Literacy

The most important contents of the course are

• Recognizing, reading and writing letters/combinations
• Coherent reading of words and sentences
• Building and expanding everyday vocabulary
• Learning strategies

Alpha 3 (Alpha-25-1.2-4133)

Date: April 28 – June 27, 2025
Days: Monday, Wednesday and Friday
Time: 1:45 pm to 4:15 pm
Lessons: 80 lessons, 9 weeks
Price: CHF 1600 for referring agencies CHF, 280 for self-payers
Placement test: Placement test by arrangement

Alpha 2 (Alpha2-25-1.1-4133)

Date: April 28 – June 27, 2025
Days: Monday, Wednesday and Friday
Time: 1:45 pm to 4:15 pm
Lessons: 80 lessons, 9 weeks
Price: CHF 1600 for referring agencies CHF, 280 for self-payers
Placement test: Placement test by arrangement

These courses are aimed at people who speak a foreign language, have no previous school education and have incomplete reading and writing skills or come from countries with a non-Latin alphabet. Course participants are people who can be classified as Alpha 3 / 3+.

The learning objectives of Alpha 3:

• automatically recognize simple and increasingly also compound words
• Read sentences in everyday language reasonably quickly and largely fluently (hardly any hesitation)
• Reading aloud is very rare and only occurs with unknown, long or complex words
• read relatively short, everyday texts fluently
• understand simple everyday texts

Compared to regular courses, this course focuses particularly on supporting slow learners, shows people with learning blocks a different approach to learning and enables individualized teaching.

The course takes place in small groups of at least five and a maximum of eight people in order to better meet the individual needs of the participants.

The course is led by teachers who have completed special training in the field of literacy. The following features characterize the methodological and didactic characteristics:

• The course content is determined by the knowledge gaps of the participants
• Participants experience success at the phonetic level very early on – this awakens the joy of reading and writing
• The sounds are perceived with different senses (auditory, visual, haptic)
• Participants practise accurate listening and clear pronunciation of German speech sounds using speech movement pictures
• By differentiating sounds, subtle differences are perceived and participants are sensitized to spelling
• The placement test for the regular courses takes place towards the end of the course
• The test result then shows whether participation in a regular German course is now possible