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">▶The student understands a variety of vocabulary, including idiomatic and culturally appropriate expressions. <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">▶The student uses a variety of vocabulary, including idiomatic and culturally appropriate expressions on a variety of topics. <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">▶The student self-monitors and adjusts language production. <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">▶The student demonstrates an understanding of the features of target culture communities (e.g., geographic, historical, artistic, social, or political). <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">▶The student demonstrates knowledge and understanding of content across disciplines.

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">< Achievement Level Descriptions for Spoken Interpersonal Communication >
<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">「Achievement Level 5」の例 <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">(a) Interaction. <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Students at Achievement Level 5 initiate, maintain, and close conversations on familiar topics in a culturally appropriate manner most of the time. They understand and usually use culturally appropriate expressions and gestures. <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">(b) Strategies. <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Students at this level use a variety of communication strategies as necessary to maintain communication (e.g., circumlocution, paraphrasing, requesting clarification or information). <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">They often use questions to maintain the conversation and use context to deduce meaning of unfamiliar words. They often recognize errors and self-correct. <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">(c) Opinions. <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">They state opinions and demonstrate some ability to support opinions on topics of personal interest. <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">(d) Language structures. <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">These students use a variety of simple and compound sentences and some complex sentences on familiar topics, and they narrate and describe in all time frames, with a few errors that do not impede comprehensibility. <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">(e) Vocabulary. <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">They understand and use vocabulary on a variety of familiar topics, including some beyond those of personal interest. <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">(f) Register. <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Their choice of register is usually appropriate for the audience, and its use is consistent despite occasional errors. <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">(g) Pronunciation. <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Their pronunciation and intonation patterns, pacing, and delivery are comprehensible to an audience unaccustomed to interacting with language learners; their pronunciation is consistent, with few errors that do not impede comprehensibility. <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">(h) Cultures, connections, and comparisons. <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">These students identify the relationships among products, practices, and perspectives in the target culture(s) and compare them with their own culture. They compare and contrast a variety of geographic, historical, artistic, social, or political features of target culture communities.