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Dr. Jenny Jakisch

"Mehrsprachigkeit und Englischunterricht. Fachdidaktische Perspektiven, schulpraktische Sichtweisen"

Die Forderung der Sprachenpolitik der Europäischen Union nach individueller Mehrsprachigkeit der Unionsbürger („M+2“) lässt sich auf theoretischer Ebene mit zahlreichen Argumenten rechtfertigen. In der Praxis, d.h. der schulischen Wirklichkeit, sind der Umsetzung der Erziehung zu Mehrsprachigkeit jedoch Grenzen gesetzt. Das schulische Fremdsprachenlernen scheint mehr und mehr von einer Sprache bestimmt zu sein: dem Englischen, das nur allzu leicht den Eindruck erweckt, eine Sprache allein sei bereits ausreichend für die europäische und internationale Verständigung.

 

Vor diesem Hintergrund werden an den Englischunterricht, der für einen Großteil der Schüler die 1. Fremdsprache darstellt, neue Anforderungen gestellt. So sollen nicht nur die Kompetenzen der Schüler in der Zielsprache Englisch entwickelt werden, sondern es sind darüber hinaus Grundlagen affektiver, kognitiver, methodischer und interkultureller Art für das Lernen weiterer Fremdsprachen zu legen.

Ausgehend von der These, dass der Weg zu Mehrsprachigkeit das Englische mit einschließen muss, untersucht das Promotionsvorhaben, wie ein realistischer und empirisch fundierter Beitrag des Englischunterrichts zur Entwicklung von Mehrsprachigkeit aussehen könnte.

Neben einer Befragung von SchülerInnen der 10. Klasse des Gymnasiums mittels Fragebogen liefern Experteninterviews mit EnglischlehrerInnen wertvolle Einsichten hinsichtlich der Möglichkeiten und Grenzen von Mehrsprachigkeit im und durch Englischunterricht.

 

Dr. des. Claudia Müller

Promotion zum Thema: "The Potential of Serious Games for Global Education in the EFL Classroom"

Teachers are faced with the task to educate students in a way that enables them to successfully manage 21st century challenges. Given that life has become more complex, the abilities for children to prevail those challenges have become more intricate, and the competences that enable students to successfully participate in a globalized world have become more exacting. The concept of global education is the educational approach that takes those challenges into account by aiming at enabling students to become responsible and knowledgeable participants in a globalized world. It is the goal of global education to help the students develop knowledge, skills, attitudes, and action with a clear focus on fostering capabilities of a mature participation in a globalized world. (Cates 1998) As declared by the German Secretaries of Education in 2007, the overall teaching goal has to be the development of a participatory competence. (KMK 2007) A topical development of material for the classroom needs to be considered with respect to how global issues can be implemented and how participation within the classroom can be reciprocated and multiplied outside the classroom in order to create a sustainable future. Foreign language teaching plays a leading role in that respect due to its inherent intercultural component. Digital game-based learning can play an important part in order to achieve that goal as games inhere an immediate motivational component and research verified that teens who have civic gaming experience report higher levels of civic engagement. (Kahne 2009) Thus, it is the goal of my research project to analyze the potential of so-called serious games (digital games that have an educational purpose) for global education in the English as a foreign language classroom. It aims at offering a framework for the use of serious games, particularly those that have an English language design and focus on human rights, as an additional method for the EFL classroom. Criteria of how those games need to be conceptualized in order to be useful for the EFL classroom will be geared towards current educational standards in Lower Saxony as well as global education requirements.

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