Concrete aspects of improving the language learning process using new teaching methods

Abstract

The topic of this paper concerns the following question: what aspects improve in the activity of the students of the German language, if after the exercises of Partnerarbeit (PA) type (working by two or in binomial), instead of the evaluation in ordinary plenary session, I will call Gruppenarbeit (GA) (working in groups) to evaluate the results? The starting point of this research was the following situation I encountered in the classroom: after the students conducted dialogues, interviews or telephone conversations with a colleague on a particular topic, not all the results could be presented and evaluated in plenary, because this didactic sequence would take too long and the learners' attention would be lost quickly. The impulse for improving this situation came from chapter 2.2: "Using work forms and social form" in the volume Deutsch Lehren Lernen 4 (Aufgaben, Übungen, Interaktion by Hermann Funk, Christina Kuhn et al.): Changing the social form. From chapter 2.2 it is clear why it makes sense to change the social form to evaluate the results after working in binomial or by two.