This introductory section of the course is meant to give you a first impression of how the course works, who the people are and which tools we are planning to use. Moreover you will find a short introduction into the ideas of sustainable foreign language teaching and learning and into our thoughts about the topic Media usage and media literacy.
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Generally, many language learners focus a lot on speaking. They don’t spend as much effort on listening. As listening to a foreign language is not as easy at it seems (due to different tones of voice, dialects, origins, etc.), listening is a vital skill for language learning.
I really like the term “listening by heart”. Although it’s obvious that this transforms into spoken language, for example when we first speak or learn a new language in early childhood, this is often “forgotten”, like Steffi says the focus lies on speaking.
The importance of not needing know the meaning/spelling of every word, but being able to understand the story/text anyway gives a lot of freedom and helps me to refocus regarding the outcome of language teaching.