Intro to German: First Encounters (Critical / Creative Engagement) [Tasks, Pedagogical Strategies]

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Intro to German First Encounters(Critical /
Creative Engagement)Tasks, Pedagogical
Strategies

• Playing with language
• Writing and/or performing poems, rhymes.
• Role playing, creating and performing skits.
• Readers theater.
• Drawing or acting out idiomatic expressions.
• Confronting difference
• Journal writing / email discussion of what one
  finds foreign, alien, strange.
• Reflection on cultural/national stereotypes.
• Ethnographic inquiry (interviews, email
  partnerships, chat-rooms with native speakers and
  with Americans studying abroad) and analysis.
• Making Connections
• Drawing connections between language forms and
  communicative intent (e.g. with concrete poetry).
• Attending to historical/cultural embeddedness of
  language (e.g. das Volk).
• Guest speakers from within or outside department
  to discuss content from discipline (e.g. linguist
  past tenses, medievalist poetry, historian
  Holocaust.