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In the Magazin Sprache, you will find current articles on learning and teaching German as a foreign language: practical tips and expert insights for trainers and teachers.

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Language teaching and didactics

  • An inquiry-based approach to language teaching

    Task-based language teaching: basic principles and misunderstandings

    Task-based education is an inquiry-based approach to language teaching: learners are given plenty of opportunities to expand their language competences by performing meaningful reading, writing, listening, speaking and interaction tasks. During the past 40 years, task-based language teaching has become popular, but a number of myths and misunderstandings have emerged around it. I would like to discuss these in this article.

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  • Language Certificate

    New routines for exam prep

    Are routines boring? Not in the least! They can help structure our everyday language-learning efforts and are an important and effective process in natural learning. Working authentic materials into your learners’ everyday lives is the best preparation for the Goethe, telc and ösd C1-level exams.

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Digital and mobile forms of learning

  • AI in schools

    “Mistakes are now corrected by AI”

    Last year, teacher Hendrik Haverkamp explained in DIE ZEIT how ChatGPT is transforming teaching. What has happened since then? A discussion about the time-saving benefits of artificial intelligence and how it may spell the end of homework.

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  • Teacher Training Podcasts

    Learning on the Go with Podcasts in Your Pocket

    Can we learn new things on the go, whilst going for a walk, exercising or doing household chores? Yes, with podcasts! 

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Language policy, society and perspectives

Language Policy

German Language Teachers Are Key

Worldwide an additional four thousand German teachers are needed. Language skills are the key to successful integration for immigrant students and skilled workers.

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Language in context

Multilingualism in the Classroom

A multilingual approach as an opportunity in modern foreign-language education

Despite increasing attention to multilingual approaches, teaching is still often based on a monolingual approach. Learners’ languages can bridge to the target language and make lessons more inclusive and effective – if used intentionally.

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  • Multilingual didactics

    Multilingual Approaches to Teaching German

    Learners of German as a foreign language often have a wide range of prior language skills: their native language, English or other foreign languages they’ve learnt at school, or expressions they’ve picked up whilst travelling or at work. A multilingual approach can take advantage of these various language skills to help German learners. 

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  • German as a second language

    Linguicism in the Teaching of German as a Second Language

    How does discrimination against languages and their speakers manifest itself? And how can teachers combat various forms of “linguicism” in the classroom? This is the focus of a Vienna-based association called Migrationspädagogische Zweitsprachdidaktik.

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