Praxis II German: Content Knowledge Exam
This test will assess you are ability to teach beginning German. You will be given two hours to complete this 120 multiple-choice question exam on printed and recorded materials in German. Your knowledge of German culture and German language skills will be assessed. In the first, third and, fourth sections of the exam all questions and answers will be in German. The first part of the structure of language section, and the entire interpretive listening section are all based on audio recordings in German. You will be asked to identify, correct and describe speech errors in Section II, Part A of non-native German speakers. In section II, Part B you will be asked to identify, correct, and describe errors found in writing examples of non-native German speakers. There will be 23 questions covering German cultural perspectives, 31 questions covering interpretive reading of German, 34 questions regarding the structure of the German language, and 32 questions in the interpretive German listening section.
Cultural Perspectives
This section of the exam will assess your knowledge of lifestyles and German society, literature and the arts, geography and, contemporary issues in history of the German culture. The questions for this portion of the exam are written in German.
Interpretive Reading
This section of the exam will assess your knowledge of implied content, actual content, and organization of a reading selection that is written in German. Reading selections for this portion of the exam will cover a variety of topics and, are at various levels of difficulty. These readings will be derived from literature, advertisements, the internet, or periodicals.
Structure of the Language (Grammatical Accuracy)
This section of the exam will assess your ability to analyze the speech, writing, and grammar from audio and written examples in German. In the grammar analysis section, you will be asked to complete short paragraphs and sentences when phrases and words have been deleted. Under the language analysis section you will be asked to affirm your knowledge of German vocabulary, morphology and language structure. In the writing analysis section you will be asked to correct and identify errors in word choice, spelling, capitalization, and punctuation of written passages that are printed in the test booklet. In the speech analysis section, you will listen to an audio recording in German and identifyerrors in pronunciation, grammar, false cognates, and the usage of slang.
Interpretive Listening
In this section of the exam you will be asked to listen to audio recordings of short conversations, short narration's, long narration's and dialogues by native German speakers. All of the questions in this section of the test will assess your knowledge of conversational German, comprehension of German cultural information, vocabulary, idiomatic expressions, and phonemic discrimination.
