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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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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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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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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