We are currently experiencing a period of cultural and societal change in which foreign languages are more important than ever.
This language learning log observes and comments on everything that is relevant for foreign language learning.
Methods of the Analysis of Literary Texts In 2010, Vera and Ansgar Nuenning published the commendable volume on “Methods of Textual Analysis in Literary and Cultural Studies,” as it was titled, with Metzler Publishers. This volume responded to the surprising but quite accurate finding that in literary studies the explicit naming and reflection of methodological […]
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More recently, cultural learning in the English as a Foreign Language (EFL) classroom has been characterized by pluralization and diversification. This development is overdue, because for a long time, mainly under the heading of intercultural learning, it was oriented to a quite traditional kind of Landeskunde content with a nation-based concept of culture and quite […]
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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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It is a very encouraging experience in the research network “Leistung macht Schule” (Excellence in School Education) that many schools in the English as a Foreign Language project and in other subprojects are not confined to the comparatively narrow framework of individual research and development projects. Rather, they simultaneously intend to develop their whole school […]
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The German national research project “Leistung macht Schule” (LemaS – Excellence in School Education) has set itself the goal of researching ways of recognizing learners’ talents and promoting them that are new in many respects. This is not least because it goes beyond traditional concepts and methods of educating the gifted (including diagnostics and various […]
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The teachers’ cultural knowledge of the learners’ lifeworlds is a linchpin of all pedagogical efforts in school education and its educational theoretical foundation. In condensed form this setting occurs in the established principle of learner orientation, but also in many other concepts such as that of differentiation, adaptivity, or individualized teaching and learning. Learner orientation […]
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