Fabian Krengel

This seminar provides an overview of key concepts and principles of teaching English as a foreign language (TEFL). Among these concepts and principles are aspects such as theories of (second) language acquisition, communicative competences, the potential and methodology of using texts such as picture books, young adult novels, films and digital media in English language teaching (ELT) and developing cultural competences. Additionally, current debates on global education, education for sustainable development and approaches to assessment and evaluation will be reflected.

Prerequisites: none

Compulsory and additional reading material as well as a topic overview and schedule will be announced in the first session.

Credit requirements: Regular attendance, final exam.


Pflichtlektüre: Surkamp, Carola & Viebrock, Britta (eds.) (2018): Teaching English as a Foreign Language: An Introduction. Stuttgart: Metzler.

Global education brings educational relevance to the foreign language classroom through meaningful content based on real-world topics, including the climate crisis and ongoing violent conflicts. With its focus on languages and different cultures and perspectives, the foreign language classroom is an appropriate background for fostering global awareness.
This seminar offers participants the opportunity to experience a small-scale virtual exchange in an English as a lingua franca environment hands-on. Together with international student teachers*, we will discuss global issues, didactic approaches, and media (both fictional and non-fictional) in order to develop complex competence tasks. In the process, we will explore how the English language classroom may support the development of ambiguity tolerance and the role that controversial issues can play as didactic tools.
 
*The online exchange partners will be introduced in the beginning of the course.
 
Reading: Surkamp (2022): Bildung für nachhaltige Entwicklung im Englischunterricht. Grundlagen und Unterrichtsbeispiele.
Course requirement: term paper (approx. 9 pages)

Global education brings educational relevance to the foreign language classroom through meaningful content based on real-world topics. With its focus on languages and different cultures and perspectives, the foreign language classroom is an appropriate background for achieving global awareness.
This seminar will explore avenues for integrating discussions of current world events and controversial topics meaningfully and adequately into English language education.


Reading: Surkamp (2022): Bildung für nachhaltige Entwicklung im Englischunterricht. Grundlagen und Unterrichtsbeispiele.
Course requirement: term paper (approx. 9 pages)

This seminar provides an overview of key concepts and principles of teaching English as a foreign language (TEFL). Among these concepts and principles are aspects such as theories of (second) language acquisition, communicative competences, the potential and methodology of using texts such as picture books, young adult novels, films and digital media in English language teaching (ELT) and developing cultural competences. Additionally, current debates on global education, education for sustainable development and approaches to assessment and evaluation will be reflected.

Prerequisites: none

Compulsory and additional reading material as well as a topic overview and schedule will be announced in the first session.

Credit requirements: Regular attendance, final exam: 22 July 2025, 14-16 (Audimax).


Pflichtlektüre: Surkamp, Carola & Viebrock, Britta (eds.) (2018): Teaching English as a Foreign Language: An Introduction. Stuttgart: Metzler.

This seminar provides an overview of key concepts and principles of teaching English as a foreign language (TEFL). Among these concepts and principles are aspects such as theories of (second) language acquisition, communicative competences, the potential and methodology of using texts such as picture books, young adult novels, films and digital media in English language teaching (ELT) and developing cultural competences. Additionally, current debates on global education, education for sustainable development and approaches to assessment and evaluation will be reflected.

Prerequisites: none

Compulsory and additional reading material as well as a topic overview and schedule will be announced in the first session.

Credit requirements: Regular attendance, final exam.


Pflichtlektüre: Surkamp, Carola & Viebrock, Britta (eds.) (2018): Teaching English as a Foreign Language: An Introduction. Stuttgart: Metzler.

Global education brings educational relevance to the foreign language classroom through meaningful content based on real-world topics. With its focus on languages and different cultures and perspectives, the foreign language classroom is an appropriate background for achieving global awareness.
This seminar offers participants the opportunity to experience a small-scale virtual exchange in an English as a lingua franca environment hands-on. Together with international student teachers in Türkiye and Israel, we will discuss global issues, didactic approaches, and media (both fictional and non-fictional) in order to develop complex competence tasks.

Reading: Surkamp (2022): Bildung für nachhaltige Entwicklung im Englischunterricht. Grundlagen und Unterrichtsbeispiele.
Course requirement: term paper (approx. 9 pages)

This seminar provides an overview of key concepts and principles of teaching English as a foreign language (TEFL). Among these concepts and principles are aspects such as theories of (second) language acquisition, communicative competences, the potential and methodology of using texts such as picture books, young adult novels, films and digital media in English language teaching (ELT) and developing cultural competences. Additionally, current debates on global education, education for sustainable development and approaches to assessment and evaluation will be reflected.

Prerequisites: none

Compulsory and additional reading material as well as a topic overview and schedule will be announced in the first session.

Credit requirements: Regular attendance, final exam.

Required reading: Surkamp, Carola & Viebrock, Britta (eds.) (2018): Teaching English as a Foreign Language: An Introduction. Stuttgart: Metzler.

This seminar provides an overview of key concepts and principles of teaching English as a foreign language (TEFL). Among these concepts and principles are aspects such as theories of (second) language acquisition, communicative competences, the potential and methodology of using texts such as picture books, young adult novels, films and digital media in English language teaching (ELT) and developing cultural competences. Additionally, current debates on global education, education for sustainable development and approaches to assessment and evaluation will be reflected.

Prerequisites: none

Compulsory and additional reading material as well as a topic overview and schedule will be announced in the first session.

Credit requirements: Regular attendance, final exam (date, time, room tba).

Pflichtlektüre: Surkamp, Carola & Viebrock, Britta (eds.) (2018): Teaching English as a Foreign Language: An Introduction. Stuttgart: Metzler.

Global education brings educational relevance to the foreign language classroom through meaningful content based on real-world topics. With its focus on languages and different cultures and perspectives, the foreign language classroom is an appropriate background for achieving global awareness.
This seminar offers participants the opportunity to experience a small-scale virtual exchange in an English as a lingua franca environment hands-on. Together with international student teachers in Turkey, we will discuss global issues, didactic approaches, and media (both fictional and non-fictional) in order to develop complex competence tasks.

Reading: Surkamp (2022): Bildung für nachhaltige Entwicklung im Englischunterricht. Grundlagen und Unterrichtsbeispiele.
Course requirement: term paper (approx. 9 pages)

Global education brings educational relevance to the foreign language classroom through meaningful
content based on real-world topics. With its focus on languages and different cultures and perspectives, the foreign
language classroom is an appropriate background for achieving global awareness.
This seminar offers participants the opportunity to experience a small-scale virtual exchange in an English as a lingua
franca environment hands-on. Together with student teachers from Israel and Turkey, we will discuss global issues,
didactic approaches, and media (both fictional and non-fictional) in order to develop complex competence tasks. 

Literatur: Surkamp, Carola (Hrsg.) (2022): Bildung für nachhaltige Entwicklung im Englischunterricht. Grundlagen und
Unterrichtsbeispiele. Hannover: Klett-Kallmeyer. 

Prüfungsform: Klausurähnliche Hausarbeit.

Global education brings educational relevance to the foreign language classroom through meaningful content based on real-world topics. With its focus on languages and different cultures and perspectives, the foreign language classroom is an appropriate background for achieving global awareness.
This seminar offers participants the opportunity to experience a small-scale virtual exchange in an English as a lingua franca environment hands-on. Together with international student teachers*, we will discuss global issues, didactic approaches, and media (both fictional and non-fictional) in order to develop complex competence tasks.

*Participants will be located in Israel and Türkiye. Details TBD.

Reading: Surkamp (2022): Bildung für nachhaltige Entwicklung im Englischunterricht. Grundlagen und Unterrichtsbeispiele.
Course requirement: term paper (approx. 9 pages)

This course centers around clarifying the concept of culture, including current discussions about culture with a ‘little c’,
interculturality, transculturality and global education. We will look into different models of cultural competence (such
as intercultural communicative competence and symbolic competence), develop ways to foster cultural learning in the
classroom and practice them hands-on, for example with the help of role-plays and literature.

Students wanting to attend this course must have passed the Einführungsvorlesung “Introduction to ELT”! 

Credit Requirements: Assessment will be based on active in-class participation and a presentation.