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Learning and teaching languages in an online environment is one of
contemporary education's great challenges. The challenge is made
particularly difficult because language learners benefit from a
social constructivist approach in which individual learners learn
by doing together - negotiating meaning in collaborative
interaction. The open source revolution in technology has opened up
the possibility of communal efforts to develop technological
solutions to such pedagogical challenges. This volume brings
together reports from the Covcell Project which developed
collaborative tools for the learning management system, Moodle,
with papers relating to a range of other tools for online language
teaching, in a number of domains including language for special
purposes, foreign language equivalency certification, cultural
learning practices and oral skills development.
The influence of foreign cultures on German literature and other
cultural productions since the 18th century. The Edinburgh German
Yearbook is devoted to German Studies in an international context.
It publishes original English- and German-language contributions on
a wide range of topics from scholars around the world. Each
volumeis based on a single broad theme: the first includes papers
from the highly successful conference Kennst du das Land: Cultural
Exchange in German Literature, held in Edinburgh in December 2006,
supplemented by additional essays. The conviction that German
culture and the German spirit are triumphantly unique has played a
notorious role in Germany's history. It is nonetheless acknowledged
that German literature has been significantly influenced by
non-German sources, and the search for what is unique about Germany
and German literature must incorporate an awareness of these. This
volume provides a wide-ranging investigation into how German
literature from the 18th century tothe present day reflects
interactions between German and non-German cultures. Alongside
theoretical and historical reflections on the nature of cultural
exchange, contributions explore literary reception, the boundaries
of and movement between cultures, and Germany's literary,
political, cultural, and religious relations with both near
neighbors and far-flung cultural interlocutors. Contributoers:
Christian Moser, Birgit Tautz, Silvia Horsch, Eleoma Joshua, Gauti
Kristmannsson, Sabine Wilke, Daniela Kramer, Jon Hughes, Thomas
Martinec, Margaret Litter, Lyn Marven, Dirk Goettsche, Susanne Kord
Eleoma Joshua is Lecturer in German at Edinburgh University.
RobertVilain is Professor of German and Comparative Literature at
Royal Holloway, University of London. The journal's General Editor
is Sarah Colvin, Professor of German at Edinburgh University.
These two volumes examine the way in which translation was
instrumental in constructing a literary identity in Britain and
Germany in the eighteenth century. The first volume covers in three
parts how different methods of translation can be applied to enrich
the existent literature in the native language and to an extent
create it as an aesthetic possibility, in particular through the
translation of form. The first part is theoretical without being a
theory, the second part covers the national literary rivalry in
Britain in the latter part of the eighteenth century and the third
part a German synthesis of material and methods applied earlier on
in Britain. The second volume is dedicated to aesthetic,
philosophical and national concerns of several major thinkers of
the eighteenth century such as Adam Smith, Adam Ferguson,
Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Johann Gottfried Herder.
These two volumes examine the way in which translation was
instrumental in constructing a literary identity in Britain and
Germany in the eighteenth century. The first volume covers in three
parts how different methods of translation can be applied to enrich
the existent literature in the native language and to an extent
create it as an aesthetic possibility, in particular through the
translation of form. The first part is theoretical without being a
theory, the second part covers the national literary rivalry in
Britain in the latter part of the eighteenth century and the third
part a German synthesis of material and methods applied earlier on
in Britain. The second volume is dedicated to aesthetic,
philosophical and national concerns of several major thinkers of
the eighteenth century such as Adam Smith, Adam Ferguson,
Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Johann Gottfried Herder.
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