Deutsch-Polnische Erinnerungsorte im Kontext des Faches Deutsch als Fremdsprache an deutschen und polnischen Hochschulen

Abstract

German-Polish Realms of Memory in the Context of German as a Foreign Language in Polish and German Universities Abstract In search for concepts to stimulate integrated language and culturerelated teaching and learning processes in the foreign language classroom, it is worth paying attention to the vibrant concept of cultural memory. In a variety of ways, it encourages language and culture awareness training that is tightly connected with language learning. Realms of memory, acting as both products and markers of a complex cultural memory, can reveal to what extent (by whom, by which means, to what aims) cultural patterns and meanings are constructed, how they change, and under which circumstances they survive over long periods of time. Modern foreign language didactics should make use of this concept, especially given that realms of memory manifest themselves as, e. g., texts, pictures, sounds, architecture, historic and mythic persons, objects, terms and whole cultural concepts. Use of cultural memory opens up considerable didactic potential. This article contains a short overview of an ongoing project carried out by two German and two Polish universities, which aims at the discussion and utilisation of these issues in culture- and languagefocused academic contexts. ----- Bibliographie: Badstubner-Kizik, Camilla/Hille, Almut: Deutsch-Polnische Erinnerungsorte im Kontext des Faches Deutsch als Fremdsprache an deutschen und polnischen Hochschulen, JB historie, 1-2016, S. 79-88. https://doi.org/10.3224/jbh.v8-9i1.10