With a lively mix of personal stories, podcasts, learning material, entertaining games and useful information, this web portal provides helpful information about living and working in Germany, including important information about how to contact administrative offices and counselling services. It also features plenty of German-learning exercises for levels A1 through B2.
The latest annual report by the German Expert Council on Integration and Migration clearly shows that the German healthcare system can’t function without skilled personnel from abroad. What language skills do doctors, nurses and other health professionals need to communicate effectively in the workplace?
In order to attract people from abroad to nursing professions in Germany, the first thing you need is adequate proficiency in the language. There are currently two exams that can be used to prove specialist language skills in the healthcare field: “Goethe-Test PRO Pflege” and “telc Deutsch B1·B2 Pflege”.
Successfully using scenarios in vocational German language teaching in a healthcare setting. How can it work? Five tips for using scenarios in job-related German lessons to practice language and communication skills as an aspect of professional competence. Part One: TIP 1 and 2.
Successfully using scenarios in vocational German language teaching in a healthcare setting. How can it work? Five tips for using scenarios in job-related German lessons to practice language and communication skills as an aspect of professional competence. Part Two: TIP 3–5.
Whether it’s a matter of managing labour migrants’ expectations, helping them "learn how to learn" or alleviating their uncertainties: teachers and trainers of teachers of German as a foreign language can play a vital part in pre-integration, i.e. in developing skills to cope with living in Germany.
The Goethe-Institut's "My Way to Germany" web portal provides German language exercises as well as useful information about living and working in Germany. We show four ways in which teachers of German as a foreign language can use the collection of materials for their teaching and independent learning.
The professional context has become an increasingly important component of German tests. Some of these tests have already become established.
More and more employees require at least one foreign language at their workplace. This requires teaching approaches that take workplace communication into account right from the start.
Potential migrants can learn more about Germany and their job prospects there while still in their home countries – and not only by asking their friends and acquaintances.
