Approval language
This overview is intended to enable accessibility or low-barrier approval for as many students as possible for content that is conveyed via language. In the context of higher education, a certain level of language proficiency can be assumed internally. However, to ensure approval of the content to be taught, it is helpful for many students if a few points are taken into account.
1. Excursus - Simple language and easy language
The need to consider the level of the language used becomes clear when you look at the discourse surrounding so-called simple language and easy language. For some target groups, the standard language used in everyday life is very difficult to understand. Perhaps this also applies to students in some cases? With the information provided here, we would like to sensitise you to possible hurdles and obstacles in our everyday language.
Easy Language has a lower level of difficulty than Simple Language. The target group for plain language is expected to have a basic level of prior knowledge, which is why the language style is more complex than plain language. Easy Language uses simple, short, familiar words and explains technical and foreign terms.
Easy language: level A1; target group also includes mentally impaired staff, people.
Simple language: Level A2-B1 (depends on target group); broad target group, especially staff, people with limited but expandable reading skills.