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Standards – Margins – New Horizons. Canons for 21st-century Teaching

Peter Schildhauer, Jochen Sauer, Anne Schröder, 2023.

Special issue (volume 5:3) of PraxisForschungLehrer*innenbildung (PFLB). Zeitschrift für Schul- und Professionsentwicklung.

Das Themenheft dokumentiert die Beiträge der gleichnamigen Konferenz , die im Frühjahr 2022 an der Universität Bielefeld stattfand. Diese stellen die Fortsetzung der ersten New Horizons-Konferenz vom Frühjahr 2019 dar, die 2020 als Themenheft der Zeitschrift PFLB (4. Jg., H. 2) dokumentiert wurde. Die Beiträge der „New Horizons II“ diskutieren die Frage, welche sprachlichen, literarischen und kulturellen Kanones für den Fremdsprachenunterricht des 21. Jahrhunderts in den neuen und alten Sprachen maßgeblich sein sollten. Sie widmen sich dabei auch der Problemstellung, welche impliziten und expliziten Kanones derzeitig ausgemacht werden können, welche Akteur*innen diese propagieren und welche Machtstrukturen daraus ersichtlich werden. Die Beiträge überlegen weiterhin, welche Kriterien und Leitlinien für die Canons for 21st-century Teaching genutzt werden können sowie welche konkreten Texte dabei in den Blick geraten. Übergreifend fragen die Beiträge außerdem, was fremdsprachliche Bildung im 21. Jahrhundert bedeutet und welche professionstheoretischen Implikationen sich daraus ergeben. Die neunzehn Beiträge sind in vier Sektionen gegliedert: Critical Literacy, Literaturwissenschaft und Literaturdidaktik, Sprache und Sprachvariation sowie Digitalität.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Gefördertes Projekt

A Pragmatic Profile of Namibian English (PraProNE): Exploring norms of communicative behaviour in a multilingual ecology

This project aims to fill a research gap that exists in the field of World Englishes (WE) as well as Variational Pragmatics (VP). Taking Namibian English (NamE) as its primary research object, it will construct a pragmatic profile of this African variety of English that characterizes the unique aspects of the pragmatic norms and practices entertained by its speakers. The methodological framework for this endeavour will be developed specifically for the case of Namibia, taking into account its particular linguistic ecology. At the same time, we envision the framework as a valuable tool for future research on the pragmatics of WE, one that can be adjusted to the specific parameters of other varieties while maintaining its methodological viability and principles.

The research project addresses the following desiderata: First, it will update the still nascent body on the pragmatics of African Englishes in general and NamE specifically, adding much needed data to the endeavour of compiling a comprehensive account of the pragmatics of Englishes worldwide. Second, in this it will pay specific attention to the impact of pragmatic transfer from a variety of first and second languages spoken in Namibia, underlining the relevance of this factor for the pragmatic description of multilingual, post-colonial language ecologies such as found in Namibia. To this end, it will thirdly develop a research methodology that serves these goals by adapting a robust empirical framework to the specific characteristics of the Namibian linguistic ecology, carried out in close collaboration with local research partners. This centrally includes a systematic and synergistic combination of quantitative and qualitative research methods, allowing us to adhere to the principle of contrastivity central to VP while properly taking into account the emic perspective and socio-cultural complexity of the language community in question. As a fourth point, this framework will function as a proposed blueprint for systematically introducing pragmatic inquiry into WE research, and establish a reliable starting point for further investigating the pragmatics of NamE, e.g. through natural language data or corpus methodology.

This project aims to fill a research gap that exists in the field of World Englishes (WE) as well as Variational Pragmatics (VP). Taking Namibian English (NamE) as its primary research object, it will construct a pragmatic profile of this African variety of English that characterizes the unique aspects of the pragmatic norms and practices entertained by its speakers. The methodological framework for this endeavour is being developed specifically for the case of Namibia, taking into account its particular linguistic ecology. At the same time, we see our framework as a valuable tool for future research on the pragmatics of WE, one that can be adjusted to the specific parameters of other varieties while maintaining its methodological viability and principles.

PraProNE addresses the following research desiderata: First, it updates the still nascent body on the pragmatics of African Englishes in general and NamE specifically, adding much needed data to the endeavour of compiling a comprehensive account of the pragmatics of Englishes worldwide. Second, in this we pay specific attention to the impact of pragmatic transfer from a variety of first and second languages spoken in Namibia, underlining the relevance of this factor for the pragmatic description of multilingual, post-colonial language ecologies such as found in Namibia. To this end, we are in the process of developing a research methodology that serves these goals by adapting a robust empirical framework to the specific characteristics of the Namibian linguistic ecology, carried out in close collaboration with local research partners. This centrally includes a systematic and synergistic combination of quantitative and qualitative research methods, allowing us to adhere to the principle of contrastivity central to VP while properly taking into account the emic perspective and socio-cultural complexity of the language community in question.

The project started in October 2022.

Third-party funding: DFG – Individual Grants Programme | Project Number: 497900728

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Gefördertes Projekt

Authentic Englishes. Verstehen. Beschreiben. Vermitteln.

Produktion von digitalen Lehr- und Lernangeboten zu verschiedenen Varietäten des Englischen für das Landesportal Digitale Hochschule NRW. Das Projekt wurde finanziert in der Förderlinie OERContent.nrw und erfolgte in Zusammenarbeit mit Prof. Dr. Ilka Mindt (Universität Paderborn), Prof. Dr. Ulrike Gut (Universität Münster) und Dr. Peter Schildhauer (Universität Bielefeld). Die Fördersumme betrug insgesamt ~500.000€.

Projektlaufzeit: 10/2020 - 03/2023

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Weitere Informationen zu diesem Projekt finden Sie hier.