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Teil eines Buches
Culture and good language learners
(Cambridge University Press, 2008)
This chapter will discuss the role of culture and language learning in the classroom. Variations in cultural, ethnic, and national characteristics within and among individual students affect classroom dynamics and therefore influence the decisions which teachers need to make in order to provide an optimal learning environment for all learners. Culture is not an easy concept to define, and is especially difficult to disentangle from concepts such as ethnicity and nationality. Individuals define and interpret these ...
Teil eines Buches
Handlungsorientierter Unterricht (Holistic and action-oriented learning and teaching)
(Routledge, 2013)
Holistic, action-oriented learning and teaching (in German: handlungsorientierter Unterricht) are principles in schooling that take account of learners' undivided physical, psychological, emotional and spiritual preconditions in the learning process as well as their inherent human drive to be actively and whole-heartedly involved in relevant actions (Finkbeiner, 2002). The teaching approach based on this presupposition considers that learners make active use of both hemispheres of the brain (Löffler, 2002), thus ...
Beitrag zu Periodikum
Cooperative Learning and Teaching in Germany
(2003-10)
This survey article focuses on the status quo as well as the historical development of cooperative and collaborative learning in Germany. Due to the growing social, cultural and ethnic diversity in Germany, cooperation and communication are overall goals in all official curricula and are considered as key qualifications (Finkbeiner, 1995) for a successful school and job career in a highly diverse society. For instance, the recent PISA study (Program for International Students’ Assessment) put major emphasis on the ...
Aufsatz
The promotion of explicit and implicit learning strategies in English instruction: a necessary aim?
(1998)
According to Cohn, human beings are both a psycho-biological unit and a part of the universe. They are at the same time autonomous and interdependent (Cohn 1984). The results from this study show, however, that there are still many learners both at secondary school and at university who have neither learnt to think about their reading behaviour nor how to evaluate and change their reading processes and futhermore, nor how to aim at and achieve goals in a more purposeful way. Most of the subjects in the investigation ...
Konferenzveröffentlichung
Handlungsorientierter Englischunterricht zwischen den Zwängen einer pluralistischen Gesellschaft, der pädagogischen Freiheit des Lehrers und den Ansprüchen des Schülers - ein circulus vitiosus?
(Universitätsverlag Dr. N. Brockmeyer, 1995)
The article is based on an empirical project that explored linguistic and educational needs from 1990 till 1992 for future Europe. The matter of discussion attends to the question whether 'action-oriented' foreign language teaching taking place between the constraints of the pluralistic society, the pedagogic freedom of the teacher and the demands, needs and interests of the pupil is a vicious circle or not. Therefore the multifarious conditions of language teaching are focussed. The following spheres are pointed out ...
Aufsatz
A cooperative approach for facilitating intercultural education
(International Reading Association, Inc., 2002-10)
Teil eines Buches
Language Awareness and Multilingualism: A Historical Overview
(Springer, 2017-05-20)
In this encyclopedia entry, language awareness and multilingualism will be reviewed from a historical perspective, and current research trends will be highlighted. There is not a direct relationship between both movements from the beginning; rather there have been parallel (independent) developments. With the world becoming increasingly interconnected, multilingualism and diversity have turned into an everyday experience in various domains of life. While the field of language awareness initially concentrated on English ...