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11.04.17 | Sprachenzentrum der TU Darmstadt | Prof. Dr. Britta Hufeisen/ Dr. Chris Merkelbach

The Language Resource Center at TU Darmstadt - SPZ


Overview:

1. What is the language resource center (SPZ)?

2. Where can I find the SPZ?

3. What is UNIcert®?

4. From placement test to certificate

5. What else we do

6. Equipment(Ausstattung)


What is the Language Resource Center (SPZ)?

The SPZ…

1. … is a centrally organized institute at the TU Darmstadt.

2. … offers language courses.

3. … administers language tests.

4. … comprises the Writing Center (SchreibCenter)

5. … and the Center for Intercultural Competence (ZIKK).

6. … facilitates the placement of Tandem partners and

7. … offers a language café (Sprachencafé)


Where can I find the SPZ?

Contact information:S1|03 17Hochschulstr. 164289 Darmstadt Tel+49 6151 16-21144Fax +49 6151 [email protected]://www.spz.tu-darmstadt.de

Operating hours (Studienbüro):

Mo. - Fr. 10:00a.m. - 12:00 p.m.

Mo. - Do. 3:00p.m. - 4:00 p.m.

mailto:[email protected]


Where can I find the SPZ?


What is UNIcert®?

1. Standardized niveau of university language education

2. UNIcert® -accredication valid for 3 years

3. Seamless continuation of language education at other univ.

4. UNIcert®-levels (Common European Framework of Reference for Languages)

5. Testing procedures: (Modalitäten)

a. Cumulation

b. Exam


From placement test to language certificate

1. Online placement test - first semester week

2. Course registration according to placement test result

(UNIcert®/ no UNIcert®)

3. Course attendance in accordance with TUCaN

4. separate registration via TUCaN (module-course-exam or

attendance certificate)



1. Midterm and/or final exam, results posted via TUCaN

2. Checklist - UNIcert®-exam

a. Have all requirements been fulfilled?

b. Exam registration form- complete and submitted on-

time

c. Exam dates (plural!) are kept


Language exams

1. TOEIC

2. DAAD

3. UNIcert®


ZIKK – Center for Intercultural Competence

1. Interkultural trainings.

2. Workshops, film events, projects.

3. Course offerings in French, Chinese, and

English.

4. Course expansion planned

5. Contact:Dr. Chris Merkelbach,S1|03 314a,[email protected]...


Sprachencafé and Tandem

• Language learning in a relaxed atmosphere:

Thursdays 5:15 p.m. – 8:00 p.m., S1|03 room 9

• Tandem partner placement:

[email protected] http://

www.interkulturelle-kompetenz.tu-darmstadt.de/tandem/anmeldeformular/anmel

dung_tandem.de.jsp

http://www.interkulturelle-kompetenz.tu-darmstadt.de/tandem/anmeldeformular/anmeldung_tandem.de.jsp




What else do we do? – Research projects

• Compilation of calibrated placement tests

(Dr. Cornelia Personne)

• Multilingualism

(Prof. Dr. Britta Hufeisen, Dr. Chris Merkelbach)

• Mealinguistic awareness and Learning of Prepositions

by Multilingual learners of English and German

(Dr. Martha Gibson)


SPZ Library (LLMS)

The LLMS contains over 3,000 books, magazines and

journals having to do with various themes related to language

acquisition in various languages.

Where?:S1|03 Raum 13


Thank you for your attention!

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Das SchreibCenter


Mentoring at the Writing Center (SchreibCenter)


Services available at the SchreibCenter

• Mentoring: face-to-face and online

• owl: online writing lab

• Courses and workshops

• SchreibCafé

• „Lange Nacht der aufgeschobenen Hausarbeiten“


• Individual appointments (ca. 45 min/per appt.)

• In German and English => for English and German

• Drop-by or by appointment

• Our tutors: trained students from various faculties throughout the university



Advantages from mentoring at the SchreibCenter:

• Longer seminar texts, Bachelor and Master thesis

• Protocols, thesis paper as well as other university-related texts

• Feedback – text excerpts

• References to further information (books, Internet, workshops, etc.)



What mentoring cannot fulfill:

• text correction i.e. grammar service

• mentoring in technical language

• reading of entire (longer) texts (i.e. thesis)



Mentoring at the SchreibCenter – where und when?

Open office hours:Raum S1 03 │52c

Monday 12:00 – 14:00 Uhr17:00 – 19:00 Uhr

Wednesday 09:00 – 12:00 UhrThursday 12:00 – 14:00 UhrFriday 12:00 – 14:00 Uhr

or by appointment

Contact:

[email protected]


online writing lab

www.owl.tu-darmstadt.de

owl offers… broad-based consultation advice having to so with writing as

well as extensive material dealing with various genres / writing assignments.


Skype-Mentoring by appointmentSkype-Name: schreibberatung

Mentoring via Skype


When:Last Wednesdayin each month von15:00 bis 19:00 Uhr

Where:SchreibCenter (S1 03│52b-c)

SchreibCafé


Center for Intercultural Competency (ZIKK)

• Sprachencafé:

Donnerstags 17:15 – 20:00, S1|03 Raum 11

• Tandempartner placement: [email protected]

• Intercultural training with focus on China and Asia

http://www.interkulturelle-kompetenz.tu-darmstadt.de


Wir wünschen viel Erfolg im Studium und würden uns freuen, euch bald im SchreibCenter begrüßen zu dürfen!

We wish you success with your studies and hope to greet you soon in the SchreibCenter!

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