Lectures

The presentation will first deal with the definition and characteristics of cross-curricular DaF teaching (FüDaF), which is currently the subject of the INNOCLILiG research project at the University of Tampere/Finland, along with other variants of subject teaching, funded by the German Foreign Office in Berlin and led by Dr. Kim Haataja.

In addition, some short exemplary examples from the fields of music and art will be used to show that FüDaF does not only provide speaking prompts, but that the use of musical pieces and works of art awakens a creative potential in students that enables them to learn in a task- and project-oriented way. The promotion of a so-called educational and subject-oriented discourse ability, which is called for in current didactic literature and which enables students to acquire conventional forms of knowledge presentation and communication about it in the foreign language, also plays an essential role. The presentation will further illustrate that students readily rise to the challenge of negotiating meaning together in the target language as well, provided that the relevant topic matches their interests.

The materials presented are based on the following publications, which have been available since 2013 or are in preparation:

Wicke, Rainer/ Rottmann, Karin. (2012), Begegnungen mit Komponisten und Mal ern - Der Einsatz von Musik und Kunst im Deutsch als Fremdsprache Unterricht. Berlin: Cornelsen Verlag.

In preparation: Wicke, Rainer: Bilder im DaF-Unterricht, expected publication date: 2015.

(January 15, 2015, 1:15pm - 2:15pm)

"Painting Music" is the title of a book by Hajo Düchting (2004) about the Bauhaus artist Paul Klee, which deals with touches between music and visual arts. Similarly, this article addresses the relationship between DaF and artistic disciplines, especially theater arts.

The observation that teachers who teach German language, literature, and culture at universities are usually academically and not artistically trained leads to a plea for a greater opening of DaF to the arts and for training and continuing education concepts in which the teaching of a foreign language, literature, and culture is understood primarily as a creative-artistic activity.

Concrete examples from university foreign language teaching will be used to illustrate that drama pedagogy in the field of modern foreign languages is visibly paving the way for a new, performative teaching/learning culture.

Finally, it will be discussed to what extent the basic ideas of the Bauhaus artists' community, in particular its decidedly interdisciplinary orientation, could provide impulses for a forward-looking, explicitly artistic conception of DaF.