TEFL guest lectures

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:

Prof. Dr. Regina Kaplan-Rakowski

University of North Texas, USA

Workshop "Language Learning in High-Immsersion Virtual Reality"

3 June 2024

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: