 Welcome from Marburg University. Behind me, you can see typical scenarios in our award-winning teaching and learning concept of the inverted classroom in its mastery variant. Digital content for self-guided learning in Phase 1 and collaborative work and practicals in the subsequent in-class phase. And in between, we have our worksheets with which you can show mastery. But let's now concentrate on the language and linguistics class. And this is what I will do in my short overview. I will first introduce you to the content of this class, we'll then briefly talk about our teaching concept and we'll then end up looking at the class requirements. The main goal of this class is to make sure that the first-term MA students of our international master program, linguistics and web technology have all attained the same level in linguistics before they embark on further linguistics classes. Coming from all over the world, this is necessary. Their linguistic backgrounds have shown to be too different. And this class, which is partly a repetition but also introduces some new concepts necessary for our MA, aims at reducing these differences. The class consists of 13 units and is subdivided into several parts. Three units provide an overview. An overview of those concepts and approaches needed for our master program. Then we have a section on phonetics and phonology, where we look at sound changes and practice our background in phonetic transcription. This is necessary because our language web projects involve sound analyses and careful phonetic judgments. The structural part of this class, that is morphology and syntax, is a repetition for some of our students but totally new for others, depending on their background. And I can tell you we will practice a lot in this section of the class. The semantics and pragmatics part, which will be taken up and deepened by another class in our MA program, rounds off the central parts of this class. And then we have two flanking units, the omnipresent class evaluation, where you can give us your opinion about the class and the introductory unit, where our teaching concept is explained in detail. The inverted classroom mastery model. This educational model swaps the two central phases of teaching and learning. Content delivery and content acquisition are now self-guided and online, and the subsequent in class phase is dedicated to practicing and deepening. In other words, we supply you with the content via the e-learning units on the Virtual Linguistics Campus. You go through the content on your own and then we will meet in class to practice and solve questions. And the content you are given in phase one is a combination of almost everything, highly interactive multimedia content, the so-called virtual sessions, e-lectures, that is video clips that have an average length of about 15 minutes and can be accessed from the virtual sessions or separately via our YouTube channel. And last but not least, our workbooks, they supply you with a text material and give you the opportunity to supplement the text with your own notes from the online content. To make sure that you have mastered the content prior to the in-class meeting, we have added one formative test per e-learning unit, the so-called mastery worksheet. If you pass this test, you have demonstrated mastery and we know that you will attend the in-class meeting well prepared. If not, you can do the test again until you pass or something we do not really appreciate, you can attend the in-class meeting without special preparation. With this award-winning inverted classroom mastery model, we make sure that a maximum number of students attend the in-class meetings well prepared. And if this is so, we practice and guide you through the exercises we collaboratively solve in class. By the way, the average mastery level in our own campus classes is around 70%. That is, 70% of our students attend the in-class phase well prepared, a really high value. To summarize, our educational scenarios consist of two phases, the self-guided online phase of content delivery and content acquisition, the in-class phase of practicing, deepening, et cetera, and in between we have our formative tests, the so-called mastery worksheets. Finally, let's talk about the class requirements. This class involves four credits. In Europe, credits are awarded in accordance with the European Credit Transfer System referred to as ECTS points, where one ECTS is awarded for a workload of roughly 25 to 30 hours. The four ECTS of our language and linguistics class will be awarded for regular participation and involvement, plus the following tasks and contributions. We expect that you submit 13 mastery worksheets, the formative tests of our inverted classroom mastery model, two graded worksheets, and in addition to this we want you to write a final exam, which is of course an electronic exam. And if you are a remote online student, that is, if you want to take this class totally online, in that case you have to submit a term paper. Well, that's basically it. I hope that I could provide you with the necessary information about your language and linguistics class. I'm sure that you will enjoy the class and that you will like our teaching concept. So I'm looking forward to welcoming you on the virtual linguistics campus and to seeing you in our lively in-class meetings. Until then, have a nice time.