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Emergency vocabulary in Slovak

Date of Publication

2021

Target Group

Students

Domain Area

Medicine & Nursing

Learning Scenario

Autonomous learning

Target Language

Slovakian

Language of Instruction

German

CEFR level

A1
A2
B1

Type of Material

Reference resources (online Dictionaries/ grammar guides/phrasebooks)

Linguistic Features

Vocabulary

Skills

Listening
Speaking
Reading

Description

The Business series is a special advanced course for business. You get everything you need to communicate fluently in a foreign language in business or work-related situations.
The language instructional activity is suitable for both beginners and more advanced learners of the Slovakian language, as it introduces basic communicational terms. Since the language of instruction is German, a basic knowledge of German is required in order to fully master the material.
This educational resource is great for individual language learning, but can also be used for classroom teaching, where the teacher can make learners practice the terms the video offers with additional tasks. Although the emphasis is on vocabulary development, the terms also add some grammatical knowledge.
Learning basic expressions is the key to quick success because leaners can easily start communicating with each other and can be motivated to further improve their vocabulary in order to be able to communicate in a more subtle way. As a follow-up exercise they could speak with each other and share their knowledge, and also add some more vocabulary.

Case study

The material would either be tested in classroom context or as a take-home project. Learners would start by memorizing words, phrases and practical expressions that can be used in everyday life. The prosody of the language could be studied at the first time, and learners can not only listen and repeat the expressions, but can write them out in their vocabulary with the meaning in their own mother tongue. The number of participants in the group is not relevant. The tasks can be used both as partner work and group work.
The aim of the task is: the students should get to know the basic vocabulary Emergency medicine of that can use fixed collocations.

Guidelines

Lead-in activity/warmer: Eliciting information on learners’ knowledge of Slovakian vocabulary. They may come up with some words or expressions, or some international vocabulary that would motivate the group members to use Slovakian.
Step 1: Pre-watching activity. Tell the students that they are going to do some activities that teach Slovakian language. The activities allow students to recognize and practice basic conversational terms. Students do the preparation task first and are instructed to do some of the activities.
Step 2: Doing the activities: reading, listening and repeating some basic words and expressions. Students get knowledge about the most useful phrases of elementary communication.
Step 3: Students give feedback on their success. They are instructed to repeat the terms loudly, then they can write them in their vocabulary, and by analyzing the terms they may learn some new words and basic grammar.
Step 4: Learners can work in pairs. They can ask and answer the questions they have learnt and can react to the phrases. After collecting some more vocabulary they would be able to communicate meaningfully.

Review

Category
Rate
Comprehensive approach
Capacity to match the needs of lecturers and students

4

Added value
The provided tangible improvements

3

Motivation enhancement
The capacity to motivate students to improve their language skills

4

Innovation
Effectiveness in introducing innovative, creative and previously unknown approaches to LSP learning

3

Transferability
Measurement of the transferable potential and possibility to be a source of further capitalisation/application for other language projects in different countries

4

Skills assessment and validation
Availability of appropriate tools for lecturers to monitor students’ progress and for students to assess own progress and to reflect on learning

3

Adaptability
Flexibility of the contents and possibilities for the LSP lecturers to adapt the contents to their and to students’ need

4

Usability
Assess the technical usability from the point of view of the lecturer and the student

3

Accessibility
Assess the accessibility from the point of view of the lecturer and the student

3

Comments:
The material is informative for both students and lecturers because students can work individually and with the help of the teacher. The instructional language of the material is German, but it is clear and understandable. It is possible to adopt the contents to students’ need because the material can function as a teaching source and can be supplemented or accompanied by other sources or material.
The specialist vocabulary enriches knowledge about Emergency Medicine. Unfortunately, there are no tasks for reading texts.
The page is easily accessed for those who want to learn Slovakian with the help of the internet. It is also available in PDF format.
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