German Didactics Seminar
The contents of this curricular unit focus on concepts established by the specific didactics of German as a foreign language, namely the reading and treatment of texts that portray the society (or societies) in question and its/their relation with the evolution of teaching methodologies. The unit develops research skills, deepening simultaneously linguistic, cultural and literary forms of knowledge in order to enrich and consolidate the theoretical discussion. The analysis and debate of the six topics proposed will proceed progressively, not only aiming at the deepening of knowledge but also at developing the autonomy and the competences for investigation and encouraging research in groups and individually, which will allow for the preparation of a PhD project in the didactic field in question.
Foreign language teaching
Language competence
Intercultural competence
- To develop methodological and analytical competences based on work in class, through critical reading and individual tasks, in order to present projects and texts of investigation in the area of specific didactics - German as a foreign language which will allow the preparation of a PhD thesis in this field;
- To develop abilities to decodify and analyse relevant cultural spaces and manifestations in interaction with native speakers;
- To sensitize for linguistic, cultural and literary diversity in terms of maternal language and foreign laguage;
- To reflect on issues of teaching and learning in a multicultural pedagogical context;
- To analize and debate scientifically the function of linguistic competence in processes of integration or assimilation;
- To appreciate strange linguistic elements (interferences) as potentially enriching and innovative.
- Apreciação de elementos linguísticos estranhos (interferências) como potencialmente enriquecedores e inovadores.
1. Didactics as Science and in Teacher Training. (Methoden und Prinzipien der Fremdsprachendidaktik Deutsch / Interkultureller Ansatz)
2. Analysis of diferent methodologies explaining the social and cultural context of their emergence. (Konzepte von Mehrsprachigkeit, Tertiärsprachendidaktik: Sprachenlernbiographien und Sprachen(lern)bewusstheit)
3. The role of didactics in the development of linguistic and intercultural competences. (Mehrsprachigkeitsmodelle und Wortschatz)
4. Linguistic interferences in the writings of immigrants or of authors from culturally hybrid zones.
5. Literary techniques for defining identity in the process of integration or separation from the host society: the motif of the double (\'Doppelgänger\').
6. The double as \'avatar\' in social media and in education.
- Afonso, Clarisse Costa. (2010). Didáctica de Línguas Estrangeiras. Ramada:Pedago.
- Bär, Gerald. (2015). “Case Studies of Literary Multilingualism. Expressing Alterity in a Self-Referential Recourse to the Motif of the Double”, in Paradoxes du plurilinguisme littéraire 1900: réflexions théoriques et études de cas. Coord.: B. Benert, Bruxelles: Peter Lang.
- Bhabha, Homi K. (2004). The Location of Culture. Abingdon:Routledge.
- Heringer, H.J. (2007). Interkulturelle Kommunikation,Tübingen:A.Francke.
- Müller, N./Kupisch, T./Schmitz, K./Cantone, K. (eds). (2007). Einführung in die Mehrsprachigkeitforschung, Tübingen:Gunter Narr.
- Waldenfels, Bernhard. (1997). Topographie des Fremden - Studien zur Phänomenologie des Fremden 1. Frankfurt/M.:Suhrkamp.
- Wierlacher, A./Bogner, A. (eds). (2003). Handbuch interkulturelle Germanistik. Stuttgart: Metzler.
- Witte, Arnd. (2009). \"Die Sprache der Anderen - Fremdsprachenlernen im soziokulturellen Kontext\" GERMANISTIK IN IRELAND, 4: 53 - 73.
Classwork is theoretical and practical and includes exposition, demonstration, joint discussion and reflection on the curricular units\' topics and contents. Active student participation, both individually and in groups, will be privileged. The modules that compose the curricular unit are offered as blended learning, with limited classroom-based sessions scheduled at the opening of the course and online work. The cu includes material of 2 modules developed by the universities of Leipzig, Giessen e Darmstadt for e-learning: \"Methoden und Prinzipien der Fremdsprachendidaktik Deutsch\" e \"Konzepte von Mehrsprachigkeit, Tertiärsprachendidaktik\". Objectives, programmatic contents, resources and activities, as well as the assessment schedule, is stated in the Research Learning Contract posted on the platform.
Assessment is based on the frequency and quality of participation in classroom sessions, online forum discussions and on individually submitted written works.