Seminars with theory-practice transfer
We integrate practice-oriented components in our seminars through school visits or workshops at university.
VR-workshops and school visits
As a part of a university seminar and our research project on virtual reality (VR) and education for sustainable development (ESD), we carried out a VR workshop with learners of English in our SprachenLLab and we visited a secondary school in Coburg to try out our teaching sequences in a 9th and 11th grade. We would like to thank our colleague Heidi Schmitt and the Head of School OStDin Ursula Kick-Bernklau of the Gymnasium Coburg for the cooperation.
Project: VR and ESD in ELT
Seminar: Virtual Reality & ELT: Engage Your Learners! (summer term 2024)
Lecturers: Claudia Schnellbögl & Prof. Dr. Theresa Summer
Song-based English lessons
In an interdisciplinary seminar addressing the potential of songs for ELT, students developed their own song-based lesson sequences, which they tried out at the Werner-von-Siemens-Realschule in Bad Neustadt an der Saale. Pupils from different grades learned about Pride Month with the help of Macklemore's song "Same Love", dealt with behaving respectfully with "Riot Van" by the Arctic Monkeys, reflected on what makes us human based on the song “Human” by Rag’n’Bone Man and complimented each other based on the song "If I Were a Fish" by Corook. The university students then reflected on the implementation of their lessons based on their experiences and the feedback they received from the lecturers and teachers. According to the students, visiting the school was a valuable experience and they were grateful for being given the opportunity to try out their ideas in practice.
We would like to thank our colleague Nicole Gumbrecht and the Head of School RSD Thomas Schlereth of the Realschule Bad Neustadt for having us.
Seminar: "What's in a (Pop) Song? Linguistics meets Language Education” (summer term 2023)
Lecturers: Prof. Dr. Theresa Summer & PD Dr. Valentin Werner