Orenburg state university

OSU Trains to Think in German

Seminar "Speak and Argue Convincingly!" took place in OSU for students of German Philology and Teaching Methodology Department.

It was organized within the program of Robert Bosch Fund existing in OSU last twelve years. Fund’s lecturers — director of OSU German Language Center Irina Gulyaeva and lecturer of Foreign Languages Department of Sumy State Pedagogical University named after Makarenko (Ukraine) Natalya Shevtsova set goal on teaching students how to speak out freely before public and to present own works in German. The seminar took place in the form of a dialogue.

Students expressed all advantages and disadvantages of online education, answered questions, argued and corrected each other in German.

Moritz Mayer — scientist of Psychology and Dynamic Physiology Faculty of Hamburg University (Germany) also participated. Last year he conducted similar classes for lecturers together with the colleagues. According to his opinion OSU students have good skills of German communication and successfully performed all tasks.