Course information
The main contents of the course are:
- Recognize, read and write letters/connections
- Coherent reading of words and sentences
- Development and expansion of everyday vocabulary
- Learning strategies
Alpha 3 (Alpha-24-1.1-4133)
Date: April 24 – June 28, 2024
Days: Monday, Wednesday and Friday
Time: 1.45 pm to 4.15 pm
Lessons: 80 lessons, 9 weeks
Price: CHF 1360 for referring agencies. CHF 272 for self-paying students (with 80% discount from the canton)
Level test: Placement test by arrangement
These courses are aimed at foreign language speakers who are unaccustomed to school and have incomplete reading and writing skills/ come from countries with a non-Latin alphabet. Course participants are people who can be classified in the Alpha 3 / 3+ levels.
The learning objectives of Alpha 3:
- recognize simple and increasingly also compound words automatically
- read sentences in everyday language reasonably quickly and largely fluently (hardly any stuttering)
- reading aloud is very rare and only occurs with unknown, long or complex words
- read quite short texts in everyday language fluently as a whole
- understand simple everyday texts
Compared to standard courses, this course focuses in particular on supporting slow learners, showing people with learning blocks a different approach to learning and enabling 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 taught by teachers who have completed specialist 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
- The participants experience success at the phonetic level very early on – this awakens the joy of reading and writing
- The sounds are perceived through different senses (auditory, visual, haptic)
- The participants use speech movement pictures to practise hearing and clearly pronouncing German speech sounds
- Through sound differentiation, 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