Exploring One’s Own Digital Writing

Ein sprachwissenschaftliches Seminarkonzept zur Produktion, Analyse und Reflexion eigener digitaler Schreibpraktiken für angehende Deutschlehrkräfte

Abstract

What do prospective German teachers think about digital interactions and how do they convey this to their students in German lessons? The research-based teaching project “Grammar and School in the Digital Age” focuses on the students’ linguistic and autoethnographic examination of their own digital writing practices and the language ideologies associated with them. This paper presents the structure and content of the seminar and shows how students become both researchers and research participants by exploring their own data. The seminar is structured through subsequent blocks: 1. theoretical foundations; 2. empirical exploration of the students’ own digital writing practices; 3. development of a teaching concept. Empirical work on their own digital data (Block 2) fosters the students’ acquisition or enhancement of metalinguistic competencies and metapragmatic awareness. Reflection on and practical testing of transfer potentials for teaching German are modelled through the design of a teaching concept (Block 3). In addition to its linguistic dimension, the seminar is designed as an Open Science project: All seminar materials are publicly accessible as Open Educational Resources and the participants have the possibility to publish their results in Open Access.