Foreign Language Learning Outside School: Places to See, Learn and Enjoy(8 Inquiries in Language Learning)

Learning opportunities outside school are met with increasing interest. Not only the visual character of leisure time venues supports foreign language learning, but also their aesthetic quality is enjoyed by students and teachers. Other learning venues outside school like work places and places visited during stays abroad are appreciated for their interactional support. However, as the ten papers of this volume show, the opportunity to experience free choice learning and hence the chance for life-long learning has to be well balanced with the scaffolding and the sheltered space that language learners need. Only if this dove-tailing works out well, resources can be better used and students can benefit in terms of motivation, cultural awareness, and increased foreign language competence.

Table of Contents:
Contents: Markus Kötter: Work experience as an opportunity for language learning – Karin Sandwall: Starting with practice - workplace related second language learning in and out of school – Bärbel Diehr: Go out. Get involved. Gain experience. Teacher development in school placements abroad – Lotta König: Learning to teach English beyond the classroom - combining theory and practice in teacher training by preparing and accompanying a class trip – Christiane Lütge: Exploring cinema worlds - perspectives for and beyond the English as a Foreign Language classroom – Isabella Sabo/Dennis Haack: «Lean back and learn» - a Teaching English as a Foreign Language unit in the cinema on «This is England» – Ralph Olsen: Micro-scaffolding in theatre-oriented post-performance communication – Carola Surkamp: Experiencing plays as performances: the theatre as a place to learn outside of school – Heike Rohmann: Historical museums as learning sites in foreign language education and cultural studies – Jutta Rymarczyk: Foreign language learning with new technologies in the context of museum education.

About the Author :
Jutta Rymarczyk is Professor of English as a Foreign Language at Heidelberg University of Education. Her current research interests include CLIL programmes at primary and secondary level. This is closely connected to the use of works of fine arts in the EFL classroom and in museums.