Lectures

The presentation will begin by looking at the definition and characteristics of interdisciplinary GFL teaching (FüDaF), which is currently the subject of the INNOCLILiG research project at the University of Tampere/Finland, which is funded by the Federal Foreign Office in Berlin and led by Dr. Kim Haataja.

In addition, a few short examples from the fields of music and art will show that FüDaF not only provides opportunities for speaking, but that the use of pieces of music 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 so-called educational and subject-oriented discourse skills, which is called for in current didactic literature and enables pupils to acquire conventional forms of knowledge presentation and communication in the foreign language, also plays an important role. The presentation will also make it clear that students are willing to take up the challenge of negotiating meaning together in the target language, provided that the topic in question corresponds to 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 Malern- 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, 1:15 p.m. - 2:15 p.m.)

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

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

Using concrete examples from higher education foreign language teaching, it will be illustrated that drama pedagogy in the field of modern foreign languages is increasingly 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 GFL.