Hauptseminar Language Learning and Cultural Learning An Autobiographic Approach

The course aims to assist course members develop intercultural and language teaching competencies. Participants acquire declarative and procedural as well as situated cultural and linguistic knowledge in planning, delivering and evaluating culturally responsive language teaching classes as well as diagnosing the learners’ needs in diverse classrooms. As the class is based on the paradigm -Know thyself and understand others” knowledge construction on these processes are with respect to the own self as well as the other. The course offers room to discuss and implement an approach that takes account of multilingualism, multiculturalism and multi-perspectives as outlined in -Human GPS” (Finkbeiner, 2009). Students passing the course should be able to 1.Be familiar with the scholarship in the area of intercultural language teaching and learning, and intercultural communicative competence 2.Define and learn about different constructs of culture, critically analyse them and find examples for the different dimensions of culture, which will be situated in the participants’ particular field of professional interest (school, workplace). 3.Have a deeper understanding for the importance of identity, perception of the self and other, third space, culture shock, nonverbal communication, language awareness and cultural awareness as well as international business communication and analyse texts accordingly. 4.Understand the ways in which language, school curriculum, and school culture can disempower children and families who are new to a country or who belong to a minority. 5.Write an own language learning autobiography, learn how to interview someone who is different with respect to ethnicity, race, religion, language, nation or power, learn how to write a biography and undertake deep-level cross-cultural analyses 6.Become aware of the role of multi-perspectives, multiculturalism and multilingualism 7.Be familiar with strategies for culturally responsive language teaching and for effective intercultural communication. 8.Design and select culturally responsive ideas to meet particular language learning goals in a cultural framework´ 9.Understand the theoretical importance of socio-cultural theory with respect to cultural studies, applied linguistics and for language pedagogy Schmidt & Finkbeiner. (2006). The ABC's of Cultural Understanding and Communication. IAP Publishing. Voraussetzungen Participation requirements: active participation, regular attendance, short oral presentation Schein requirements: in addition to participation requirements, willingness to write an autobiography, biography, and comparison. Leistungsnachweis - Active and regular participation - Steps A, B, C1, C2, C3 - Paper FB 02 Institut für Anglistik / Amerikanistik Participation requirements: active participation, regular attendance, short oral presentation Schein requirements: in addition to participation requirements, willingness to write an autobiography, biography, and comparison. - Active and regular participation - Steps A, B, C1, C2, C3 - Paper Uni Kassel SoSe 2011 Anglistik/Englisch Anglistik/Englisch Zweitfach Prof. Dr. Finkbeiner Claudia