Zur Effizienz des Medieneinsatzes im DaF-Unterricht

Abstract

On The Efficiency of Media Use in Deutsch Lessons

This article focuses on the use of media and their influence on the process of learning foreign languages, in this case German. The focus is on the categories of media and its use as a support when teaching and learning the German language. Media occupy a central place in educational settings, it is important to integrate them in the teaching context, because they create real opportunities for communication and they bring foreign-language reality into the classroom. Teaching with media makes teaching out of real objects that are both learning objects and tools, as learning objects, they enable experience that serves to achieve learning goals. Henceforth, this paper emphasizes the effectiveness of the use of media in Deutsch lessons. The different functions of teaching through media were discussed in details, namely cognitive, pragmatic, and affective.