For various reasons, there is an increasing scepticism as to whether the coursebook is a pedagogical medium that is suited to guide and structure language learning and teaching appropriately any longer. In terms of its content, it is characterized by a certain belatedness since by the time it is released, five or more years have […]
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In the lower secondary classroom, coursebooks are the main teaching resource, providing texts and materials, pools of exercises and tasks, a whole set of lexical items and grammatical instructions, plus media packages containing videos and audio files, sometimes extra materials and task instructions for further work beyond the teaching unit. The texts and materials in […]
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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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Between 2020 and today, digitization has often been treated as a stopgap solution to pandemic distance learning. One may hope, however, that the insight has taken hold in this phase that the digital dimension demands a fundamentally new conception of language, communication, and discursive interaction beyond the pandemic. This also raises the question of whether […]
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The University of Wuppertal offers a long-standing PrimA (Praktikum im Ausland = school placement abroad) programme in teacher education. A lecture that was held on 21 January 2021 as part of the online lecture series Tea Time Thursday at the University of Cologne’s Centre for Teacher Education explores the rationale for and the effect of […]
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When the Corona pandemic required schools and universities to provide opportunities for distance learning in March 2020, TEFL lecturers at Wuppertal University faced a double challenge: New forms of digital distance learning for future use in schools had to be developed. At the same time, we had to enable student teachers who could not complete […]
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Now – at last – the digitization of teaching and schools is no longer just a matter of policy statements and announcements. The pandemic has forced us to digitize everyday teaching. Now – finally – we are talking very concretely and practically about end devices, video tools and learning platforms, but finally also about their […]
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