Improving teacher competence is important in learning German. To improve the quality of learning German, the Devotion Team at the Department of German Language Education FBS-UNY held a Classroom Action Research training for German language teachers who are members of the Indonesian German Teacher Association (IGBJI). This Community Service Activity is realized in the form of a 32-hour training (workshop) which is divided into 3 meeting sessions. First session contains an explanation of the theories and methods of Classroom Action Research. Meanwhile, second session contains mentoring activities to find research ideas, and last Session contains presentations of research proposals from selected participants. This training activity is carried out entirely online using the Zoom application. Classroom Action Research training activities can be carried out properly and get the results as planned. The attendance rate of registered participants is in the good category. Average attendance of 50 people per session (69.4%) of the total 72 registrants. Participation of participants in the discussion is also good. At the end of the activity, 23 Classroom Action Research proposals were produced. Thus, German teachers are able to apply the results of this activity by observing the state of learning German in their respective schools and taking scientific steps to carry out action research.
This study aims to identify intercultural utterances in German course books for higher education. The data sources were German course books, namely Studio d A1, A2, and B2 as primary course books. The data were collected through marked listening and reading techniques. They were analyzed by means of content analysis and extralingual correspondence. The findings are as follows. First, the intercultural themes are relatedto food, clothing, jobs, marriage systems, perceptions of time, politeness, traditions, regulations, and languages. Second, the factors causing differences include seasons, staple foods, ideologies (religions), language systems, welfare levels, and nations’ histories. Third, the factor of understanding of the German culture is an important foundation tounderstand intercultural utterances.
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