Information and reflections from course instructors about using blogs in the foreign language classroom and in higher education courses, aimed at other secondary and HE teachers.
What was it like to be writing blog posts about linguistics for teenage readers? What do you think about your role as test readers? What was fun and inspiring about our school-university cooperation? What could be improved in the future? These were some of the questions our MA student bloggers...
At this semester’s Academic Open Day (Dies Academicus) on 17 May we had the opportunity to present the LaMa blog and school cooperation project to the interested public. MA student Hanna Bruns, secondary school teacher Timo Brede and BAEL staff members Stefanie Pohle and Pawel Sickinger gave a talk titled:...
Dear authors of the LaMa-Blog, Introducing linguistic topics to 16-18 year old pupils seems to be a very challenging task: Terms and aspects like “Broca’s and Wernicke’s area”, “aphasia”, “prosodic features”, “discourse markers” or “ideological square” do not necessarily catch the attention of teenagers, so I was very curious how...
Wednesday, 8 February 2017, 10.30am, conference room in Walter-Flex-Straße 3, Bonn: The pupils from our partner school Gymnasium zum Altenforst (GAT) have arrived with their teacher Mr. Brede, Prof. K. P. Schneider is there, and so is my colleague Pawel Sickinger. The MA students have set up their laptops, ready...
We at BAEL love acronyms… if they make up an existing noun (albeit with a slightly different spelling), even better! This cute Lama logo was created by my colleague Pawel Sickinger, who is not only a great linguist but also a talented illustrator! Without giving too much away before the...
(Image: Pixabay CC0) The semester is almost over, so everyone’s extremely busy: students are learning for the upcoming exams, and teaching staff like myself are pondering about the most suitable exam questions, helping students find or narrow down their term paper topics during office hours, planning our courses for the...
In case you wonder why some posts are password protected, and others appear only to disappear again after a couple of days: Don’t worry! Our blog is currently ‘work-in-progress’. The MA students are busy writing their posts, providing each other feedback, waiting for comments from the test readers (pupils from...
