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Photos in the Foreign Language Classroom

21. May 2019
Cultures, Language Learning and Communication, School and Education
Wolfgang Hallet
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For quite a while it has been generally acknowledged in foreign language pedagogy that the vast majority of communicative acts is no longer solely verbal; rather, most of our communication and most cultural discourses are characterized by multimodality, using a broad range of semiotic modes, and visual languages in particular. In his book on multimodality […]

28. February 2019
Cultures, Language Learning and Communication, School and Education
Wolfgang Hallet
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When it comes to multilingualism, it is not a West African country like Ghana that comes to mind easily. This is no coincidence: Anglophone Africa is not really a focus of English studies and certainly not of English language pedagogy. While postcolonial literary and cultural studies have dealt intensively with the great representatives of Anglophone […]

28. February 2019
Cultures, Language Learning and Communication, New Publications
Wolfgang Hallet
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In December 2018, two issues of online journals were published co-edited by me, one special issue of the Journal for Intercultural Language Learning (in German) on the topic “Space and Foreign Language Learning” and a special issue of the cultural studies journal on_culture on Surveillance Cultures (in English). And in May 2019 a new volume […]

Silke Braselmann’s great PhD thesis on school shootings in the United States titled Approaching the Inexplicable. The Fictional Dimension of the School Shooting Discourse has won her the German renowned, very prominent prize of the Koerber Foundation 2018 for PhD theses. Dr. Wolfgang Schaeuble, President of the German Federal Parliament, was this year’s patron of […]

26. October 2018
Cultures, Language Learning and Communication
Alexander Hallet
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It is almost impossible to imagine everyday life without music in all its forms, facets and functions. It is not only a realm for music lovers, but present almost everywhere: in the private home and in every car, in public places, live or recorded; in the supermarket as well as in pubs or clubs, on […]

6. September 2018
Cultures, Language Learning and Communication, Literature and Film
Verena Fries
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After working for a year in a more coursebook-oriented way, I felt like getting a little more creative again. I had survived the first year in the teaching profession. Now I wanted to try out how I could plan my lessons using the competence task and find out whether my classroom work could benefit from […]

The current debate about factual and counter-factual assertions and news suggests that there is a distinguishable boundary between fact and fiction. However, things are more complicated than this, despite all the need to adhere to facts and to insist on the value of truthfulness. Societies are always also built on cultural imaginations, which to a […]

31. May 2018
Cultures, Language Learning and Communication
Jesse Jacovini
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When we consider the proliferation and influence of English-language media, culture, business and politics we can see that English is a global language. In terms of numbers, Mandarin varieties likely outweigh English users, but the sheer global expanse of English is undeniable. And, increasingly, the global population is migrating. Currently, we are seeing levels of […]