Linguafolio unterm D-A-CH: Sprache und Landeskunde in Deutschland und Österreich
The 2008 seminar has been cancelled.
Sommer in Sewanee, a two-week German language and culture seminar, is an exciting opportunity for high school teachers, graduate students and teaching assistants, undergraduate college, and upper level high school students. This full immersion program is designed to enhance participants' knowledge of German language and German speaking cultures through small group instruction, lecture, film, and discussion. The instructor team will be modeling proven, research based strategies and methods providing participants with lessons that address background knowledge, discussion, active learning opportunities, and technology. Participants improve their language competencies and acquire best practices while catching up on recent cultural and political trends.
The cultural topic explores the diversity of the German speaking countries with presentations by guest speakers, film screenings, and small group discussions. Participants will have the opportunity to develop classroom materials and practice their language skills in a full immersion environment. Language courses are offered on the intermediate and advanced level.
The 2008 topic combines the LinguaFolio initiative of the Southeastern United States with Europe's DACH-concept of teaching German, Austrian and Swiss culture under one roof. LinguaFolio is a document in which those who are learning or have learned a language can record and reflect on their language learning and cultural experiences. Our seminar responds to the teachers' need to find an easy approach and materials, which can be incorporated into their regular curriculum. After they finish the course, the teachers will have a set of teachable materials.
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The seminar is offered by the Consortium for German in the Southeast, the Goethe Institute Atlanta, the Austrian Cultural Forum New York, the Austrian Federal Ministry for Education and Cultural Affairs (Bundesministerium für Unterricht und kulturelle Angelegenheiten), The Halle Foundation, Atlanta, in cooperation with the University of the South, Sewanee, Tennessee.
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