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The Routledge Handbook of German Language Teaching book cover

1st Edition

The Routledge Handbook of German Language Teaching

Edited By Ruth Whittle Copyright 2025
354 Pages 21 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

354 Pages 21 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

354 Pages 21 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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The Routledge Handbook of German Language Teaching evaluates and addresses multifaceted, multilevel needs of students and teachers within teaching German as a foreign, as well as a second, language through taking a transcultural approach. Each contribution starts with the author situating themselves in the geographical and institutional context in which they teach as well as the way in which... Read more

List of Contributors

Preface

Part I: Overview 

1.      Contexts of Teaching German

2.      Linguistic and Cultural Competency in Context

3.      Communicating Across a Transcultural World: The Place(s) of Critical Terminology

4.      The Question of Linguistic Identity in India

Part II: Opening the German-Language World to the Learner Through Working With Literature and Theatre

5. Interculturality and Mediation: Literature as an Object of Learning in DaF/DaZ

6. Language-Sensitive Literature Teaching

7. Intercultural Literature in Germany Since the 1960s from a DaF Perspective

8. Multilingual Theatre in the German Language and Culture Class: Inviting Larners to Eplore Fuid Identities

Part III: Opening the German-Language World to the Learner Through Working With Film and Song

9. Language Learning Through Music in a Super-Diverse Culture

10. The Role of Short Films in Cultural Studies in Teaching German as a Foreign Language (DaF)

Part IV: A Critical Evaluation of Language Learning – Some Teachers’ Perspectives

11. Distance not Distant: Enriched, Enlivened Online Learning

12. A Critical Evaluation of the Digital Media Revolution in 2020/21

13. Inside the Classroom: Translating From and Into German

14. Developing Communication Skills Through Collaborative Learning in the German Language Classroom

15. A Voice and a Choice – Introducing Portfolio Assessment to German Courses at an Australian university

Part V: Difficult Histories in the German-Language Classroom

16. Exploring the Transnational in Teaching on the GDR in UK Higher Education

17. Teaching Germany’s 1968: New Questions and Directions

Part VI: Teaching, Learning and Evaluation in the Transcultural Classroom

18. The Changing Space of Germany in Turkey
based on an interview with Kerstin Reichardt, conducted by Silke Henkele:

19. What Integration? Refugees and Their Teachers Battle with ‘Integration’
based on an interview with Christiane Rösinger conducted by Silke Henkele, and with Claudia Hübner-Pitsela

20. Learning German as a Migrant in Austria: A Discussion of the Gap Between Research and Practice

21. Bridging the Gap: Fusing Language and Content Whilst Addressing Atudent Heterogeneity in Erasmus Courses at Potsdam University

22. The ‘Native Speaker’ Teacher: A Languages Professional in a Transcultural World

Index

Biography

Ruth Whittle is Associate Professor at the Department of Modern Languages, University of Birmingham, UK.

Angela Kalt was a lecturer in Anglistik and Amerikanistik at the Katholische Universität Eichstätt-Ingolstadt, Germany.

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