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    Bedeutung von digitalen Zusatzmaterialien im lehrwerkgestutzten schulischen DaF-Fernunterricht in pandemiebedingten Umbruchzeiten
    (Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2021-12) Gjestvang, Kari Soedal; Jordaan, Doret; Wurffel, Nicola; Stellenbosch University. Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences. Dept. of Modern Foreign Languages.
    ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Due to the Covid-19 pandemic, Norwegian schools closed down on 12 March 2020 as part of a nationwide lockdown. Overnight, German-language teachers in Norway had to adapt to a fully virtual remote teaching format as a result of this Covid-19 Lockdown. This thesis explores the use of additional digital teaching and learning materials for support amongst German teachers in Norwegian schools during the pandemic. The theoretical foundation of this research analyses different digital teaching formats and concepts—in combination with theories on the development of digital teaching and learning materials for German language instruction. The purpose of the study is twofold. Firstly, to get an impression of the German teachers’ experiences with such materials during the period of remote teaching. Secondly, to investigate how additional teaching and learning materials could be developed to be a greater support for German teachers, both during a new lockdown and in a normal classroom environment. The third part of the study brings together the teachers’ experiences, the theoretical analysis, and analysis on the viability of developing German teaching and learning materials for Norwegian schools. This discussion leads to the central question of this thesis: how can German teachers of the future find better support in additional digital teaching and learning materials for remote teaching as well as classroom teaching? The most significant findings in the study reveal that improvements in the structure of the sources’ websites—in combination with a more active professional training of digital skills amongst teachers—will equip teachers to make better use of the potential support already available in existing materials, even though some digital teaching and learning materials are not yet accessible.