How can rhetorical competence be trained at university? Reflections on the seminar “Rhetorical skills in German as a foreign language”

Gabriela Gorąca-Sawczyk

doi:10.19195/0435-5865.145.13

Vol. 145 (2020)

How can rhetorical competence be trained at university? Reflections on the seminar “Rhetorical skills in German as a foreign language”

Gabriela Gorąca-Sawczyk

http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2946-2236

https://doi.org/10.19195/0435-5865.145.13

Pages: 145-162

PDF (Język Polski)

Abstract

The paper shows how rhetoric training and the development of rhetorical competence in German as a foreign language can be achieved at university level. The concept of the ‘presentation’ as an example of a type of speech and ‘rhetorical competence’ will be defined. Finally, some reflections on the seminar “Rhetorical skills in German as a foreign language” from the lecturer’s and stu-dents’ perspective will be given.

Keywords:

rhetorical competence, rhetoric training, German as a foreign language

Published

08-03-2021

Citation rules

Gorąca-Sawczyk, G. (2021). How can rhetorical competence be trained at university? Reflections on the seminar “Rhetorical skills in German as a foreign language”. Germanica Wratislaviensia, 145, 145–162. https://doi.org/10.19195/0435-5865.145.13