Student projects
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Selected student projects are presented here. On the one hand, these are materials and tools that our GFL students have developed as part of the application module AM2 ("Research project") or results that they have obtained in their research. On the other hand, they are products of student work that have been developed as part of other modules, but especially in connection with the specialization module VM4 ("Current trends and developments").
As part of the AM2 seminar in summer semester 2025, 13 international Master's students created a podcast about their own department. In a total of five 30-minute episodes, the students conducted interviews with all the key players in the department: from department heads, lecturers and students to writing consultants and administrative staff from the secretariat and the examinations office.
Service Learning in German as a foreign and second language (DaFZ) in the winter semester 21/22: Development of knowledge- and language-sensitive, digital exploration tours to Kassel's places of remembrance in cooperation with the Stadtmuseum Kassel
But how do you organize "excursions" with GFL students in such a way that they are optimally prepared for the communicative challenges on site?
FörLeSch, short for "Promotion: Reading and Writing", is an initiative launched by students on the Master's degree program in German as a Foreign and Second Language at the University of Kassel with the aim of bringing refugees together with students from the DaFZ department. In addition to homework supervision, the DaFZ students support the young people in the area of oral and literary skills(literacy). FörLeSch is supported by Junior Professor Dr. Christine Czinglar.
Due to the current refugee situation, the proportion of newly arrived pupils has risen sharply. So-called lateral entrants place high demands on teachers due to their heterogeneous previous education.
In the project seminar, which was carried out in the summer semester of 2016 under the direction of Junior Professor Christine Czinglar and financially supported by the Central Teaching Fund (Teaching Innovation), students investigated DaZ lessons with lateral entrants as part of excursions to two best practice schools in Schleswig and Munich and two schools in Kassel.
The project "A voice that everyone understands...", carried out by four Kassel students of the Master's program German as a foreign and second language Linda Alphei, Astrid Lange, Kelly de Oliveira and Vimansani Pathirana, focused on action-oriented German learning at cultural locations in Kassel with unaccompanied minor refugees (UMF).
The aim of the project was to test the use of the "ich-will-deutsch-lernen" portal in order to integrate it into lessons in the future. A further aim was to make suggestions for improvement to the providers and authors of the portal in order to make the e-learning portal even easier to use.