impact of socio-cultural learning tasks on students’ foreign grammatical language awareness

Heike Niesen has been teaching English and German linguistics and literature since 2006. She received her PhD at the University of Luxembourg in 2014. As a teacher-researcher she is particularly interested in practical and theoretical issues of EFL teaching and learning, lexical semantics, pragmatics and neurolingustics.

• Contents: Combination of task-supported language teaching/learning and socio-cultural learning theory – Development of socio-cultural learning tasks (SCLTs) – Implementation of SCLTs in EFL classroom (treatment group) – Implementation of PPP (control group) – Evaluation of SCLTs in a quasi-experimental study (target: students’ grammatical language awareness).