French Didactics in Dialogue
Editors: Dr. Michael Frings, Jens F. Heiderich, Prof. Dr. Corinna Koch, Dr. Claudia Schlaak
ISSN 2191-8155 (print)
ISSN 2940-5734 (online)
French Didactics in Dialogue (FDD) is a series that presents the dialogue of all parties that are part of French lessons. Respective dialogues that were led due to the “French Didactics Conferences”, are made available for the interested expert audience. The first of these conferences took place in September of 2010 under the headline of “Varieties in French Language Teaching”. The characteristic that the project was built on, is the dialogue between university professors for French Didactics, French teachers, student teachers and senior students. Professors present their newest research results and gain immediate feedback in the consecutive discussion: From the teachers about the suitability for the teaching practice and from the students concerning potential and value but also about neuralgic points. Both the conferences and this series are based on our conviction that innovation and increase in quality for French Language Teaching is only possible if all parties interact and enter into a dialogue with each other to make a twofold feedback possible.
French Didactics in Dialogue complements the 2007 Magazine for Romance Languages and their Didactics (ZRomSD) and the 2006 series Romance Languages and their Didactics. The outer appearance is also similar due to the textual connection, differing from the other entries in its green color.
The editors:
Dr. Michael Frings teaches French, Mathematics and Latin at the Gutenberg-Gymnasium in Mainz. Furthermore, he is a lecturer for the Didactics of Romance Languages at Trier University and co-editor of the Journal for Romance Languages and their Didactics as well as the series Romance Languages and their Didactics . Work areas: didactics of multilingualism, varieties in the French Language from a didactic point of view, authenticity in Foreign Language Teaching, didactics of film and other media.
Jens F. Heiderich teaches German, French, and Ethics at the Frauenlob-Gymnasium in Mainz. For half of his teaching time, he is delegated for German Didactics at Trier University. Work areas: Didactics of literature, film and media, authenticity in Foreign Language Teaching, interdisciplinary work, Gender and Queer Studies, economics, and literature.
Dr. Corinna Koch is professor for the Didactics of Romance Languages at Westfälischen Wilhelms-Universität Münster. Furthermore she is the main editor of the Journal for Romance Languages and their Didactics. Work areas: Comics and the visual/reading comprehension in foreign language teaching, multilingualism and practical semesters.
Dr. Claudia Schlaak teaches at the University of Kassel and also works in the field of teacher training and educational research at the University of Potsdam. After studying to become a teacher of French, political education, Spanish and German as a foreign language (DaF/DaZ), she worked as a researcher at the universities of Potsdam, Heidelberg, Münster, Mainz and Kassel, and at the same time as a teacher at various schools. She is co-editor of the Journal for Romance Languages and their Didactics. Her current research focuses on multilingualism didactics, inclusion in foreign language teaching, digitalisation and creativity in foreign language literature teaching.