This article focuses on a German-Polish e-tandem course between Adam Mickiewicz University Poznań and the Technical University of Darmstadt, which was conducted as a joint cooperation seminar in real time on both sides. As part of the tandem project, students of Applied Linguistics in Poznań and students of the Darmstadt Language Centre created and presented their own video podcasts in mixed German-Polish tandems. The author discusses possible forms of language learning tandems and the main achievements of language e-tandem DaPo-cooperation on the basis of a quantitative and qualitative analysis of the students’ questionnaires. After the initial conclusions, the author formulates new questions that may help to develop an innovative e-tandem model for university language courses
The goal of developing the learner's intercultural communicative competence can best be achieved by an intercultural approach of foreign language teaching encompassing both the acquisition of linguistic and cultural competence as well as combining cognitive, communicative and affective goals to learning languages. In the field of intercultural foreign language teaching research, however, the most recent findings in cultural studies can influence effective methods of developing intercultural communicative competence. The aim of the article is therefore to focus on the importance of different cultural disciplines, examing their connections with cognitive and affective goals of foreign language teaching. The conclusive part of the paper points at issues that can become the object of further glottodidactic research.
In dem Beitrag wird auf den Stellenwert von Aufgaben zum interkulturellen Lernen bei der Sensibilisierung für Hassrede bei multikulturellen universitären Lehrkooperationen fokussiert. Das internationale Lehr- und Forschungsprojekt fand im Dezember 2016 in Poznań statt und wurde von der Adam-Mickiewicz-Universität in Poznań (Polen) und der Philipps-Universität in Marburg (Deutschland) organisiert. In dem MaPo (Marburg-Poznań) Projektseminar arbeiteten Studierende an der Entwicklung von didaktisch-methodischen landeskundlichen Lehrmaterialien. Darüber hinaus wurde den Teilnehmenden an den ersten zwei Tagen eine Kennenlernphase angeboten, in der sie neben aufwärmenden spielerischen Aktivitäten auch die im Rahmen des internationalen RADAR (Regulating Anti-Discrimination and Anti-Racism)-Projekts entworfenen Aufgaben für die Sensibilisierung für Stereotype und Hate Speech erprobten. Das von der Europäischen Kommission finanzierte Projekt sollte Materialien für anti-hate Kommunikationstrainings entwickeln. Nach der Aufgabenphase wurde unter den teilnehmenden Studierenden eine schriftliche, qualitativ orientierte Befragung durchgeführt, die Potentiale der angebotenen Aktivitäten zum interkulturellen Lernen erheben sollte. Im vorliegenden Beitrag werden ausgewählte Ergebnisse aus dieser Befragung näher betrachtet.
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The paper concentrates on tasks for intercultural learning as possible means of fostering the awareness of hate speech as exemplified by conclusions from an international project-based seminar conducted among students of applied linguistics and German studies. The seminar took place in Poznań, in December 2016, and was a joint venture organised by Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań (Poland) and the Philipps University of Marburg (Germany). Its student-participants were working on developing materials for intercultural instruction. Apart from that, on the first two days of the seminar, they took part in warm-up activities and tasks for intercultural learning aiming at heightening their awareness of hate speech as a phenomenon which may appear in daily intercultural interactions. The activities were compiled within the RADAR project (Regulating Anti-Discrimination and Anti-Racism), co-funded by the European Commission, whose aim was to develop tools which can be used in intercultural trainings on anti-hate communication. After the activities, the students participated in a qualitative survey which was designed to elicit their feedback on the potential of tasks for intercultural learning as awareness-raising tools. The presentation offers the discussion of the selected findings in this respect.
Media literacy is one of the basic elements of a foreign languageteacher’s workshop. Foreign language teaching recommends using mediain the classroom not only because it facilitates learning and teaching,but also because it fosters learner autonomy, stimulates creativityand lowers the affective filter. Taking this into account, the authors considerhow to develop the media competence of future teachers of Englishand German as foreign languages from both theoretical and practicalperspectives. In the empirical part of the paper the authors presentthe aims, participants, stages and results of an e-tandem project thattargeted a group of Polish and German students.
This article intends to contribute to the academic debate on the role of a foreign language teacher as an intercultural mediator. Specifically, the authors present a critical overview of constitutive characteristics of an intercultural mediator. Furthermore, the authors discuss research on the state of intercultural competence of Polish teachers of German as a foreign language, both in pre-school education and in primary, secondary and higher education in Poland. This reflection on the role of teachers as (inter)cultural mediators concludes with a discussion of proposals for the development of intercultural competence of foreign language students, especially of students of German philology and applied linguistics.
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Celem niniejszego artykułu jest przyczynienie się do debaty naukowej na temat roli nauczyciela języków obcych jako mediatora interkulturowego. Autorki charakteryzują sylwetkę nauczyciela języka obcego pełniącego funkcję mediatora interkulturowego. Ponadto podsumowują badania polskich germanistów, które dotyczą stanu kompetencji interkulturowej nauczycieli języka niemieckiego w edukacji przedszkolnej oraz w szkolnictwie podstawowym, średnim i wyższym w Polsce. Refleksję nad rolą nauczycieli jako mediatorów interkulturowych kończy dyskusja nad możliwymi rozwiązaniami w zakresie rozwoju kompetencji międzykulturowych studentów języków obcych, zwłaszcza studentów filologii germańskiej i lingwistyki stosowanej.
There is no doubt that the development of listening comprehension skills in foreign language learning is one of the least understood, least researched and yet, most important areas of foreign language teaching. In the light of this, the article aims to examine the usage and role of Podcasts in comparison with other didactic listening materials. The paper concludes with the discussion of possible technical and learning potential of podcasts for designing integrative training of listening comprehension.
Niniejszy artykuł prezentuje projekt opierający się na współpracy między Instytutem Lingwistyki Stosowanej w Poznaniu a Instytutem Pedagogiki Szkolnej w Marburgu w zakresie wspierania umiejętności odbioru obcojęzycznych tekstów audialnych i audiowizualnych: Kształceni do zawodu nauczyciela języka niemieckiego jako obcego studenci z Marburga opracowali materiały dydaktyczne do treningu słuchowego, które zostały wypróbowane w ramach zajęć praktycznych z j. niemieckiego ze studentami z Poznania. Po charakterystyce nauczycielskich studiów językowych w Marburgu i w Poznaniu autorki omawiają koncepcję, przebieg i ewaluację obu kursów. Artykuł kończy podsumowanie poświęcone zreferowaniu korzyści kooperacji dla dwóch uczestniczących w tym bilateralnym projekcie grup studenckich.
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The article presents a project aimed at the development of listening comprehension skills and based on the cooperation between the Institute of School Pedagogy (Institut für Schulpädagogik) at the Philipps University in Marburg and the Institute of Ap plied Linguistics (Instytut Lingwistyki Stosowanej) at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań. Educated for the profession of German language teachers, students from Marburg designed didactic materials for listening which were verified by foreign language students in Poznań during their practical German classes. Having characterized the studies for foreign language teacher trainees in both universities, the authors discuss the rationale, the process and the evaluation of the courses. Finally, the conclusion shows the benefits of the cooperation for both groups of students involved in this bilateral project.
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Im Beitrag wird ein Kooperationsprojekt dargestellt, in dem Lehrveranstaltungen des Instituts für Schulpädagogik der Philipps-Universität Marburg und des Instituts für Angewandte Linguistik der Adam-Mickiewicz-Universität Poznań im Bereich der Förderung der Hörverstehenskompetenz verzahnt wurden: Marburger DaF-Studierende erstellten Hörverstehensmaterialien, die in sprach-praktischen Lehrveranstaltungen mit DaF-Studierenden in Poznań erprobt wurden. Nach einer Beschreibung der DaF-Lehrerausbildung an beiden Universitäten erläutern die Autorinnen Aufbau, Ablauf und Evaluation der Lehrveranstaltungen. Abschließend wird in einem Fazit aufgezeigt, welcher Nutzen sich durch die Kooperation für beide Studierendengruppen ergab.
In this article, the authors concentrate on the manifestations of fears and speaking anxiety in multicultural student exchange projects. In the first part, numerous facets of speaking anxiety in different contexts are presented, including its potential causes and symptoms. The authors then proceed to discuss student encounters and student exchange projects in an intercultural context. In the empirical part, they present the initial results of the study on (not only) language anxiety experienced during a German-Polish student exchange between Poznań and Berlin in autumn 2018. Finally, some implications for dealing with speaking anxiety experienced in foreign language learning/teaching and during student exchange projects are suggested.
The paper discusses key educational issues related to the processes of decision-making and continuous teacher development at the level of the national (educational) authorities in Greece and Poland, regarding the urgency of the needs arising from the intensifying migration in the EU over the last two decades, and in view of the research conducted within the MaMLiSE project. The paper begins by reporting the official decisions and policies which laid the grounds for tackling the considerable linguistic variety that now characterises the school populations in each country, caused by the phenomenon of migration, and with refugee flows included. In addition, country-specific methods and resources used to produce educational materials for pupils from a migration background are presented. Finally, the available educational materials and their suitability to the specificity of each country’s current educational conditions are discussed. The concluding remarks are that a strong need is currently emerging for 1) nominating key-points in the pre- and in-service training of teachers with regard to multilingual classroom management, intercultural awareness and language sensitive subject teaching, 2) extrapolating common features necessary for the production of educational material (e.g. adaptability to new conditions, ease and flexibility of use in class, allowing translanguaging practices), and 3) negotiating shared educational principles (e.g. assessment framework, constructive use of language heritages at schools).