BGE at Vision Summit 2012

On Friday (May 18) Bea Klüsener and I will present Basic Global English at the Vision Summit 2012.

 

Time: 15:50-16:30h

Venue: University of Potsdam, Campus Griebensee, Room S 17

 

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Trainings on Academic English and LdL

Recently I gave two trainings:

• a workshop for university teachers at the University of Jena who wanted to get to know interactive methods for teaching an interculturally mixed student group (using English as a means of intercultural communication) — apart from the idea of Global English, we also discussed LdL.
• a lecture on LdL for a general audience (in Munich), many participants were teachers at primary or secondary school.

Both events were very interesting as participants were very rapidly convinced of the fundamental ideas of both of Global English and of LdL. Consequently, we could soon enter a discussion on „problematic/tricky“ cases (lack of student motivation, hyperactivity, shyness, heterogeneity). This forced me to quickly find possible solutions according to LdL in a rapid way. I’m happy that the participants seemed convinced that LdL also works for such tricky cases and that they were satisfied with the entire event. As a matter of fact, the organizors already said they wanted to continue our cooperation.

 

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LdL for training knowledge transfer competence

At a conference of applied linguists a few days ago I presented LdL with the help of video clips from my own courses. The goal was to show that LdL is an effective and efficient method to provide students with competences in expert-expert communication and expert-layperson communication (in other words: knowledge transfer competence).

International Presentation of LdL and BGE

Last week I was at a conference of the Senat der Wirtschaft (Senate of the Economy) in Austria.

LdL recently

LdL has recently attracted attention again. Yesterday, Christian Spannagel gave an internet-mediated talk on wikis, weblogs and Twitter at the GAL conference (German association of applied linguists).

LdL Day in Ludwigsburg

Last Saturday, Jean-Pol Martin and I were invited to give the two keynote speeches on LdL at a conference that Christian Spannagel and his team had organized. Materials, reports and videos (including my own speech) are available on Christian Spannagel’s LdL site.

In addition, Lutz Berger has published a teaser for my speech on YouTube:

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English Information on LdL on YouTube

I’ve videotaped an interview in which I present LdL in English and put it on YouTube:

Part 1:

Part 2:

Part 3:

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BGE on YouTube

On YouTube you have access to two video files in which I present BGE and react to some common points of criticism against BGE:

Part 1:

Part 2:

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Talks on LdL at conferences in Heilbronn and Bregenz

Last Saturday I gave a one-hour talk on Lernen durch Lehren (LdL), with video clips from the 4th and the 2nd class, at the 6th Heilbronner Bildungskongress—in front of an audience of 600 people. There were also people in the audience who told very positively from their own experiences with LdL. Jean-Pol Martin, too, talked in front of a large audience (300 people) at Bregenz recently. These events are proofs for the growing acceptance and use of LdL and also for the dissemination and promotion of LdL.

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BGE at a conference in Freiburg

Last Friday I gave a talk on Basic Global English at a linguistic conference in Freiburg in front of about 40 people. Several colleagues gave me positive feedback and it seems that more colleagues are interested and willing in cooperating with me.

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