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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Looking back on more than 40 years as a teacher of English teacher and a Teaching English as a Foreign Language (TEFL) scholar, one is grateful for the idea that Sabine Doff’s and Tim Giesler’s had in Bremen. They staged a lecture series on the insights that can be drawn for the future of foreign […]
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The Handbook of Methods in Foreign Language Learning is out now. The first copies were delivered just in time for Christmas 2020. For Hélène Martinez and me, this was a special and also emotional moment: We started our work of conceiving the volume, contacting the authors, and writing our own contributions as early as in […]
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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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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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Learning at a distance requires a way of learning that does not rely on permanent pedagogical control, small-step instruction and control and constant reassurance. Instead, students must learn to organise their work and learning processes with a high degree of independence, activating all the abilities and competences available to them Distance learning with tasks However, […]
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The importance of digital learning became clear to us as teachers at the Johann Amos Comenius School in Kassel when our school, like all the others in Germany, was closed from one day to the next. The school cloud This is where Schul.Cloud helped us. The basic version is free and relatively easy to set […]
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Teaching grammar in the modern classroom should always be adapted to the target group, structured, communicative and organised in a sequence of learning stages (see Ziegésar&Ziegésar, 1992, and Hass 2019). Grammar-oriented teaching scenarios allow for an acquisition-oriented language learning process, including foreign language skills. The target-oriented structure of learning stages is modeled upon native language […]
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