GLC Activities
The Sheraton Hotel in Cairo hosted a significant conference between 6-7 December 2023, attracting more than 120 participants from the MENA region and Germany. The “AlMena 5 Conference”, which was organized by the DAAD Egypt, gathered professionals and researchers from Algeria, Jordan, Egypt, and Germany to share insights across various fields
On Thursday, November 30, 2023, the entire staff of the GLC gathered for a training session on the topic of "Action-oriented oral examinations”. The two speakers, Silvie Zeller and Andreas Chehadi, coordinators of the German I and German III courses at the German Language Center at GJU, began the training with a theoretical introduction to the
On September 26, 2023, the Vice President for International Affairs, Prof. Dr. Reiner Finkeldey, and the Director of the German Language Center, Jacqueline Rogler, welcomed eleven new full-time lecturers who will strengthen the now 71-member teaching team for German as a foreign language at GJU. In addition to internationally recruited German
As part of my teaching at GJU, I had the opportunity to do a month-long internship at IIK-Düsseldorf (Institut für Interkulturelle Kommunikation) in September 2023. Within this month I taught the level A1.2 in German as a foreign language. My target group was international Master and PhD students participating in DAAD programs within their
The German Language Center conducted a workshop for German Language lecturers that demonstrated the crucial importance of effective classroom management. Jennifer Swanda, the international trainer from Germany, highlighted the key to successful teaching and creating a productive learning environment.
Effective classroom management
On June 10, 2023, the German Language Center ended the academic year 2022/2023 with a party held on the terrace of the SABE campus in Jabal Amman. The wonderful ambience, a rich buffet and a DJ from the ranks of SABE students provided the appropriate setting, which also served to say goodbye to colleagues who will return to Germany or embark on
On 25th and 26th April the Job Application Training Team (BT) and the Support Office for Internships (SOI) welcomed the director of the Career Service of the University of Münster, Dr. Andreas Eimer to delve into the latest recruitment trends in Germany. Dr. Eimer provided valuable insights into the German labor market and
On March 20, 2023, Cornelsen Verlag conducted a workshop that highlighted the special importance of acting with language in foreign language teaching . Trainer Nadine Küpfer impressively demonstrated how the individual competencies can be interlinked in a topic-related manner in order to mobilize the language learners and allow them to
On March 19, a group of 10 students from the English/German double major at the University of Jordan got a glimpse of teaching German-as-a-foreign-language at GJU's German Language Center by sitting in on German classes. Afterwards, there was an exchange between the students and German lecturers Dana Abuthawabeh and Hala Alnaslieh, graduates of
As part of the School of Applied Humanities and Languages (SAHL) International DaF Conference, March 6-8, 2023, Samir Haskic, German teacher and deputy director of GJU's German Language Center, conducted a multi-day online training for students in the university's Master's DaF program. The main topic of the event was successful lesson planning