Abstract
The coronavirus crisis has changed not only the practice of language teaching in higher education, but also the languages themselves; the crisis is strongly reflected in language. This can be seen in neologisms, new word formations and in the linguistic landscape in general. All these phenomena should be creatively included in foreign language didactics. Using examples from German the paper deals with several tasks and exercises concerning the language of the corona crises, i.e. word formation, word play, forms of politeness and the communication of values.
Highlights
IntroductionTeaching has become largely digital and must rely even more on the independence and creative skills of students than was already the case in the modern teaching practice in higher education
Put the coronavirus pandemic has changed life at universities
The task of foreign language didactics is to use these challenges as opportunities
Summary
Teaching has become largely digital and must rely even more on the independence and creative skills of students than was already the case in the modern teaching practice in higher education. This is especially true in foreign language education. This means concretely: its widely visible linguistic impacts should be included in language teaching. Students should search for and evaluate material on the different topics. This should be achieved by creating corpora from the Internet, documenting linguistic landscapes in the public sphere and reflecting on existing studies. For students outside Germany, teachers should send photographs of the German linguistic landscape directly to them
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