Writing Creatively in a Foreign Language: Vignettes, Haikus, and Poetry

Publikation: Beiträge in ZeitschriftenZeitschriftenaufsätzeForschungbegutachtet

Authors

What is it like to teach writing creatively in a foreign language? How do I get even those students to embark on this adventure who have never even written creatively in their own language? The following article is based on my experiences teaching creative writing since 2008 at Leuphana University Lüneburg. While I mention a few pitfalls that need to be avoided, the article consists mostly of texts that always go over extremely well with students. Thus, it is a step-by-step approach for those who would like to embark on the adventure of teaching creative writing themselves. One short aside: I am a literary scholar by training, teaching mostly literature and culture of Canada and the United States, and have no formal training in the area of ESL. Therefore, readers will not get theoretical background information on how to teach creative writing from an ESL point-of-view, but rather hands-on, practical exercises that I have tried out numerous times and found to be successful. I am 100% self-taught in the area of creative writing.

Wie ist es, kreatives Schreiben in einer Fremdsprache zu unterrichten? Wie bekomme ich sogar diejenigen Studierenden dazu, sich auf dieses Abenteuer einzulassen, die selbst in ihrer Muttersprache nie Lyrik oder Geschichten geschrieben haben? Der folgende Artikel basiert auf meinen eigenen Erfahrungen als Dozentin für kreatives Schreiben an der Leuphana Universität Lüneburg. Der Artikel verweist auf einige Schwierigkeiten, die es zu vermeiden gilt und empfiehlt Texte, die bei Studierenden besonders gut ankommen. Daher ist der nachfolgende Artikel auch eine Art Einführung für diejenigen, die sich auf die Herausforderung, kreatives Schreiben in einer Fremdsprache zu unterrichten, einlassen möchten. Noch eine kurze Bemerkung: Ich bin von Hause aus Literaturwissenschaftlerin und unterrichte Nordamerikastudien (Kultur und Literatur Kanadas und der USA). Daher erwartet die Leserinnen und Leser im Folgenden keine theoretische Abhandlung, sondern tatsächlich erprobte Aufgaben im Bereich „kreatives Schreiben“. Ich in 100% Autodidaktin in diesem Bereich.
OriginalspracheEnglisch
ZeitschriftZeitschrift für Interkulturellen Fremdsprachenunterricht
Jahrgang25
Ausgabenummer2
Seiten (von - bis)29-53
Anzahl der Seiten25
ISSN1205-6545
PublikationsstatusErschienen - 10.2020

Zuletzt angesehen

Aktivitäten

  1. Digital Capitalism without Firms? Consequences for the Organization and Regulation of Work from an Employment Systems Perspective
  2. Learning for sustainability in the higher education sector: Challenges and ways forward
  3. Leuphana Universität Lüneburg (Organisation)
  4. Panel Discussion #PrivacyCamp22: A feminist Internet
  5. Sherman Alexie’s Flight: Fighting the Frontier in the 21st Century
  6. ATES in Germany: I. Heat storage in a sugar factory in Anklam
  7. “Divert When It Does Not Hurt: The Initiation of Economic Sanctions by US Presidents from 1989 to 2015”
  8. HyperKult XXII - Standards, Normen, Protokolle - 2010
  9. Improving skills. Evidence from secondary analysis of international surveys 2012
  10. Environmental Accounting and Sustainable Development Indicators Conference - EMAN 2009
  11. Eine Intellektuellengeschichte linker Militanz
  12. Konferenz “European Governance – More Than a Catchword ?" 2003
  13. 3rd International Conference on Privacy, Security, Risk and Trust and 3rd International Conference on Social Computing 2011
  14. www.bwp-schriften.de (Zeitschrift)
  15. Kom­men­tar zu Eliz­a­beth Loshs Vor­trag zu »Sur­vi­val of Tools/​Su­vir­val­tools«, Trans­me­dia­le: »Pa­nic Room Ses­si­ons: Post-Di­gi­tal An­xie­ty«
  16. Shifts in Institutional Infrastructure Configurations: The Case of Integrated Care in Germany
  17. Blue Feelings: Emotion and Affect of Digital Police Work on Social Media
  18. Vortrag: Wertorientiertes Umweltmanagement und Shareholder Value
  19. Fakultät Nachhaltigkeit (Organisation)

Publikationen

  1. Reduction of Anisotropic Mechanical Properties During Extrusion by Means of Additively Manufactured Dies
  2. Moving beyond the heuristic of creative destruction
  3. Napoleon
  4. Tiefen der Täuschung
  5. Drivers and Barriers of Implementing Sustainability Curricula in Higher Education - Assumptions and Evidence
  6. Leveling up? An inter-neighborhood experiment on parochialism and the efficiency of multi-level public goods provision
  7. Delivering community benefits through REDD plus : Lessons from Joint Forest Management in Zambia
  8. Scale in environmental governance: moving from concepts and cases to consolidation
  9. Holland’s secondary constructs of vocational interests and career choice readiness of secondary students
  10. Comparative human resource management
  11. Logic as a Medium
  12. Development of an ex-vitro system allowing plant-bacteria interactions through VOCs in the context of water stress
  13. Exports, Foreign Direct Investments and Productivity
  14. Justice in environmental institutions - How do frameworks for institutional analysis consider ideas of justice?
  15. Habilitation von Dr. Mark Euler, Leuphana Universität
  16. The Foreign Corrupt Practices Act: A Lookback at 2012
  17. Being A.N.Other
  18. Editorial: Challenges and Opportunities for Multinational Corporations in Sustainable Development
  19. Emerging Technologies for Improving Access to Radiation Therapy
  20. Bereichsrezensionen
  21. Old-Age Security and Silver Workers
  22. Impacts of software and its engineering on the carbon footprint of ICT
  23. Comment on “fluorotechnology is critical to modern life
  24. The u-shape on aging revisited
  25. Datenkritik