Currently, there is a series of regional official kick-off events of the Research Cluster “Excellence in School Education” (LemaS, ‘Leistung macht Schuule’) and the Project Schools in collaboration with the Ministries of Education in all of the Federal States of Germany. These regional meetings are the first opportunity for the researchers of the project and […]
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That’s a happenstance, as George R.R. Martin terms it: On almost the same day on which our special issue on fantasy fiction of the renowned German Teaching English as a Foreign Language Journal (Der fremdsprachliche Unterricht Englisch) came out, George R.R. Martin, world-famous author of The Song of Fire and Ice novels (on which the […]
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German Federal Minister of Education and Research Johanna Wanka invited actors and cooperating partners of the national research cluster “Excellence in School Education“ („Leistung macht Schule“, LemaS) to the kick-off event in Berlin on 30th January 2018. The research of LemaS is aimed at identifying and developing often latent excellency of potentially high-achieving students in […]
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‘Digitalization’ is a term and concept that foregrounds the transformation of formerly analogue, physical signs into discrete digital signals and electronic bits whenever content is presented, represented, communicated or ‘shared’ – one of the standard practices of digital communication. Since in the domain of teaching and learning languages, communicating content between interlocutors in given situations […]
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Sometimes even most successful projects have to re-invent themselves. The German Federal Foreign Languages Contest was first established in 1979, with 133 young students participating; meanwhile, there are more than 15.000 contestants every year. Over all these years, those willing to participate in the first round of the contest were presented with a reading assignment […]
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