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Workshops

Reports

Where: Online
When: December 19, 6:00–8:00 PM

Report by Kumiko Uehara Zoellner on her presentation at the AJE/BATJ Symposium
Report by Nadja Maffei and Verena Bachmann on their teacher training at IPRASE

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Role Play in the Classroom – Creative Scenes, Lively Encounters

For language trainers and teachers of all languages and levels

Where: Berger Straße 200, Frankfurt a. M, 60385

When: 7. February 2026 – 9:30 bis 19:00

This practice-oriented workshop demonstrates how role play in foreign language teaching can become an authentic, dynamic, and highly motivating learning environment. Participants will experience how roles, situations, and encounters—beyond traditional, often mechanical role plays—can organically emerge from the group using selected elements of Psychodramaturgie Linguistique (PDL).

Alongside working with typical PDL role plays, we explore how conventional classroom role plays can be dramaturgically opened, adapted, and brought to life through group-generated impulses. Another focus is the exploration of social roles and potential role conflicts, which serve as powerful triggers for authentic communication.

Trainers develop their own scenarios step by step—from initial impulses and perspective shifts to more complex encounter formats. All content arises from the group’s desire to express itself, which promotes identification, motivation, and genuine linguistic spontaneity.

Core Topics:

• Role play beyond traditional methods

• Role diversity, perspective shifts, and social roles

• Adapting conventional role plays for the PDL context

• Using selected PDL techniques to support scenic processes

• Group-dynamic impulses for authentic communication

• Scene development from self-created characters and situations

Why this workshop?
Because well-designed role play doesn’t feel artificial—it enables real encounters and real language. Learners speak because they want to express something, not because a task requires it.

Also valuable for teachers of other subjects:
Role play fosters perspective-taking, social interaction, and situational action—core competencies in nearly every teaching context.

Participants: 6–12
Times: 9:30–12:30 · 14:00–16:30 · 17:00–19:00
Fee: €120–145
Early bird rate until January 6, 2026: €120
Register here

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Using pictures in the classroom

For language trainers and teachers of all languages and levels

When: March 7, 2026 – 9:30 AM to 7:00 PM
Where: Berger Straße 200, Frankfurt a. M, 60385

In this workshop, participants discover how images can become powerful dramaturgical impulses in foreign language teaching. Images open spaces that stimulate perception, inner movement, and spontaneous interaction. A single image can spark a wide range of associations, role offers, and scenic encounters from which authentic language naturally emerges.

Images are used as dynamic catalysts for expression, presence, and perspective shifts. Participants explore how images can serve as triggers for short vignettes, improvised sequences, or dialogic miniatures. The content always arises from the group—aligning with the PDL principle of “following rather than leading.”

The workshop provides concrete techniques from Psychodramaturgie Linguistique that can be immediately integrated into regular language teaching. Content, roles, and language emerge organically from the group process and unfold playfully in scenes and encounters.

Core Topics:

• Relational encounters sparked by visual stimuli

• Scenic vignettes and improvised sequences from image details

• Verbal or written condensations

• Confident handling of open dramaturgical processes

• Use in both face-to-face and online teaching

• Criteria for dramaturgically effective and ineffective image selection

Why this workshop?
Because images aren’t just for viewing—they can be experienced and brought into motion. They offer intuitive, imaginative access to scenes, encounters, and language. This fosters strong inner engagement, spontaneous interaction, and makes teaching immediately more vivid.

Suitable for teachers of all subjects:
Working with images supports perspective shifts, social interaction, and action-oriented learning—key skills far beyond language instruction. The methods are easily adaptable and promote cooperative, creative learning processes.

Participants: 6–12
Times: 9:00–12:30 · 14:00–16:30 · 17:00–19:00
Fee: €120–145
Early bird rate until February 6, 2026: €120
Register here