„DEUTSCH FÜR AKADEMISCHE ZWECKE“ IM BACHELOR-STUDIUM AN DER UNIVERSITÄT IOANNINA IN GRIECHENLAND: ERGEBNISSE DER BEFRAGUNG DER STUDIERENDEN ZUM ERLERNEN DER DEUTSCHEN FACHSPRACHE English Title: “GERMAN FOR ACADEMIC PURPOSES” IN BACHELOR STUDIES AT THE UNIVERSITY OF IOANNINA IN GREECE: RESULTS OF A QUESTIONNAIRE ON STUDENTS’ VIEWS ON LEARNING GERMAN SCIENTIFIC TERMINOLOGY

Abstract

In the faculties of medicine and psychology at the University of Ioannina, Greece, German courses are held for learning specific, academic terminology. In addition, language courses for German as a foreign language (levels A1 to B1) are offered during Bachelor studies. Due to the increasing interest of students in learning German language for special, academic purposes, a questionnaire survey was carried out to discover the opinions and needs of the students regarding the methodological process of teaching German for academic purposes and the difficulties in learning the German terminology. A questionnaire survey with 135 undergraduate students-participants from all faculties of the University of Ioannina, Greece was conducted. The participants were asked whether they considered German technical language to be important for their studies, why they wanted to learn German terminology, which year of their Bachelor-studies would be the most appropriate for them to learn it in, and which teaching materials were considered as the more effective for learning. In addition, the respondents were asked to mention difficulties in learning German for academic purposes and to make suggestions that could help enrich methodologically and didactically the German-terminology courses.

Keywords

• german technical language
• german for academic purposes
• views from students in greece