Laurenz Volkmann – författare

Human imagination is saturated with monsters. They represent, in a number of ways, those that have been historically perceived as strangers to the human community. It is a game of alterities wherein female monsters have occupied a particularly relevant position. Women have been historically represented as the Other in this human/nonhuman dyad. In the present study nineteenth- and twentieth-century vampires’ and zombies’ narratives have guided the analysis of a contemporary neo-gothic artefact: Anita Blake: Vampire Hunter by Laurell K. 　Hamilton. This book argues at the intersection of feminist literary analysis and cultural studies methodology, and it also considers queer notions of fluidity and performativity. The author sets out that Anita Blake: Vampire Hunter represents a twenty-first-century series questioning social norms and envisioning worlds of freedom.

Drawing on experiences of the COVID-19 pandemic, this volume presents international and interdisciplinary perspectives on intercultural learning, diversity and equity in teacher education. With contributions from teacher educators from different fields and contexts, it explores the various challenges posed by the pandemic and reflects on the opportunities for teacher education in (post-)pandemic and (post-)digital times. Contributors present conceptual considerations and practical examples from (post-)pandemic times and share insights from different projects that have emerged from the sudden need to adapt to a (post-)digital world.

This book aims to provide a detailed study of young adult fiction concentrating on Mexican teenage (im)migrants to the United States and their search for identity. In its quest to define young adult (im)migration literature as a genre, the first chapter combines and questions classifications provided by literary scholars and educational scientists. The second chapter explores crucial factors which impact the protagonists’ transcultural identity construction. The third chapter engages in theory mixing: Louise Rosenblatt’s reader-response theory, the critical literacy approach of the New London Group, influences from the field of cultural studies and a model of literary competences are merged into an innovative theoretical framework that forms the basis of the teaching sequence presented.

This book uses some of Doris Lessing’s fictional texts as a springboard for making new contributions to the study of ageing, and more specifically, on the ageing of women. Lessing’s fiction invites a critical political, cultural and ethical reflection at the intersections between literature and culture in the final years of the twentieth century and the first few of the current one. Lessing’s narrative reflects on the complexity of older women’s lives, their acquiescence or disagreement with social norms, and how to negotiate the effects of the passage of time. The four chapters and conclusion discuss the various elements that serve as indicators of the well-being or ill-being of this diverse human group, including health, place of residence, neighbourliness, financial situation, public policies, and nature of relationships.

This volume contains copy-ready sheets with work instructions and solutions for teachers of students in upper-level secondary-school English courses. "Lord of the Flies", "The Cement Garden", "The Buddha of Suburbia" – this volume provides materials for teaching three of the most important and most widely taught literary works in English courses in German schools. The individual worksheets are conceived to correspond to the language competences demanded by the curricula of the individual German states, such as describing, explaining, reasoning, discussing, etc. Concrete didactical advice is also given to guarantee quick and practical application of the information. The themes of growing-up, dealing with death, isolation, multiculturalism, racism and the search for one''s own identity allow teachers to work in a multidisciplinary fashion.

Teaching English covers all of the major issues and current trends in language learning and teaching, such as the trends toward empiricism, constructivism, differentiation, learner- and output-orientation, intercultural learning, and the use of multimedia. This book bridges the gap between the suggestions of theoretical approaches to foreign language teaching and the practical needs of both the educators (regardless of the institutions they are teaching and the experiences they have gathered) as well as the students. It will help readers profit from the materials and reflected practices for use in their own classrooms. And lastly, the book offers optimal preparation for exams in university courses and in teacher-training seminars.

This foundational coursebook offers an accessible and up-to-date introduction to all relevant areas of Teaching English. Definitions and practical examples guide the understanding and reflection of basic and advanced concepts of foreign language learning. The fully revised second edition responds to new developments in language education: (1) Recent policies from the Kultusministerkonferenz and updates of the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages with its Companion Volume (2020) pay more attention to language awareness, mediation, and media literacy. (2) New empirical research explores the aims, methods, and impact of professional teacher education, Task-Based Language Teaching, and Content-and-Language-Integrated Learning. (3) The dramatic need for online teaching has met with refined concepts of multimodal media competence and cutting-edge tools for the digital classroom. This essential introduction and the PowerPoint presentations online facilitate multimodal teaching and learning.

Der Autor dieses Bandes, viele Jahre an Schule und Universität tätig, davon mehrere Jahre in englischsprachigen Ländern, liefert hier einen inhaltsbezogenen Überblick zur englischen Fachdidaktik. Die Vermittlung interkultureller kommunikativer Kompetenzen steht dabei in unmittelbarem Zusammenhang mit der Vermittlung kultureller Inhalte (zielkulturelle Themengebiete, aber auch global issues). Der Band verbindet Fragestellungen zu repräsentativen und exemplarischen Unterrichtsthemen mit denen der adäquaten Methodik. Theoretisch fundiert, aber dennoch pointiert und mit zahlreichen lebendigen Beispielen versehen, liefert er dem Leser bzw. der Leserin klare Vorgaben zur Gestaltung motivierenden Unterrichts. Zugleich regt der Verfasser an zur eigenen Stellungnahme angesichts der neuen Herausforderungen des Englischunterrichts (Globalisierung, Neue Medien, Englisch als lingua franca).

Teaching English covers all of the major issues and current trends in language learning and teaching, such as the trends toward empiricism, constructivism, differentiation, learner- and output-orientation, intercultural learning, and the use of multimedia. This book bridges the gap between the suggestions of theoretical approaches to foreign language teaching and the practical needs of both the educators (regardless of the institutions they are teaching and the experiences they have gathered) as well as the students. It will help readers profit from the materials and reflected practices for use in their own classrooms. And lastly, the book offers optimal preparation for exams in university courses and in teacher-training seminars.

Dieses Narr Studienbuch ist die erste Zusammenfassung eines hochaktuellen und immer wieder diskutierten Themas in der Fremdsprachendidaktik und -forschung. Es hebt die Bedeutung von Musik im Fremdsprachenunterricht umfassend und illustrativ sowie praxisnah hervor und gibt einen konzisen Überblick über die vielfältigen Einsatzmöglichkeiten von Musik und musikalischen Elementen im Kontext des Lernens und Lehrens von Fremdsprachen. Damit stellt es nach ähnlichen Konzeptbänden zum Einsatz von Filmen und zu unterschiedlichen Formen der literacy eine wichtiges Novum sowie eine Ergänzung dar. Neben einem kompakten Überblick zu theoretischen Dimensionen, Modellen und Konzepten zur Thematik beantworten die Genrekapitel praxisorientierte Fragen zum didaktisch-methodischen Einsatz von beispielsweise Liedern, Musikvideoclips oder Instrumentalmusik und zeigen multiperspektivisch verschiedene literatur-, kultur- und mediendidaktische sowie interkulturelle und kompetenzorientierte Zugänge zu Musik im FU auf. Jedes Kapitel zeigt modellartig praxisrelevante Beispiele auf. Alle Ausführungen wie auch die unterrichtspraktischen Beispiele beinhalten einen Querschnitt verschiedener moderner Fremdsprachen (Englisch, Französisch, Spanisch, Italienisch, Portugiesisch, Russisch sowie Deutsch als Fremdsprache), so dass sich Fremdsprachenstudierende, Fremdsprachen- wie MusiklehrerInnen in Ausbildung und Beruf sowie Musik- und Spracheninteressierte angesprochen fühlen.

This volume contains copy-ready sheets with work instructions and solutions for teachers of students in upper-level secondary-school English courses. "Lord of the Flies", "The Cement Garden", "The Buddha of Suburbia" - this volume provides materials for teaching three of the most important and most widely taught literary works in English courses in German schools. The individual worksheets are conceived to correspond to the language competences demanded by the curricula of the individual German states, such as describing, explaining, reasoning, discussing, etc. Concrete didactical advice is also given to guarantee quick and practical application of the information. The themes of growing-up, dealing with death, isolation, multiculturalism, racism and the search for one's own identity allow teachers to work in a multidisciplinary fashion.