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Philipp Siepmann, Dominik Rumlich, Frauke Matz, and Ricardo Römhild (2021): Attention to diversity in German CLIL classrooms: multi-perspective research on students’ and teachers’ perceptions. In: International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism 2021 (ahead-of-print), 1-17.
doi:10.1080/13670050.2021.1981821

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Becker, Daniel (2021): Videospiele im Fremdsprachenunterricht. Tübingen: Narr.   Link zur Publikation [de]

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Videospiele sind nicht nur äußerst beliebt bei Jugendlichen, sondern weisen auch vielseitige Potentiale für das Fremdsprachenlernen auf. Doch wie genau kann man diese Potentiale praktisch umsetzen und im Fremdsprachenunterricht nutzen? Das vorliegende Buch möchte Antworten auf diese in der Fremdsprachenforschung bisher vernachlässigte Frage bieten.

Im Rahmen der Vorlesung Selected Aspects of SLA/ELT findet am 08. Dezember 2021 ein Gastvortrag von Dr. Nathan Devos (British Columbia Institute of Technology) zum Thema Language Assessment for the Classroom: Transferring Theory of Assessment Development to Online Language Assessment for Practical Use in the Classroom statt.

Wann? - 8.12.2021, 16:00-18:00 Uhr
Wo? - Audimax (Johanisstr. 12-20)
 

Am 26.10.21 war das ELE Team des WWU QLB Teilprojektes "Videobasierte Lehrmodule als Mittel der Theorie-Praxis Integration” von der Bezirksregierung Münster eingeladen, im Rahmen der Dienstbesprechung der Fachleitungen Englisch von dem aktuellen Stand des Projekts zu berichten. Der Auftaktvortrag sowie die anschließende Diskussion fand im ZfsL Gelsenkirchen statt.

Wir möchten uns an dieser Stelle ganz herzlich für die Einladung und den Austausch mit den Fachleitungen Englisch der Seminare Bocholt, Gelsenkirchen, Münster, Recklinghausen und Rheine bedanken.

Dr. des. Johanna Marks wurde auf dem diesjährigen Kongress der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Fremdsprachenforschung (DGFF) der Nachwuchspreis in Würdigung ihrer Dissertation “Standards und Kompetenzen in der Lehrer*innenbildung - eine fremdsprachendidaktischen Perspektive" verliehen.
Wir gratulieren ihr von ganzem Herzen für diesen Erfolg und freuen uns sehr mit ihr über diese bedeutende Auszeichnung.
Unser großer Dank gilt der Erstbetreuerin, Professorin Christiane Lütge von der Ludwig-Maximillians-Universität München. Prof. Dr. Lütge, die von 2011-2015 den Lehrstuhl für Englische Didaktik an der WWU hatte, war erfolgreich in der Abordnung von Johanna Mark aus dem Schuldienst und hat die Dissertationsarbeit über ihren Wechsel an die LMU hinaus in großartiger Weise betreut und Johanna Marks intensiv in diesem Prozess begleitet.

On Monday , 4th October, our TOOLS-multiplier event took place at the ZfsL Münster and we were able to welcome 75 participants. This teacher education event focused on the aspects of digitality, inclusion and digital citizenship. Jun- Prof. Dr. Carolyn Blume (Dortmund University) gave an introductory talk, which was followed by four different workshops.
It was the first time that in the context of English language education all institutions (ELE@WWU, ZfL, ZfsLs Münster, Gelsenkirchen, Bocholt) came together to discuss technologically enhanced online opportunities for language learning in inclusive education.

We would like to use this opportunity to thank the 55 in-service teacher trainees, their 5 ZfsL teacher educators the team of the ZfsL Münster as well as the workshop leaders and Jun.Prof. Carolyne Blume for this amazing and fruitful day.

Are you writing your MA-thesis in English language education at the moment, or are you thinking about doing so in the near future?

If so, the ELE team of the WWU Münster would like to invite you to join our new MA-colloquium. The colloquium is open for all MA-students and aims at offering you:

* an opportunity to present your work in progress to your fellow students and lecturers
* individualised feedback on your work in progress
* an opportunity to connect and exchange ideas with other MA-thesis candidates
* general input on how to write your MA-thesis

In the winter term 21/22, the MA-Colloquium will take place via Zoom on the following dates: 19.10.21, 09.11.21, 07.12.21, 11.01.22 from 6 - 7:30 pm.

If you would like to participate, please contact Alicia Battenfeld.
Should there be any questions regarding the colloquium, please contact Anika Marxl.

The project TOOLS (Technologically enhanced online opportunities for language learning in inclusive education) aims to prepare in- and pre-service English teachers to face diversity and inclusion in the classroom in the digital age. With the support of the European Union and Erasmus+, 7 partners across 5 countries combine skills in the areas of inclusion, ICT and teacher training, along with their different cultural perceptions. In Münster, the Zentrum für Lehrerbildung (ZfL) and the team of English language education at the WWU as well as the Zentrum für schulpraktische Lehrerausbildung (ZfsL) are working on the project.
This teacher training event is part of the TOOLS project and focuses puts a specific focus on the aspect of digital citizenship. Jun- Prof. Dr. Carolyn Blume will give a introductory talk followed by different workshops for you to choose from.

Details regarding the registration can be found on the TOOLS website soon.

We are very pleased to announce that Rebecca Schlieckmann has joined our team!
Her main research interests include early foreign language learning and teaching, the transition from primary to secondary school, teacher cooperation and EFL teacher education. In 2021 she successfully defended her PhD Dissertation. You can find more information on her website.
 

Material Analysis and Design: Study@home - The TOOLS Project
22nd – 26th November 2021
Please note that we now offer a project week for future teachers of English (Blockseminar) who still need to complete their study@home. It will be taught by teachers of the University of Vic, Spain, the University of Opole, Poland, and the WWU as part of the ERASMUS+ TOOLS project. As part of this international project, you will be placed in groups with international students from Vic and Opole University to study together.
For more information on the project and registration process visit the Tools website!
 

On 11th June 2021, the international symposium „Fostering and Assessing Oracy in Foreign Language Education: Perspectives from Practice-Oriented and Design-Based Research”, which was organised by the TEFL department of the WWU, was held online. Led by Jun.-Prof. Dr. Julia Reckermann and Dr. Philipp Siepmann, the event shed light onto two significant developments in foreign language research: firstly, it addressed the importance of oracy in foreign language learning and teaching, and secondly, it highlighted the potential, and increasing significance, of practice-oriented and design-based empirical research in foreign language education. The virtual format allowed 36 participants from five countries to participate in a lively and highly productive exchange.
Read the whole article on the Symposium website!
 

For a presentation of the four ADiBE outputs that will be published on the project website www.adibeproject.com later in 2021, the whole project family convened for the CLIL 2021 webinar. The event was organized by Kim Bower and her team at Sheffield Hallam University, but had to take place online due to the ongoing pandemic. It was the first time the results of the cross-national research project on diversity and differentiation in bilingual education as well as the three practice-oriented outputs were revealed to a larger audience of CLIL researchers and practitioners. Read more...

Currently, video games are witnessing a ‘golden age’. With titles such as Minecraft or GTA V selling over 200 million copies worldwide, they have become a most prominent part of popular culture today. With this in mind, it is hardly surprising that video games are often frequented by children and teenagers, too. As the most recent JIM study shows (Medienpädagogischer Forschungsverband 2020: 54), 68% of the studied 12 to 19-year-olds play digital games daily or several times a week, while another 25% deal with them on a monthly basis. In a younger generation, in other words, digital games have become a force of entertainment to be reckoned with.

And yet, video games are more than just entertainment: games also afford numerous opportunities for learning and can be used to foster key competences in English language education. In my presentation, I will provide an overview over some of these learning potentials, by looking at concrete game examples and their affordances in the EFL classroom. Additionally, I will explore ways and approaches to implement games in teaching practice, since, so far, the question of how to work with video games has hardly been explored on a systematic level. In this context, the presentation will also deal with issues and challenges that go along with using this digital medium in an EFL teaching environment.
 

Are you writing your MA-Thesis in English language education at the moment, or are you thinking about doing so in the near future?

If so, the ELE team of the WWU Münster would like to invite you to join our new  MA-Colloquium. The colloquium is open for all MA-students and aims at offering you:

• an opportunity to present your work in progress to your fellow students and lecturers
• individualised feedback on your work in progress
• an opportunity to connect and exchange ideas with other MA-thesis candidates
• general input on how to write your MA-thesis

In the summer term 2021, the MA-Colloquium will take place via Zoom on the following dates: 27.04, 11.05, 08.06, and 19.06.2021

If you want to participate or have any questions, please contact:
Daniel Becker
 

Are you writing your BA or Med thesis in English Language Education this semester? Then sign up for our workshops!

How (not) to write your BA/MEd thesis
28.04.2021, 18:00-19:30 (via Zoom)
(Jun.-Prof. Dr. Julia Reckermann)

"Ich muss jetzt echt mal anfangen" - wissenschaftliches Schreiben meistern
05.05.2021, 18:00-19:30 (via Zoom)
(Anika Marxl & Marius Ritter)

Information regarding the registration can be found on the poster below (see pdf-fyle).
 

Am 02.03.2021 veranstaltete das Forum Fremdsprachendidaktik den 9. Nachmittag der Fremdsprachen.
Bedingt durch die Corona-Pandemie fand die jährliche Lehrer*innenfortbildung dieses Jahr erstmalig digital statt. Nach einer kurzen Begrüßung nahmen die Teilnehmenden an zwei verschiedenen Workshops teil. Ganz nach dem diesjährigen Motto: Spotlights in Foreign Language Education wurden Workshops mit einem breiten Spektrum an Themen angeboten.

Wir möchten uns an dieser Stelle bei der überwältigenden Zahl der Teilnehmenden bedanken: ganze 335 Anmeldungen sind im Vorfeld getätigt worden! Diese große Resonanz und auch das durchweg positive Feedback haben uns sehr gefreut. Ein herzliches Dankeschön auch an alle Workshopleitenden sowie an alle Teammitglieder, die mit ihrer tatkräftigen Unterstützung diese Veranstaltung möglich gemacht haben.

Wir freuen uns auch schon, Sie alle bei unserem nächsten Nachmittag der Fremdsprachen - hoffentlich in Präsenz - am 02.03.2022 begrüßen zu dürfen!

We are very happy to announce that Jens Folkerts will join our Team from February onwards. He has been a full-time teacher for several years and is now starting his PhD focusing on listening comprehension and the development of new test designs for high stakes exams.

You can find more information on his website.

We are very pleased to announce that Stewart Campbell has joined our team.
Originally from Los Angeles, he has studied in both Germany and the United States and is a fully-certified secondary school teacher in the subjects English and history at the Gymnasium/Gesamtschule level.
He is currently a PhD student within the QLB Projekt Basiscurriculum Heterogenität [de] and will support our department in this area.

You can find more information about Stewart Campbell on his website.

Hosted by the Finnish team, the 3rd partner meeting took place online on 21st/22nd September 2020. The international expert group discussed how to proceed in times of the pandemic with regards to both project coordination and collaboration with local schools. Although virtual exchange certainly cannot replace face-to-face collaboration in Finnland, the meeting was highly productive and proved to be a highlight in the academic calendar of everybody involved. As a result, the project enters its next stage, promising to provide concrete resources to make bilingual education a more inclusive reality for all.

After a short hiatus over the summer, the Erasmus Plus Project TOOLS has taken up work again in its partner meeting on September 22nd. Due to the Corona crisis, this meeting had to take place via Zoom (see photo).

During the meeting, the different partners of the project provided a short update on their work in progress and arranged a timeline for their contributions in the upcoming weeks. The project, which deals with questions of inclusion and diversity in a digital age, has just entered the phase of materials development. The team of English language education at the WWU Münster (represented by Frauke Matz, Daniel Becker and Anika Marxl) will also contribute some learning materials to the project. The materials to be developed aim at assisting teachers in dealing with different forms of diversity in their classrooms and will be collected on a project-platform soon.
 

We are excited to welcome Prof. Dr. Julia Reckermann, who has just joined our team in January 2020.

Please find more information here.

Das TOOLS Projekt hat begonnen.

Im Rahmen dieses praxisnahen, anwendungsbezogenen europäischen Kooperationsprojektes sind Daniel Becker & Frauke Matz (Fachdidaktik Englisch), Corinna Schopphoff & Martin Jungwirth (ZfL) und Ralf Kerstgens (ZfsL Münster) nach Opole gereist.
Mit diesem Kick-off Meeting vom 04.11.-06.11.2019 beginnen wir ein phasenübergreifendes Projekt, das im Zeichen von Inklusion und Digitalisierung steht.
Wir freuen uns sehr auf diese Zusammenarbeit!

We were delighted to host the 2nd partner meeting of our ADiBE project from Thursday, 24th until Saturday, 26th October 2020.

It was a pleasure for the Münster team to welcome the representatives of the Austrian (Silvia Bauer-Marschalinger, Christiane Dalton-Puffer & Helen Heaney), Finnish (Tarja Nikula-Jäntti & Kristiina Skinnari), Italian (Teresa Ting), Spanish (María Luisa Pérez Canado, Diego Rascón Moreno, Trinidad Jerez Montoy, Antonio Vincente Casas Pedrosa) and UK teams (Do Coyle & Kim Bower) as well as Dominik Rumlich (Germany).

In a joint event hosted by the TEFL team and the Chair of English, Postcolonial & Media Studies, author Olumide Popoola delivered an engaging creative writer's talk titled "Undo Me! Language, Form, and Queer Potentiality" as part of this year's "Postcolonial Narrations" graduate forum. Popoola engaged with her novel "When We Speak of Nothing" and explored the idea of how form and Yoruba folklore provide means to express alternative understandings of youth culture and transgender identities. With the TEFL team, Popoola was also in talks about further projects that center on teaching Nigerian texts in German high schools.

We are very pleased to announce that Marius Ritter has now joined our team.
He is a PhD student within the QLB Projekt Videobasierte Lehrmodule als Mittel der Theorie-Praxis-Integration and will support us within this project.

You can find more information here.