Can we learn new things on the go, whilst going for a walk, exercising or doing household chores? Yes, with podcasts!
Worldwide an additional four thousand German teachers are needed. Language skills are the key to successful integration for immigrant students and skilled workers.
Learners with self-regulation skills learn more efficiently – at school and later in life, too. But is that possible with fewer teachers?
(Foreign) languages open up new worlds to us, but we generally feel most at home in our mother tongue. And yet, as Professor Thorsten Piske at Friedrich Alexander University in Erlangen and Nuremburg explains in an interview, our native language isn’t always the language we speak best.
Using conferencing tools as a synchronous online element in blended or online learning is now an integral part of the portfolios of Goethe-Instituts and other language schools. These tools can be a sustainable approach to group learning – provided they are used in certain ways, as presented in the following practical tips.
Training of teachers of German is the basis for the proper teaching of German as a foreign or second language. But what sort of qualifications are needed if the new global and indeed regional challenges are to be met?
