It is a well-known fact and common observation that quite a large number of people in Germany and other German-speaking countries use English in their daily lives for various purposes, professionally, in their leisure time, and also in the (maybe bilingual or multilingual) family. However, there has been a substantial rise and increase in the […]
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In the middle of 2023, the second phase of the big nationwide educational project “Leistung macht Schule” (LemaS; ‘talent development in schools’) started, whose program is the transfer of the knowledge and the experiences with talent development gained in the first phase (2018-2023) into more than 1.000 schools. In the first phase, the project led […]
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The cultural developments of the recent past and the present, which are indicated by keywords such as globalization, migration and digitization, are characterized by an enormous dynamic and bring with them impactful social and cultural transformations. These are accompanied by numerous developments and innovations in cultural studies and cultural theory which cultural education in the […]
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The issue of professionalisation of English Language Teaching (ELT) remains underexplored in academic discourse. This is why, together with my colleague Andrzej Cirocki from the University of York, UK, I have written a timely guide to professional teacher development in ELT, showing how teacher educators and classroom practitioners can develop their practice. The book, published […]
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Since the national research network “Leistung macht Schule” (“Excellence in School Education”) started its work in 2018, we have been working with teams of English teachers (English as a Foreign Language, EFL) at 18 schools in the English subproject. With them, we are testing whether and in what way complex tasks can serve to identify, […]
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It is a very encouraging experience in the research network “Leistung macht Schule” (Excellence in School Education) that many schools in the English as a Foreign Language project and in other subprojects are not confined to the comparatively narrow framework of individual research and development projects. Rather, they simultaneously intend to develop their whole school […]
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The German national research project “Leistung macht Schule” (LemaS – Excellence in School Education) has set itself the goal of researching ways of recognizing learners’ talents and promoting them that are new in many respects. This is not least because it goes beyond traditional concepts and methods of educating the gifted (including diagnostics and various […]
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The Corona virus has significantly changed our everyday life. Since 16 March 2020, regular classes as we know them no longer take place. Instead, the new directive was to make learning possible through various online options, which poses new challenges for teachers as well as students and their parents, and in a 5th grade in […]
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