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Basic Danish
Course code: SCAN1001.
Course unit value: 1.0.
The course aims to: strengthen the individual student’s awareness of different strategies and methods for language learning; be goal-oriented in the work with the language skills: speaking, understanding, writing and reading and with the basic elements pronunciation, vocabulary and grammar; enable the students to express themselves about everyday topics in speech and writing, to understand everyday conversations, and to read texts of a reasonable level of difficulty.
The class work is communicative and task-oriented encouraging the students to be active participants, to take responsibility for their own learning and to see work outside class as an integrated part of the classroom teaching.
Assessment: one unseen three-hour written examination (50%); one oral examination (30%); and course assessment (20%).
Tutor: Jesper Hansen.
Preparatory reading and set texts:
Textbooks
Tutor's own material will be used (textbook tba.), along with various texts, video and audio materials, and exercises made available on the course Moodle site.
Grammar
It is recommended that students have their own copy of R Allan, P Holmes & T Lundskær-Nielsen, Danish. An Essential Grammar (Routledge 2011).
Dictionaries
- Dansk-engelsk ordbog & Engelsk-dansk ordbog (Gyldendal) or similar. Make sure that the dictionary gives you the gender of nouns.
