TEFL guest lectures
In some of our seminars, we integrate guest lectures:
Guest lecture by PD Dr. Valentin Werner (21 October 2024): SLA meets Learner Corpus Research
PD Dr. Valentin Werner
University of Bamberg, Chair of English Linguistics
21 October 2024, 9 - 9:45
Abstract: This talk will offer a brief introduction into the subfield of Learner Corpus Research (LCR), which can be viewed as an emerging discipline of Second Language Acquisition (SLA) Research. LCR researchers compile digital collections of learner language production (interlanguage) and analyze them at various levels (e.g. pronunciation, grammar, errors). A second focus will lie on an ongoing LCR project called Young German Learner English (https://www.ygle.de), which focuses on the exploration of the SLA constructs Complexity, Accuracy and Fluency among EFL learners in secondary schools. This project has a strong practical concern and eventually aims at mapping the development of learner language over time, so that its data can eventually also be used to familiarize future EFL educators with learner features and supply material developers with information what learners know at various stages.
Guest lecture by Dr. Marta Janachowska-Budych (17 June 2024): Migration-related diversity as a topic in foreign language didactics: Selected theoretical and practical aspects
This guest lecture was held in German as a part of the diversity guest professorship.
Dr. Marta Janachowska-Budych
Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, Poland
17 June 2024, 4 - 6 pm
According to UNICEF (2021), the number of international migrants in 2020 was 281 million – almost 13% of them, 36 million people, were under the age of 18: children and young people of school age. These statistics illustrate the immense and complex impact of migration on the design of modern education, from the right of these children and young people to representation and inclusion in different national education systems to teaching that takes the national, ethnic and linguistic heterogeneity of each learning environment into account. This also applies to language learning in and outside institutionalised educational contexts, which takes place under the conditions – and consequences – of a migrating world population. In the lecture, the problem of the "hyperobject" (Thomas Morton) migration, which inspires sociological, pedagogical and linguistic research, among others, will be examined from a foreign language didactic perspective. Specifically, the focus of interest will be on the potentials and challenges of using German-language literary texts on migration in the teaching of German as a foreign language, whereby both the theoretical framework and practice-oriented examples can be transferred to other language constellations and foreign language didactic learning settings.
See below for the German poster:
Guest lecture by Prof. Dr. Regina Kaplan-Rakowski: Workshop "Language Learning in High-Immsersion Virtual Reality" (3 June 2024)
Prof. Dr. Regina Kaplan-Rakowski
University of North Texas, USA
Workshop "Language Learning in High-Immsersion Virtual Reality"
3 June 2024
Guest lecture by OStRin Kathrin Bauer: Workshop "Motivation factor mebis" (17 May 2023)
This guest lecture was held in German and focussed on how the platform "Mebis" can be used more efficiently.
See below for the German poster:
Guest lecture by Dr. Rod Neilsen: Trends in Pedagogical Grammar: An Australian Perspective (17 November 2021)
