230630 Making (ex-)changes: Addressing sociocultural aspects of student exchanges. (S) (WiSe 2025/2026)

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Student exchanges have the potential to be intense experiences of cultural, social and personal learning with English often being the lingua franca of these encounters. To make the most of this potential, future language teachers should experience and reflect on how to prepare, conduct and evaluate exchanges in the English classroom. Based on different theories of (socio-)cultural learning and insights into research on exchanges, this course offers the chance to apply these theories to a specific practice: The course draws on a collaboration with the Laborschule Bielefeld, researching and developing their exchange with two Czech groups from Brno and Prague. Students participating in this course will be involved in the visit of the Czech groups to the Laborschule in late November 25.

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Frequency Weekday Time Format / Place Period  
weekly Fr 12-14   13.10.2025-06.02.2026

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Module Course Requirements  
23-ANG-AngPM1_HRSGe_GymGe Profilmodul 1 - HRSGe GymGe: Teaching English as a Foreign Language Media in the Communicative English Classroom Study requirement
Graded examination
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23-ANG-AngPM1_HRSGe_GymGe_ver1 Profilmodul 1 - HRSGe GymGe: Teaching English as a Foreign Language Media in the Communicative English Classroom Study requirement
Graded examination
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23-ANG-Profil1_HRSGe_GymGe Profilmodul 1: English Language Teaching (ELT) in Secondary Schools 3. Media, Literature and Culture in ELT (Secondary Schools) Study requirement
Graded examination
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23-ANG-Profil1_HRSGe_GymGe_ver1 Profilmodul 1: English Language Teaching (ELT) in Secondary Schools 3. Media, Literature and Culture in ELT (Secondary Schools) Study requirement
Graded examination
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To gain study credits, you will develop material supporting the different stages of an exchange at the Laborschule Bielefeld. Exam credits can be gained with oral exams or project/module papers reflecting on theories and practice of cultural exchange.

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seminar (S) / 2
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This lecture is taught in english
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Faculty of Linguistics and Literary Studies
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