Teaching and Learning English with New Media - Einzelansicht

First meeting: 08. April 2020

Please note that if you do not come to the first meeting, you run the risk of losing your place.

Digital change challenges foreign language teachers to reevaluate and reconceptualize the opportunities of teaching English in the digital world (Lütge, Merse & Su, 2019). Debates about the characteristics of digitally competent teachers, discussions on the ways of integrating digital devices into language lessons, as well as considerations of improving pupils’ digital competences have been widely discussed in the foreign language discourse and found their way into numerous official documents and frameworks (e.g. The European Framework for the Digital Competence of Educators or Bildung in der digitalen Welt: Strategie der Kultusministerkonferenz). Given the fast progress in technology development, current trends in digital learning tend to change rapidly. How can English language teaching and learning be supported by the use of new media?

This course allows students to explore the potential and implementation of various kinds of new media technologies for the purpose of foreign language teaching and learning. In order to provide a pedagogical framework for new media in ELT, the seminar starts with an examination of official documents on digital teaching and learning, discussion of multimedia learning principles, and models of technology assessment. In the following part, students are encouraged to explore various technologies that might be used in a foreign language classroom, such as AR, VR, or 360-degree photos and videos. Numerous approaches to digital teaching and learning are going to be discussed as well, for instance CALL, game-based learning or blended learning. Finally, we are going to analyze chosen digital tools that are often being used by German EFL school-age learners.

Recommended:

Carrier, M. & Nye, A. (2017). Empowering teachers for the digital future. What do 21st century teaches need? In M. Carrier, R. M. Damerow & K. M. Bailey (Eds.), Digital language learning and teaching. Research, theory, and practice (pp. 208–221). New York, London, Monterey: Routledge Taylor & Francis Group.

De Florio-Hansen, I. (2018). Teaching and learning English in the digital age. Münster, New York: Waxmann.

Further texts will be made available throughout the course.

Please register via WUSEL between 17.02.2020 to 01.03.2020.
Registrations before or after this time will not be considered.

BA (HRGe): Students should have successfully completed the course ”Introduction to Teaching English as a Foreign Language” and ”Grundlagenseminar Fachdidaktik Englisch”.

MEd 11, MEd 14, MEd 19: Completion of the D module as part of your BA; no further MEd requirements for enrolment.

Requirements/assignments (depending on your ”Studien-/ Prüfungsordnung”) will be explained in the first meeting.

Kombi-BA 2015: ANG-H-D (Komponente c)

Kombi-BA Optionalbereich (Profil Bildungswissenschaften ANG 102, Challenges and Chances, Part B)

MEd 14, MEd 19 Lehramt GymGe/BK: M-ENG 9 a

MEd 14, MEd 19 Lehramt HR(S)Ge: M-ENG 6 a

MEd 14, MEd 19 Lehramt Grundschule: M-ENG 3 a