I happened to have the opportunity to do an Erasmus-Plus Internship in a CLIL (Content and Language Integrated Learning) school in Valencia as a teacher assistant. During my internship, my school was taking part in an Erasmus_Plus co-funded project called VITAL: Approaches to Using Visuals in Teaching and Learning (link see below). The idea of […]
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Digitalisation is everywhere. It has become a political and economic buzz word, and it has moved to the top of the education policy agenda, at least rhetorically. Of course, foreign language pedagogy has been dealing with it for some time now. Two observations may lead to the following diagnoses. Hardware Questions On the one hand, […]
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It is almost impossible to imagine everyday life without music in all its forms, facets and functions. It is not only a realm for music lovers, but present almost everywhere: in the private home and in every car, in public places, live or recorded; in the supermarket as well as in pubs or clubs, on […]
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After working for a year in a more coursebook-oriented way, I felt like getting a little more creative again. I had survived the first year in the teaching profession. Now I wanted to try out how I could plan my lessons using the competence task and find out whether my classroom work could benefit from […]
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When we consider the proliferation and influence of English-language media, culture, business and politics we can see that English is a global language. In terms of numbers, Mandarin varieties likely outweigh English users, but the sheer global expanse of English is undeniable. And, increasingly, the global population is migrating. Currently, we are seeing levels of […]
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‘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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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