NJDII_003 Didactics of the German language

Faculty of Arts
Autumn 2025
Extent and Intensity
1/1/0. 4 credit(s). Type of Completion: k (colloquium).
In-person direct teaching
Teacher(s)
Ursula Dorothea Riedner, Dr. phil. (lecturer)
Mgr. Martina Trombiková, Ph.D. (seminar tutor)
Guaranteed by
Ursula Dorothea Riedner, Dr. phil.
Department of German, Scandinavian and Netherland Studies – Faculty of Arts
Supplier department: Department of German, Scandinavian and Netherland Studies – Faculty of Arts
Timetable
Wed 12:00–13:40 B2.51, except Mon 17. 11. to Sun 23. 11.
Prerequisites
The requirement for the participation in this class is a completed bachelor degree in german language or a comparable field of study and the conclusion of the seminars "NJDII_001 Didactics 1" and "NJDII_002 Didactics 2" and the observating stage "NJDII_004 Pedagogická praxe průběžná I".
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Course objectives
The seminar, which is aimed at student teachers, is designed to develop and expand competences for science-led decisions in practice. The aim of the seminar is to create a space that enables students to reflect on concrete possibilities for professional action using selected questions as examples and to examine and further develop them scientifically. The seminar follows the higher education didactic principle of research-based learning. Students can choose from a selection of academic topics or up-to-date discourses in the didactics of German as a foreign language, which they explore more intensively in group work over the course of the seminar. The aim is to explore interesting subject areas, formulate practice-relevant questions and develop approaches to dealing with them, alternating between analysing the academic literature and reflecting on the experience gained in practice. (Translated with DeepL.com)
Learning outcomes
In the various phases of work in the seminar, students learn to - to gain an overview of a current topic or discourse field of didactics as well as an insight into various related approaches and topics and to provide a report on these as part of individual and group work - identify practical aspects and problems relating to the subject area - define and reflect on terms - research further literature - formulate relevant questions - develop either a research project or a practical concept and prepare an exposé for it. They can thereby develop and expand the skills of a ‘reflective practitioner’ in the alternating, interrelated reflection of practice and theory. (Translated with DeepL.com)
Syllabus
The following current topics and areas of discourse in the didactics of German as a foreign language are available for selection for the course: (1) Multilingual approaches in foreign language teaching (2) Affective-emotional and subject-related aspects of learning and teaching German as a foreign language (3) Questions of grammar and vocabulary teaching (4) Aspects of aesthetic and culture-related learning in foreign language teaching (5) Teaching and learning German as a foreign language in the digital transformation Students gain deeper insight into the areas chosen by the groups either through their own intensive engagement in the working group or through reports from the working groups. Translated with DeepL.com (free version)
Literature
  • RÖSLER, Dietmar. Deutsch als Fremdsprache : eine Einführung. 2., aktualisierte und erweit. Berlin: J.B. Metzler, 2023, xvi, 345. ISBN 9783476058621. info
  • DOBSTADT, Michael and Ursula Renate RIEDNER. Literatur und andere ästhetische Medien in Deutsch als Fremd- und Zweitsprache (Literature and other aesthetic media in German as a foreign and second language). In Altmayer, Claus / Biebighäuser, Katrin / Haberzettl, Stefanie / Heine, Antje. Handbuch Deutsch als Fremd- und Zweitsprache. Stuttgart u.a.: Metzler, 2021, p. 394-411. ISBN 978-3-476-04857-8. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-476-04858-5_24. URL info
  • Handbuch Methoden im Fremdsprachenunterricht. Edited by Wolfgang Hallet - Frank G. Königs - Hélène Martinez. 1. Auflage. Hannover: Klett/Kallmeyer, 2020, 527 stran. ISBN 9783772712289. info
  • DECKE-CORNILL, Helene and Lutz KÜSTER. Fremdsprachendidaktik : eine Einführung. 3., vollständig überarbeit. Tübingen: Narr Francke Attempto, 2015, xiii, 318. ISBN 9783823369578. info
  • EDMONDSON, Willis and Juliane HOUSE. Einführung in die Sprachlehrforschung. Vierte, überarbeitete Aufla. Basel: A. Francke, 2011, xx, 379. ISBN 9783825235994. info
  • Handbuch Fremdsprachendidaktik. Edited by Wolfgang Hallet - Frank G. Königs. 1. Aufl. Seelze-Velber: Kallmeyer, 2010, 399 s. ISBN 9783780010537. info
  • JANÍKOVÁ, Věra. Methodik und Didaktik des Unterrichts Deutsch als Fremdsprache im Überblick (Methodology of German Language as a Foreing). 1st ed. Brno: Masarykova univerzita Brno, 2000, 97 pp. 3231/Pd-9/2000-17/92. ISBN 80-210-2344-9. info
Teaching methods
This is a weekly course. In the even-numbered weeks, regular plenary sessions take place together with the course leaders in the seminar room. The odd-numbered weeks are available for independent work in working groups. The seminar room can be used for this during regular course times. Alternatively, the working groups can also exchange ideas online. The work in the course includes the following social forms and activities: Classroom activities in the plenary phases (short presentations; joint brainstorming; reports from the working groups; plenary discussions; formulation of objectives for the next steps respectively); individual work (reflection on the working process in the forum; reading and excerpting specialised texts and - after comparing the excerpts in the group - revising them...); group work (group discussions; cooperative planning and writing; preparing reports from the working groups; further literature research...). Continuous active participation in working groups, regular independent work on assignments and at least 75% attendance are compulsory for the course. (Translated with DeepL.com)
Assessment methods
- Regular smaller homework assignments and forum contributions (at least 75%) - Group presentations - Written elaboration of the work results - alternatively in the form of a detailed exposé on a research paper OR in the form of a theoretically reflected practical concept.
Language of instruction
German
Study support
https://elf.phil.muni.cz/25-26/course/view.php?id=370¬ifyeditingon=1
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
Study Materials
The course can also be completed outside the examination period.
The course is taught annually.
Teacher's information
ELF-Kurs 2025/26
The course is also listed under the following terms Autumn 2020, Autumn 2021, Autumn 2022, Autumn 2023, Autumn 2024.
  • Enrolment Statistics (recent)
  • Permalink: https://is.muni.cz/course/phil/autumn2025/NJDII_003