Prerequisites for registration: none

Learning Outcome: Students are able to present theoretical foundations and research methods in the field of written communication and apply these to the analysis and evaluation of concrete texts. Students are able to describe the functions and the style of written language and to critically discuss the standards of writing and text type conventions. Students are able to present theoretical fundamentals and research methods in the field of oral communication and to analyse and classify specific communicative genres in the field of spoken language. Moreover, they are able to outline the differences between written and spoken language and discuss standardisation in the field or oral communication.