Die Vorlesung gibt einen allgemeinverständlichen Überblick über die Forschung und Lehre an der Professur für Deutsch als Fremd- und Zweitsprache der TU Chemnitz.

The topic of this work is reading workshops as a means of learning German as a foreign language. The aim of the thesis is to find out whether, and if so, what is the organizational and methodically inventive form of didactic potential in teaching German as a foreign language. The work is divided into theoretical and practical part. It focuses on the literary text and its role in teaching, as well as the representation of literature in the Common European Framework of Reference (CEFR) and in the Supplement to the CEFR. Attention is paid to reading skills with an emphasis on literary reading, which is crucial for working with literary texts. The concept of reading workshops represents a bridge between the theoretical and practical part and brings four different adaptations of literary texts targeting literary, communicative, intercultural, and linguistic competence. The empirical survey contained in the fourth chapter presents the results of a questionnaire survey, which was conducted among German language teachers at the elementary faculty schools of PedF UK. The research was based on the confirmed hypothesis that teachers rarely work with literary texts, even though they consider working with literary texts to be beneficial. KEYWORDS Reading, literary reading, reading workshops, didactic adaptation...

Ausgehend von der Frage nach der Funktionsrelevanz des Konjunktivs als Anzeiger für 'Indirekte Rede' wird in einem zweiten Schritt das modale Funktionspotential von Indikativ, Konjunktiv I und II im Spannungsfeld von Sprachnorm, Sprachvariation und Sprachsystem diskutiert. Im Fokus stehen dabei die so genannte 'Berichtete Rede' und abhängige Verbletztsätze. Die anschließende empirische Untersuchung erhebt mittels speziell entwickelter Lückensätze, inwieweit mit der Modusverwendung in beiden Strukturen textsortenstilistische Empfehlungen und textgrammatische Regeln befolgt werden. Eine zusätzliche Befragung zielt darauf ab, ob ein Zusammenhang zwischen der Verwendung einer Modusform und dem Ausdruck einer Sprechereinstellung (Zustimmung, Neutralität, Skepsis und Ablehnung) zum Wahrheitsgehalt der wiedergegebenen Information feststellbar ist. Die statistische Auswertung ergibt einerseits, dass die Mehrheit sowohl der nichtmuttersprachlichen, als auch der muttersprachlichen Studierenden die wiedergegebene fremde Rede entweder gar nicht oder nicht konsequent als solche kenntlich macht und damit gegen die Wahrung geistigen Eigentums verstößt. Andererseits führt auch die Beobachtung eines häufig unsystematischen Modusformengebrauchs in beiden Probandengruppen nicht zum Nachweis, dass mit diesen grammatischen Mitteln mehrheitlich spezifische Sprechereinstellungen ausgedrückt würden.

This diploma thesis deals with the use of non-fiction literature, specifically a visual guide titled To je Mnichov / München by Miroslav Sasek in teaching German as foreign language in primary schools. It consists of three parts, the first two being theoretical and the third one being practice-oriented. The first chapter delves into the general context of the issue and focuses on the position of the German language. It tackles four main aspects of teaching foreign language: the language as a communication medium, teaching grammer, uncovering culture and history and serving the general purpose of literary and intercultural education. The second chapter further follows the goal of seeing non-fiction literature as a potential source of knowledge and information about the country in focus. The third chapter presents an application of this theory, developer by the author of this thesis. The methodological approach is based on a document titled ABCD-Thesen published in 1990 in Leipzig which introduces the potential in using non-fiction literature in the form of projects. The last section of the thesis can also be used as a direct methododlogical manual for executing the project To je Mnichov / München in primary schools. Furthermore, this thesis can also be used as a based for teachers of other foreign...

Despite the fact that the creation of films has a place in language teaching, there haven’t been many studies about the learning outcome of such film production projects so far. In this study, a group of eighth grade pupils at a comprehensive school in Sweden have been creating their own film in German. They have been observed while they did so, and they answered an online survey one year after the project. The results of the analysis of that data show a visible increase in awareness for the purpose, the receiver, and the situation of the produced texts during the writing process. The level of motivation and meaningfulness experienced by the pupils during the film project was high. Furthermore, the finished film gave the participants a feeling of success, something they were proud of, and eager to repeat. As a conclusion it can be stated that creating a film in a foreign language has a positive impact on language learning.

This essay is about vocabulary learning strategies in German as a foreign language among students in two primary schools and one upper secondary school in the south of Sweden. The students in the primary schools were in the 9 th grade (15-year-olds) and the other ones in a more advanced language course (17-year-olds). Based on a digital questionnaire (Google Forms) the students were asked to answer questions about how they learn new words in German. Important aspects in this context were for example speaking, reading, writing and listening to new words. Some strategies werde I translate the words into Swedish, I compare German, Swedish and English words with the same meaning, I read the words out loud, I read the words quietly, I write my own sentences with the words. The students were also asked to give suggestions about the best way to learn new vocabulary. Answers were then categorized and analyzed. The results show that most of the students in the 9th grade sometimes used strategies like Translating the words, Reading and writing the words several times. The majority of the students in upper secondary school always used these strategies. Most of the students in the 9th grade never used the strategy Writing my own sentences. The majority in all three schools never used the strategy Sorting the words by word class. There were also differences between boys and girls concerning the choice of strategies.

Notre recherche vise à enrichir la réflexion didactique sur les modalités d’un enseignement susceptible de favoriser dès les premières années d’apprentissage de l’allemand au collège (soit en 6ème et en 5ème) la mise en place de préférences discursives spécifiques à la langue-cible. Plutôt que de nous focaliser sur le placement verbal second dans les énoncés déclaratifs, nous avons fait le choix de nous intéresser à l’ouverture et à la position préverbale. Il s’agit en effet d’un champ que des apprenants même avancés n’investissent pas de manière conforme, en dépit d’une maîtrise avérée des règles morphosyntaxiques de la langue-cible. Dans la mesure où, en allemand, la position préverbale n’est pas déterminée sur le plan syntaxique, il est nécessaire de recourir à des catégories textuelles ainsi qu’à des critères pragmatiques liés à l’organisation informationnelle des constituants pour comprendre les phénomènes qui président au choix de l’élément à l’ouverture. Partant de là, nous avons incorporé ces aspects aux tâches proposées dans le cadre du cours afin de susciter une mise en œuvre de ces principes et de modifier les préférences de traitement des apprenants. Le travail d’appropriation relève aussi de processus intrapsychiques qui posent certes des limites à l’intervention enseignante mais dont la prise en compte permet d’élaborer des propositions didactiques étayées sur le plan linguistique et psycholinguistique. Adossée à la recherche en acquisition des langues (RAL), notre étude s’appuie sur l’analyse des réalisations de l’ouverture dans un corpus de productions d’apprenants de manière à recomposer nos propositions d’intervention en fonction des observations recueillies sur le terrain et de telle sorte qu’elle s’accorde à une progression d’apprentissage. Des notions linguistiques plurielles nous ont ainsi permis de mettre en lumière et d’exploiter à des fins d’enseignement des fonctions spécifiques liées à l’ouverture de l’énoncé en allemand. La RAL offre à notre travail un cadre d’analyse, des résultats permettant de comprendre la dimension cognitive de l’apprentissage et des notions qui fournissent un étayage théorique aux propositions didactiques que nous formulons. / This study concerns the acquisition of language specific discourse preferences in the first years of German as a foreign language in French secondary schools, and how new approaches could improve language instruction. Instead of focusing on verbal placement in declaratives, we decided to consider how learners start a sentence; that is, which constituent they decide to put before the finite verb form. The initial field in German (called pre-field) represents a syntactically undetermined position as it can be occupied by a variety of elements. To understand the constraints which influence the choice of the first constituent in a sentence, textual categories, as well as pragmatic and information-structural criteria, are required. These aspects were incorporated in the tasks the learners worked on in the classroom, in order to make them use such principles, and to modify the processing preferences they may have built up during acquisition of their L1. Acquisition draws on internal processes which set limits to instructional intervention. Practitioners should take these limitations into account if they aim to elaborate instructional proposals with linguistic and psycholinguistic relevance. Drawing on findings from the SLA research, we analyse the beginnings of sentences in a corpus of written and oral learner samples. We used these empirical observations as a guideline to redesign proposals for an instructional intervention which better fits a learning progression. Notions from different aspects of linguistics contribute to highlight specific functions of sentence beginnings in German. It would be possible to integrate these functions in a teaching programme. SLA research offers a theoretical framework to our research, as the findings provide a better understanding of the cognitive dimension of learning and the notions constitute a theoretical backing for our didactical proposals.

[pt] Este trabalho investiga o emprego de podcasts de programas de rádio e televisão da Alemanha nas aulas de Alemão como Língua Estrangeira em níveis B2 e C1 do Quadro Europeu Comum de Referência para Línguas no Ensino Médio. Através desta tecnologia, é possível ter acesso rápido e gratuito a materiais autênticos de áudio ou vídeo, de forma que professores passam a ter um leque mais amplo de recursos para suas aulas e alunos passam a ter contato com a língua produzida com outros fins, que não didáticos. Considerando as proposições apresentadas nos Parâmetros Curriculares Nacionais para o Ensino Médio, os níveis de referência descritos no Quadro Europeu Comum de Referência para Línguas e os objetivos traçados no Rahmenplan Deutsch als Fremdsprache für das Auslandsschulwesen (Quadro de Alemão como Língua Estrangeira para as escolas no exterior), o trabalho discute o potencial e as limitações do uso desta tecnologia como ferramenta no processo de ensino e aprendizagem de Alemão como Língua Estrangeira no contexto escolar. A partir dos pressupostos da Teoria da Atividade, o trabalho procura investigar de que forma a implementação dos podcasts afeta o sistema da atividade da aula de Alemão como Língua Estrangeira nas perspectivas de professores e alunos em uma escola bilíngue da cidade do Rio de Janeiro. / [en] This dissertation investigates the use of podcasts in high school classes of German as a Foreign Language (GFL), in levels B2 and C1 of the Common European Framework of References for Languages. This technology provides for quick and free access to authentic audio or video materials taken from German radio and TV programs, so that teachers have a wider range of resources for their classes and students have contact with the language which was produced for purposes other than pedagogical ones. Considering the proposals in the Parâmetros Curriculares Nacionais para o Ensino Médio (National High School Curricular Parameters), the levels of reference of the Common European Framework of References for Languages, and the goals set in the Rahmenplan Deutsch als Fremdsprache für das Auslandsschulwesen (Framework German as a Foreign Language for schools abroad), this study discusses the potential and the limitations of the use of this technology as a tool for teaching and learning GFL in a bilingual school. Based on the principles of Activity Theory, this work aims to investigate how the implementation of podcasts affects the activity system of GFL classes from the teachers’ and students’ perspectives in a bilingual school in Rio de Janeiro.

Thesis Didactic work about the stories of Jim Button from Michael Ende with focus on literary and language education investigates the feasible utilization of a literary work within teaching a foreign language. Thesis is composed of both theoretical and practical part. In the theoretical part, attention is given to the importance of texts, especially literary texts, as means for teaching foreign language. In respect to the utilization of the literature within foreign language teaching, the thesis highlights the development of target competencies, improvement of language skills and the overall growth of student's personality. Literature is shown as a sphere competent to enrich the common language teaching with a literary experience and an intercultural aspect. Further, the thesis introduces Jim Button novels written by Michael Ende and their specifics from the point of view of their usage by teaching foreign languages. Last but not least, suggestions for work with the novel about Jim Button and Luke the Engine Driver are provided as an alternative teaching material for tuition of German language as a foreign language

Title: Teaching and Testing Writing. On the Common State School Leaving Exam in German Language. Author: Martina Kolářová Department: Institute of German Studies, Faculty of Arts, Charles University in Prague Superviser: doc. PhDr. Marie Vachková, Ph.D. Abstract: This thesis deals with the topic of writing ability in lessons of German as a foreign language in a context of a State-school leaving exam in German language. New model of this exam is managed centrally and its global character influences the school study in all grammar schools. The thesis concentrates on the way in which this exam influences the study and which consequences it has for the writing ability of students. The research gains the data mainly from the point of view of teachers, but it considers the student's point of view too and analyses results of their written exams. The concern in this topic is based on the current situation of modification of the state-school leaving exam in foreign languages and the criticism of its benefits for students and their study. The foreign language testing has a long tradition and counts to detailed researched fields of didactics which allows a global view on the issues in context of other foreign language exams and on teaching fields connected with testing which creates a theoretical frame of this thesis....