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This course is designed to help participants of all teaching areas acquire basic proficiency in communication within culturally significant contexts:

• • Improve participants to develop their language skills, especially oral fluency, and enable them to incorporate German into daily life or even classroom situations
  • An integrated approach to teaching language skills with emphasis on vocabulary acquisition and basic grammatical structures
  • Enhancing language abilities and skills extends beyond the realm of language studies; it intersects with various other disciplines. Language serves as a pivotal tool facilitating learning across diverse fields of study
  • Promote a European dimension in education to raise awareness and understanding of other cultures and countries

Learning Outcomes

The participants are expected to:

• • Acquire German language fundamentals;
  • Acquire basic cultural knowledge of German-speaking countries;
  • Have a sense of German geography, society, sites of memory, historical figures, and culture-specific products such as fashion and cuisine;
  • Develop the inter-human understanding between peoples across borders beyond one’s cultural area, and between peoples of other cultures within one’s borders due to globalisation, which is becoming increasingly important;
  • Mastery of languages widens the horizons of experience and is important for one’s mobility and professional qualifications;
  • Contact with other languages helps develop an understanding of other cultures and reflect on one’s own language and culture;
  • Enhance communicative, social and soft skills;
  • Transfer and share core values, experiences and effective teaching practices with other teachers and colleagues;
  • Provide teachers with an insight into Porto and Portuguese culture and heritage.