Symposium: Design Based Research in English Language Education

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Design-Based Research (DBR) has already become a fixed branch of research in many areas in recent years. In the context of foreign language education, there are already individual projects based on DBR principles, but there is a lack of a systematic methodological discourse. The symposium organized by the Chair of English Language Education aims to provide an impetus for a DBR network in foreign language research. Through the involvement of a pioneer and proven expert in the field of design-based research (Prof. Dr. Susan McKenney), as well as the various perspectives of stakeholders from practice (Michael Rogge, Janine Bruns) and research (Larena Schäfer, Svenja Haberland, Dr. Philipp Siepmann and Jens-Folkert Folkerts), discussions are initiated that systematically reflect the opportunities and challenges of design-based research in foreign language education. In this way, institutional framework conditions for DBR projects will be determined as well as the foundations for embedding DBR in different phases of teacher education. The main goal of this symposium is to establish a work group that further assesses research standards and a thorough knowledge basis that needed to conduct DBR in foreign language education. Therefore, the workgroup is supposed to coordinate and delineate forms of providing access to the gained results. On the one hand, findings should be presented at (international) conferences and on the other hand a publication which outlines DBR methodology in foreign language education should be prepared.