LESLLA Spring Coffee Break 2024

LESLLA invites you to the online Spring Coffee Break   
16:00 UTC   May 17, 2024.

Franziska Förster, research associate at the Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Germany will talk about:

How to not be confused - contrastive phonology
in the Arabic-German context

Contrastive approaches are often said to be helpful especially for LESLLA learners (see KASA-project 2018-2022). Yet they are not standard in the range of teaching methods in adult language and literacy teaching in Germany.  

In this LESLLA Coffee Break we will try to take the perspective of an Arabic native speaker learning German as second language – while trying not to get confused. We will then explore examples of learner language data captured in the ELIKASA project 2020-2024 (development of literacy in contrastive literacy education) and analyze L2 word writings. We sure will find clues for negative transfer, but also for graphemic solutions that demonstrate the learners’ bilingual abilities.
We conclude by asking which (contrastive) exercises could be useful for LESLLA learners to crack the code on both the segmental and the suprasegmental code.

You are welcome to attend. Please register here 

About Franziska Förster
Franziska Förster is a research associate at the Department of German as Foreign and Second Language, Faculty of Arts and Humanities of Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Germany. She joined the university as researcher in the project ELIKASA. Her PhD project investigates everyday literacy practices of L2 learners with L1 Arabic.