Descriere - Happy Learning. Glucklich und erfolgreich Sprachen lernen

Language is the key to educational and life success and opens opportunities. With Happy Learning, language learning succeeds and empowers learners (DaF and foreign languages): exercises to increase resilience, optimism and stress management help achieve the learning goals and make learners happy and successful. The guide is exciting, informative, and easy-to-read: • introduces a new approach that responds to the special challenges and stressors of our time. • Explains backgrounds and connections with insights into research. • Shows how exercises to increase well-being and mental strength can be linked to language learning goals. • Introduces directly actionable, proven exercises for classroom and home use. • Provides supplementary tips that already school children and teenagers can implement without support and that can also be used by adults. The author team: Prof. Dr. Michaela Sambanis is a chair owner for the teaching of English at the Free University of Berlin. She trains teachers and researches how we can learn languages successfully and happily. It combines neuroscience, psychology and didactics as well as science and practice. Dr. Christian Ludwig is currently a guest professor for the didactics of English at the Free University of Berlin and trains future teachers there. A main focus of his work, in addition to literature and cultural didactics, is the promotion of the mental health of teachers and learners in language teaching.