Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2011 im Fachbereich Theologie - Didaktik, Religionspadagogik, Note: 1,3, Universitat zu Koln, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Diese Arbeit analysiert zunachst die Verbindung von Musik und Religion im christlichen Glauben, sowohl historisch als auch theologisch. Dabei wird besonderer Schwerpunkt auf die fur die Religionspadagogik resultierenden Schlusse gelegt. Anschliessend wird die Bedeutung der Popmusik fur Jugendliche heutzutage dargelegt und es werden Parallelen zur christlichen Religion aufgezeigt, um die sich daraus ergebende Relevanz fur den Einsatz von Popmusik im Religionsunterricht zu begrunden. Abschliessend werden einige didaktische und methodische Impulse fur die Umsetzung gegebe

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2013 im Fachbereich Englisch - Padagogik, Didaktik, Sprachwissenschaft, Note: 3,0, Universitat zu Koln, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: This paper wants to research into the question of the existence of a Critical Period Hypothesis (CPH) in Second Language Acquisition (SLA). Further, since this theory was already introduced in the early 60's, I will have a closer look at the modifications of the CPH, i.e. the Sensitive Period Hypothesis (SPH). By the help of taking some of the findings from different studies into account, I will try to answer the underlying question.

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2012 im Fachbereich Englisch - Padagogik, Didaktik, Sprachwissenschaft, Note: 1,3, Universitat zu Koln, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Code- switching (CS) is a worldwide phenomenon and has been the norm in many different communities, but it was unnoticed and neglected by researchers for years. However, due to social changes, such as globalization and immigration, CS has surfaced in new places and thereby attracted attention. Nevertheless, those linguistics who researched into the occurrences of CS mostly commented on it negatively and categorized it as a form of interference and broken language. The perception of CS changed when Blom and Gumperz in 1972 focused on CS between dialects in a Norwegian fishing village and pointed at its social dimension and function. As a result, further studies of CS in various parts of the world were introduced and up until today it is a major research topic. Especially, the motivations for CS remain an interesting focus for those studies. Moreover, globalization and with this, the formation of multi-ethnical societies with a variety of different languages in a country is an on-going process and hence a late- breaking topic. Different sociolinguistic theories to explain this phenomenon have been developed. Two well-known approaches are Giles's Speech Accommodation Theory, nowadays revised as Communication Accommodation Theory (CAT) and Myers- Scotton's Markedness Model (MM). The first has its basis in psychology as it explains CS as a form of accommodation to converge to the addressee in order to become more alike and therefore narrow social distance. In contrast, the socio-psychological MM also takes macro-level perspectives into consideration and provides a generalization about how motivations for CS are interpreted. In this paper I will focus on CS in multilingual societies and examine, whether this process is only a matter of convergence as CAT claims. Further, I will match this theory with the MM as it is