Target audience
Primary illiterates are people who have never learned to read and write or who have only attended school for a few years and have therefore not been able to acquire reading and writing skills.
The literacy course can be attended by migrants due to a lack of or insufficient literacy skills.
Placement procedure
Whether participation in a literacy course is necessary is determined in the placement procedure for the integration courses.
Number of hours per week
Maximum number of lessons per week: 25 lessons
As in all integration courses, the Alpha courses also consist of several consecutive course sections, each comprising 300 lessons.
Literacy courses consist of a

• Basic Alpha course with 300 lessons
• Advanced Alpha course A with 300 lessons
• Advanced alpha course B with 300 units

The course can be offered as

• advanced alpha course C with a further 300 units as a refresher course.

can be continued. This is usually followed - i.e. after 1200 units - by the

• orientation course with 100 UE

follows.
Number of participants
Based on previous experience in literacy work with migrants, a maximum number of 16 participants is considered optimal.
Eligibility for participation
As a rule, participants who have not attended school, have not had any “pen” experience in their lives and at the same time have no knowledge of German and only a very low level of language (learning) awareness in their own mother tongue are eligible.
Final test
After the specified teaching units (TU), the course participant takes a final test. The language level A2 to B1 according to CEFR (Common European Framework of Reference for Languages) with the scaled language test “Deutsch-Test für Zuwanderer” should be successfully completed. The orientation course concludes with a nationwide test on the topics of “Politics in Democracy”, “History and Responsibility” and “People and Society”.