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.
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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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 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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The cultural developments of the recent past and the present, which are indicated by keywords such as globalization, migration and digitization, are characterized by an enormous dynamic and bring with them impactful social and cultural transformations. These are accompanied by numerous developments and innovations in cultural studies and cultural theory which cultural education in the […]
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The issue of professionalisation of English Language Teaching (ELT) remains underexplored in academic discourse. This is why, together with my colleague Andrzej Cirocki from the University of York, UK, I have written a timely guide to professional teacher development in ELT, showing how teacher educators and classroom practitioners can develop their practice. The book, published […]
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Literary Studies in Teacher Education Since the beginning of the 2000s, foreign language didactics in all school foreign languages have established themselves as a discipline at virtually all universities – more or less. At the same time, they have also become more diversified, so that quite a few universities have established both a professorship in […]
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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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