Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Wisconsin, 1966. / Typescript. Vita. eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Stanford University, 1984. / Abstracted in DAI-A 45/06, p. 1740, Dec 1984. "Vol. 1"--[t.p.] Includes bibliographical references (leaves 617-622).

<p>  </p> <p>The digital age has profoundly changed the film industry and how consumers are able to access media. To foster language development, this mixed methods study takes advantage of this technological progress and investigates how an audiovisual media-based curriculum can be designed for and implemented in an intermediate German language course. In this context, its effects on students’ listening comprehension competence are analyzed.</p> <p>A qualitative action research (AR) approach was pursued to systematically reflect and act upon the curriculum-related components of the project by taking instructor’s observations and students’ feedback into consideration. A review of the AR cycles concluded the film-based curriculum to be successful in an intermediate language learning context. It provided insight in students’ attitude towards chosen genres, the appropriateness of selected themes, audiovisuals, and tasks as well as suggestions for how a subsequent course should be altered in future iterations. </p> <p>A quantitative analysis consisting of four listening assessments and two language proficiency tests was carried out to examine whether progress of students’ listening comprehension skills can be determined. A comparison of the four listening tests suggests an overall positive trend in class and individual performance. An ANOVA analysis indicates that the four tests were significantly different and that a linear trend exists. However, a negative trend was observed when comparing the A2 and B1 language proficiency test. </p> <p>In conclusion, a film-based curriculum serves as a promising pedagogical approach in an intermediate second language context. Furthermore, the field of SLA would benefit from further research on how the presented approach can be applied to other proficiency levels and/or if the explicit teaching of listening strategies could help students ease observed challenges pertaining to their listening comprehension skills.</p>

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Thesis (MA (Modern Foreign Languages))--University of Stellenbosch, / This study presents conceptions for a German learner's dictionary ("Lemworterbuch"), aimed at the needs of the foreign language learner as recipient. The requirements set and proposals made for such a dictionary are aimed at improving the linguistic competence of the learner when he/she uses the language as recipient, in other words when he/she reads a German text or hears the spoken language (e.g. in conversation, on the radio, television, film etc.). III The target users are persons whose mother tongue is not German, but whose mastery of the language is at a fairly advanced level. Such users, who have mastered the basic grammatical rules of the German language and already have a good basic vocabulary, will nevertheless experience difficulties in using existing German explanatory dictionaries such as DUDEN and WAHRIG. These dictionaries present information in such a complicated way that it remains inaccessible to the average foreign language speaker. The propositions made in this thesis are directed at creating a dictionary that could overcome the existing gap between the bilingual translating dictionary with German as target language and the monolingual explanatory German dictionary. This study proceeds on the assumption that it is impossible to compile a dictionary without the consistent application of theoretically expounded principles (regarding linguistics, typography etc.). The subtlest detail regarding typographical layout is also emphasized, since the presentation of information determines how easily information can be retrieved from the dictionary. Proposals are made for a user friendly arrangement of material, which will enable the user to retrieve desired information easily and immediately. Two language aspects that are of the utmost importance to the recipient, flexion and definition, are examined. The way in which these two aspects are currently dealt with in monolingual dictionaries is investigated. From this investigation it is evident that flexion and defmition are inadequately dealt with for the specific needs of the foreign language learner. Suggestions are made to improve weaknesses and inconsistencies in order to make the dictionary more suitable for the language learner. Finally, the principles required by a German learner's dictionary for recipients are demonstrated by means of various entries. This serves as an example of how the dictionary could finally look. ;The entries are presented in both the printed and the electronic medium. The potential of both these media is utilized to show how the presentation of information can improve the user friendliness and accessibility of the dictionary.

<p>Några språkliga utvecklingstendenser inom tyska språket har belysts.</p><p>Beläggen är hämtade ur tyska tidsskrifter bl a Der Spiegel.</p><p>Följande begrepp har behandlats; Ausklammerung, Ausgliederung, Weil-Sätze - die Wortfolge samt zur Struktur der irrealen Vergleichssätze.</p>

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Ohio State University, 2002. / Title from first page of PDF file. Document formatted into pages; contains xvi, 336 p.); also contains graphics (some col.). Includes abstract and vita. Advisor: Charles R. Hancock, College of Education. Includes bibliographical references (p. 297-302).

The authors' inaugural dissertations, Frankfurt am Main (pt. I-II, Ullmann; pt. III, H. Gotthard). / "Literatur-verzeichnis": p. [361]-372.

Inaug.-Diss.--Freiburg im Breisgau. / Lebenslauf. "Einleitung", p. [3]-5, includes bibliographical references.

Inaug.-Diss.--Munich. / Vita. Bibliography: p. 246-250.