Newsletter October 2022
Dear interested parties in the Key Competence Area Intercultural Interactions, Ladies and Gentlemen!
Today we are sending you the latest newsletter of the Key Competence Area Intercultural Interactions with news from our projects and from teaching in the past semester.You will find an overview of four topics below:
- Projects on the field of university communication
- News from the Lectorate German as a Foreign Language
- the International Writing Lab
- the Intercultural Learning Lab
We hope you enjoy reading and are happy to answer any questions or comments you may have.
Yours sincerely
Your Intercultural Interactions
University CommunicationThe following three projects, "Linguistically Competent into Studies," "Academic Fellows," and "German Digital," are particularly concerned with learning and teaching university communication for students. |
DAAD project "Linguistically competent into studies" launchedThanks to funding from the DAAD, OER materials for entering university will be developed at the Key Competence Area from October to December 2022. The project "Sprachlich kompetent ins Studium" is aimed in particular at refugees from Ukraine. More... |
Ongoing InnoPlus-Project "Academic Fellows"As part of the MWK funding 'Innovative Teaching and Learning Concepts: Innovation Plus', a project on the socialisation of first-year students is currently underway. More... |
Announcement: Workshop on the use of the DLS in foreign language teaching.On 15.11.22, the Deutsch Digital Team will hold a workshop on the use of digital OER in foreign language teaching in the colloquium of the Lectorate German as a Foreign Language. More... |
Revision of the Deutschlernsnacks: Offline phase and future useIn addition to creating new snacks, the Deutsch Digital team also always strives to revise and improve older learning modules. As of today, all published snacks are once again available to members of the university in their entirety. More... |
Publication of new DeutschlernsnacksWe are pleased to introduce two new additions to our Deutschlernsnack pool: "Foodsharing in Göttingen" and "Reading and Understanding Module Directories". More... |
Virtual Exchange for learning German – Göttingen and GalwayA new Virtual Exchange project of the Lektorat Deutsch als Fremdsprache and the University of Galway will start in winter semester 2022/23: students at both locations will learn German together (from level A2.2 CEFR) and exchange impressions and experiences from their study life. More... |
German language courses of the Lectorate German as a Foreign LanguageThe Lectorate German as a Foreign Language as a sub-area of the key competence area Intercultural Interactions offers a total of 46 German courses at the levels A1.1-C1.2 (CEFR) in winter semester 2022/23. More... |
Grüße aus dem Labor! Welcome to the Lab!In the Intercultural Learning Lab (ICL) we have started the winter semester with two current courses: Intercultural Competence Basic Course in German and Introduction to Intercultural Competence in English. Mehr... |
ENLIGHT Global Engagement Module GEM“I always find it enriching to be in an exchange with people from other backgrounds. GEM gave me the opportunity to not only learn about the topic itself but other disciplines and cultures” – this was noted by one student from this year´s participation in the GEM. More... |
DICE Conference – Towards Equity in Virtual ExchangeWe are very excited to take part in the panel discussion at the DICE conference that takes place from Nov. 30th to Dec. 2nd. More... |
MultiConText: Academic writing in a multilingual contextThe programme MultiConText of the International Writing Lab has been supporting multilingual students in their academic writing processes since summer 2015. MultiConText is aimed at students of all subjects. More... |
MultiConText: Learnings from the very digital timesEven though we returned to face-to-face mode for the most part last summer semester, in the long term we are integrating more digital elements into our formats in MultiConText. More... |
Review: Digital Days of Deferred Writing Projects from 19th to 21st September 2022For three days in September, ISL staff tried out a new format: During the Digital Days of Deferred Writing Projects, students were invited to write on their current projects from home in a structured way. More... |
Announcement: Workshop for teachers on supervising first student theses (in cooperation with the university didactics)The Writing Lab repeatedly receives enquiries from subject teachers who would like support in writing didactics for their seminars. In order to bundle and respond to this demand, the Writing Lab offers a workshop for teachers. More... |
Current research at ISL: Online writing adviceAn extensive data corpus has emerged from online writing consultations conducted and recorded during the digital semesters, for which research consents have been obtained from the participants. The data has so far been analysed under two questions: More... |
Cooperations of the ISL with subjects and other university institutionsAlthough the ISL is limited in what it can offer due to a lack of funding, it is fortunately able to initiate or revive new projects through cooperation with subjects. More... |
Interim result: The (no longer entirely) new certificate "Social Media Practice"The new ISL certificate entitled "Reflective Social Media Practice: Fundamentals, Application, Reflection" started in the winter semester 2021-2022. It bundles already existing ISL offers, supplemented by offers from the Intercultural Learning Lab and the ZESS. More... |
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