Our first guest speaker this coming Thursday 13 November 16:00 CET is our Romance linguist colleague Amalia Canes-Nápoles! She will be giving insights into her attempt at making dynamic workflows reproducible.

As usual, you can join us in Cologne […]

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We have changed our meeting day to Thursdays, but are sticking to our four-o'clock-tea-time. Get those dates in your calendars and join us in person at @unibibkoeln for a real cuppa or online via Zoom for a virtual one (join the mailing list to get the links: […]

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@da5nsy We're not based in the UK, but we run ReproducibiliTea in the HumaniTeas (https://ub.uni-koeln.de/en/courses-consultations/reproducibilitea-in-the-humaniteas) at the University of Cologne in Germany. I'm curious to hear about other initiatives in this area!

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We closed the symposium with a panel discussion on "The future of foreign language textbooks: bringing together academics and practitioners". We are very grateful to our wonderful discussants, Valeria Crausaz-Prinz (textbook consultant and Spanish and German […]

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I don't know why we thought it was a good idea ourselves, as the organisers of the symposium, the last slot of the day: We were honestly relatively brain-fried by that time, but we managed to get through our talk on "Conversational phrasemes in German EFL […]

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Javier Caro Reina (University of Cologne and my office-neighbour!) delighted everyone with a wonderfully humorous delivery of his talk: “Una cerveza por favor.” Bestellen nur deutsche Touristen so? Bestellungen aus variationspragmatischer Sicht im Spanischunterricht". He concluded with some tips […]

Laure Gautherot (Université Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris) mastered the difficult after-lunch spot with a much-awaited talk on gender-inclusive language in German as a Foreign/Second Language textbooks and French curricula: "Die geschlechtergerechte Sprache in […]

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We now turn to a very thorough analysis of "Textbook language in bilingual education: linguistic demand and potential subject sequencing as a facilitator for CLIL" by Sarah Sarah Wunderlich from the University of Koblenz.

Our poster-with-coffee-and-snacks session was a great success: lots of passionate discussions between presenters, academic participants, M.Ed. students, and representatives of two major German textbook publishers, Klett and Cornelsen. Perhaps you can spot our […]

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Next up is Philipp Meer from the neighboring University City of Münster, speaking on behalf of Robert Fuchs, Karoline Wirbatz, and Lena Hertze, about fascinating ongoing work on "The representation of Global Englishes in textbooks in Germany: Focus on accents […]

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Iglika Nikolova-Stoupak delivered the opening talk "Multilingual Corpus-Based Analysis of Literary Texts Adapted for Foreign Language Learners" with panache! Her work, co-authored with Eva Schaeffer-Lacroix, Gaël Lejeune (all from the STIH Laboratory […]

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What a joy to open our "Textbook Language" symposium to a full room with participants from as far as Japan, Norway, Italy, and Romania and as close as Osnabrück and Münster! 😊 https://elenlefoll.quarto.pub/textbooklanguage2025/

Last minute preparations for today’s symposium at Osnabrück University. I have been entrusted with a key to the University Palace which makes me a little nervous…