Multicultural and multilingual Mediation (German language)

7.03.2025: On the concept of „intercultural mediation”; 14.03.2025; German as a medium of communication (L1, L2, Lingua Franca); 21.03.2025: German in the context of speech acts and interculturality; 28.03.2025: German in a variation-linguistic perspective/heterogeneous language use; 4.04.2025: German as (un)understandable language (easy and simple language); 11.04.2025: Sample analysis of texts & tasks for language mediation from; 25.04.2024: German as a Foreign Language textbooks/example analysis of language certification tasks; 9.05.2025: Mediation for specific target groups: Communication situation 1 (everyday life: doctor, everyday life);Communication situation 2 (study, profession, research etc); 16.05.2025: AI and mediation; The aim of the project is, on the one hand, to discuss techniques of the mediation on the example of the German language and, on the other hand, to demonstrate the socio-political relevance of language teaching in a globalised living and working environment.

Application Deadline

Virtual Part starting date 2025-03-07

Virtual Part closing date 2025-05-16

Total student workload 180

Specific field of studies Linguistics, Languages

Pre-requisite for selection CV Motivation Letter

Academic pre-requisites for applicants A2/B1; willingness to engage in intercultural cooperation both virtually and in-person; theoretical foundations oflanguage mediation; German linguistics

Physical Part starting date 2025-05-26

Physical Part Description The virtual activities take place in weekly meetings of 4 hours each, through which teachers can get to know the students, determine their level and interests. Students also get to know each other better, often working in groups and being given small tasks to solve. In virtual meetings, theoretical knowledge about mediation is passed on, but is then discussed at a practical level in group work tasks. The fact that the students come from several countries and the common language of communication is German makes the theme of multicultural mediation more tangible. Topics to be addressed - Applications in case-studies in communication situations and assignment of projects for the attendance phase. - On the concept of „intercultural mediation”; - German as a medium of communication (L1, L2, Lingua Franca); - German in the context of speech acts and interculturality; - German in a variation-linguistic perspective/heterogeneous language use; - German as (un)understandable language (easy and simple language); - Sample analysis of texts & tasks for language mediation from; - German as a Foreign Language textbooks/example analysis of language certification tasks; - Mediation for specific target groups: Communication situation 1 (everyday life: doctor, everyday life);Communication situation 2 (study, profession, research etc); - AI and mediation;

Physical Part closing date 2025-05-30

Language level required B1

Field of studies related to the course Social Science and Humanities

Course location Bucharest, Romania

Course language German