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English Language Education

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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 carry out VR workshops with learners of English. For example, we either invite learners to our SprachenLLab or visit classes at their school to try out teaching sequences with VR.

We would like to thank the dedicated students, teachers and learners as well as the school principals for their great cooperation:

Project: VR and ESD in ELT

Seminar: Virtual Reality & ELT: Engage Your Learners! (summer term 2024)

Lecturers: Claudia Schnellbögl & Prof. Dr. Theresa Summer

VR-Workshop at the Casimirianum Gymnasium Coburg on 16 July 2024 (from left to right: Michelle Zirkel, Heidi Schmitt, Theresa Summer, Claudia Schnellbögl)

VR-Workshop in the SprachenLLab with the Franz-Ludwig-Gymnasium in Bamberg on 10 December 2024 (from left to right: Claudia Schnellbögl, Cordula Schwarzl, the four students of the seminar, Theresa Summer)

During the VR workshop in the SprachenLLab with the Franz-Ludwig-Gymnasium in Bamberg, the students immerse themselves in a VR world created by the student using the AR2VR app.

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