New Media - New Genres?! Communicative Practices in the modern EFL classroom - Einzelansicht

Which differences are there between mails among friends and mailing list communication? Is blogging the same as writing into a personal diary? Why do people prefer voice messaging over text messaging these days? How does mobile phone communication change our way to engage in face-to-face-interaction? These (and other) questions mark the beginning of a series of questions we are going to discuss in this TEFL seminar.
The seminar will deal with the question: ”Which new genres – based on computer-mediated communication – are there nowadays and how might they change the way we teach foreign languages?”
Students are invited to analyse different (computer-mediated) communicative situations and present their findings in short (in-class) presentations. Based on these presentations all participants of the seminar are going to develop ideas for the application of these (new?) communicative practices in the EFL classroom. (2 LP)