A Guide for GFL Teachers
Navigating the Labyrinth of Multilingual Learning
How to make lessons engaging and interactive? What methods are best suited to offer students support in reaching their goals? How to confront the challenges in your everyday teaching practice? Our practical tips have got you covered.
Discover practical insights into methodology and didactics: International authors contribute current perspectives on professional GFL and GSL topics, offering valuable input for teaching and learning.
For many people, multilingualism is part of their lived reality. In the early stages of life, it facilitates greater mental flexibility and empathy, whereas in later life it counteracts mental deterioration processes. Culturally sensitive behavior, identity and belonging, career opportunities, mobility – the topic encompasses many aspects.
Technology will make the teacher's tasks easier, make lessons more effective and interesting, and give all the people better chances to learn, understand and utilize foreign languages. Is that really true? What do we have to consider, discuss as a society or where is social governance necessary?
How do we achieve sustainable language teaching and learning? How do the sustainability goals of Agenda 2030 reflect in language teaching and learning? And how can sustainability in teaching professions be attained?
The dossier assembles thoughts and suggestions on this vital topic.
How specific do professional language skills need to be, how can they be acquired, and how can they be evidenced?
The dossier looks at these questions from different perspectives.
The “Viewpoints on the Learning and Teaching of German as a Foreign Language” issued by the Language Advisory Board are intended to provide food for thought and to provoke reflection.