Goethe-Lab Sprache

Goethe-Lab Sprache

Focusing on the future,
not the status quo.

We are on a mission: the Goethe-Lab Sprache team is devoted to the further development of the online portfolio as a high-quality, tailor-made language program for German learners worldwide. The strategy? Including future-oriented technology and greater flexibility through a modular setup of digital learning options to achieve more client centricity and an optimal fit for each individual learner.

Lab News

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Artificial Intelligence in Foreign Language Teaching
How is the role of teachers changing as a result of the application of artificial intelligence?

Prof Dr. Torben Schmidt is an important voice in the field of digital foreign language learning. In an interview with Dr. Moritz Dittmeyer, he discusses the potential and the challenges of AI technologies in foreign language learning.

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Artificial intelligence in foreign language learning
AI Can’t Cut It: Correcting Language Learners’ Writing Still Has to Be Done by Hand

Many providers of AI writing assistants promise “high-quality writing at the push of a button”. Proofreading and editing software is now capable of instantly correcting reams of text and providing suggested improvements. But how good are these AI editors, and do they help foreign language learners learn to write well themselves?

About Goethe-Lab Sprache

Worldwide Network: Language experts, start-ups, German learners, scientific research institutions, Goethe-Institut, experts in digital transformation

User Research: Market research, surveys, usability tests, deep-dive interviews, design sprints

To meet changing habits and needs of international learners in our digital age, the Goethe-Lab Sprache places the main emphasis on the learner in the development of products and services. The early and continual involvement of learners ensures customized solutions for learning German in a digital environment.

Contact

Do you share our interest or consider yourself an expert on learning analytics, speech recognition software or automated text analysis?
Then, we’d be happy to hear from you:
goethe-lab@goethe.de.

Keep reading

Leo Sylvio Rüdian in his office working from home.

Machine Learning
Self-learning algorithm to benefit teachers and students

In a praxis-oriented research project, a self-learning program is trained to give automated feedback on open writing tasks performed by German language learners. It is not aimed at replacing teachers, but at making their work more efficient and allowing for a more personalized approach to learning a foreign language.

AI + Language

Couch Lesson
AI + Language

Language enables people to express feelings and thoughts. Language is what defines human beings - or does it? In recent years, Artificial Intelligence has made great progress in writing and translating texts independently. Does this make AI an author and interpreter? In the Couch Lesson AI + Language we asked a computer scientist, a computational linguist and an artist.

VR glasses in a library

Language learning in the future
“New technologies will change the way we learn”

Will we still bother to learn foreign languages in the future? Or will we simply have programs that translate languages for us simultaneously? How will digitization change the way lessons are designed? In our interview, trend researcher Peter Wippermann talks about possible ways in which (language) learning will develop in the future

Smart speaker

Goodbye to classroom teaching?
Artificial intelligence in language learning

Artificial intelligence is on the rise – as can be seen not only from the growing popularity of dialogue systems like Alexa. However, some key criteria still need to be met before it can serve as a substitute for a real-life language teacher: spontaneity, creativity and shared knowledge.

Illustration on Multilinguism with various persons, a smartphone and books

Machine translation
Multilingualism in the light of machine translation

Thanks to new findings in artificial intelligence research, the performance of machine translation has improved considerably in recent years. How does this technology work, what are its benefits, and what are its possible consequences for the educational ideal of multilingualism?

Students with digital devices in a classroom

A challenge for society as a whole
The digital turn in education

When the term digital turn is mentioned, the focus all too often is on the technical side. However, new methods and approaches to teaching and learning inevitably entail social transformations. An appeal for a more encompassing view.

Illustration: A man on a screen with books under one arm showing his index finger

Foreign language learning in the future
Will everything be digital?

How will we be learning foreign languages in 50 or 100 years’ time? What role will be played by digital media in the foreign language lessons of the future? And is it in fact possible to give meaningful answers to these questions today?

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