As part of the Move on additional programme "German as a Foreign Language" (DaF) at the University of Bamberg, 2018
The Move on programme aims to qualify teaching graduates for work outside of school and thus open up additional career prospects for them on the national and international labour and education market. To this end, Move on offers four different additional qualifications, including German as a foreign language (DaF). This is in light of the fact that interest in learning German is growing again worldwide and there is therefore an increasing demand for GFL teachers abroad.
This also applies to China in particular, as can be seen from the study "German as a foreign language worldwide" conducted by the Federal Foreign Office in 2015. According to the study, the number of German learners in China doubled to 117,000 between 2010 and 2015. Rising numbers can be seen in schools, universities and in adult education. The Federal Foreign Office's PASCH ("Schools: Partners for the Future") "German Learning Campaign", which was launched in 2008, is helping to ensure that more and more children learn German at primary and secondary school. China is the country with the most PASCH schools worldwide. The Goethe-Institut currently supports 82 schools throughout China, including primary, middle and high schools as well as vocational secondary schools. In addition, there has been a trend in China in recent years to establish new German departments at universities and colleges of technology and engineering.
In view of the increasing demand for GFL teachers in China as outlined above and the resulting career prospects of the Move on target group, we are offering a workshop that is suitable for familiarising German students with the particularities of Chinese (learning) culture. By involving Chinese students who are enrolled at the University of Bamberg, the German students also have the opportunity to get to know Chinese learners of German - their future target group - and to exchange ideas with them. The workshop will focus on discussing differences and similarities in cultural standards, teaching and learning habits, communication patterns and social interaction in Germany and China. In mixed German-Chinese groups, students can reflect on their own patterns of thinking, behaviour and communication in exchange with students from their own and other cultures and learn from each other.