Hausa Language 3600-5-AF2-JH2.2
The aim of the course is to improve receptive and productive language skills at the lower intermediate level (B1) and to produce the texts conforming to the rules of the grammar . Students extend the vocabulary and increase language proficiency through listening of Hausa recordings, reading short stories and dialogues, discussing various topics, modeling contextually accurate dialogues and composing written and oral texts. The course also aims at providing the knowledge about typical areas of communication in the Hausa language, that include social and family context, everyday life in Northern Nigeria, and traditional occupations.
Type of course
Prerequisites (description)
Learning outcomes
knowledge:
- student constructs utterances and understands the utterances in Hausa on a fairly good level
- student is able to distinguish between colloquial and standard Hausa
- student masters the new language material by memorization of new vocabulary and word complexes like sayings, idioms, and compound constructions
skills:
- student comes to learn the history and orthographic rules of Hausa in the Roman script (boko)
- student masters the new vocabulary in various contexts of its use
- depending on himself student learns the meaning of words, making use of their contexts and principles of the word formation
- student is able to shape questions in connection with a new text and to answer them
- using new vocabulary and grammatical rules student is able to compose texts (essays) on a given subject.
competences:
- through the knowledge of language student penetrates the peculiarities of the social and cultural life of the Hausa people
- the knowledge of language entitles student to undertake serious field research in preparation of the B.A. thesis
- it will allow student for an Africanistic steering in the future professional activity (journalism, diplomacy, relief organisations, missionary activity, and so on).
Assessment criteria
Continuous assessment
Attendance control
Written tests and homework
Final written assessment
Bibliography
Roxana Ma Newman, Alhaji Maina Gimba, Hausa a dace: A Guide to Functional Hausa, Indiana University 1998.
H. Jungraithmayr, W.J.G. Möhlig, Einführung in die Hausa-Sprache, Berlin 1976
R.Cowan & R.Schuh Spoken Hausa, New York 1976
N.Pawlak, Język hausa, Warszawa 1998
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