Teaching German grammar in a University Seminar

Prerequisite is that students have a grammar book of German at their disposal during their home preparation. At seminar lessons they work with worksheets. Every sheet represents a content whole. At the same time it is a basis for linguistic analysis and source material for exercises. The aim of teaching is to deepen student's knowledge of grammar so that they would be able to formulate their economic needs in writing in a relatively acceptable level of accuracy. Some ways of teaching process are only mentioned, some are described in detail. The teaching focuses on linguistic phenomena specific for German and even in these cases the teaching process and its claims are described in detail and in variant approaches. The checking of students' activity is also mentioned. The paper is closed by several remarks on evaluating acquired knowledge of grammar phenomena. (C) 2012 Published by Elsevier Ltd.