Digitization

The advent of online dictionaries has banished the classic reference book in its printed paper form to the substitute bench. At first glance, the advantages of Internet dictionaries are overwhelming: you always have all  languages in one app on your smartphone. Whole sentences or idioms can be googled. Complete declinations, conjugations and directories are just a […]

‘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 […]

Das Arbeiten mit vielfältigen Funden textueller, visueller und anderer Natur in digitalen Umgebungen, meist im Internet, bringt die Herausforderung mit sich, aus der Vielzahl der Texte und medialen Artefakte, die ein Hypertext in sich vereinigt, zu einer diffusen Informationslage und zu einer verschwommenen Vorstellung davon führen kann, was der Kern der gefundenen Informationen ist. Es […]

Let us begin with a few observations all of us have probably made. There is this young woman outside a restaurant in Milan on a beautiful summer day. Next to her, there’s a young man, maybe her boyfriend or a friend of hers; they have ordered a meal and soon the spaghetti are served. Before […]