Papers by Dana Bizuleanu (Conkan)
The proposed research paper sets out to investigate the imaginary of writers who transit spaces, ... more The proposed research paper sets out to investigate the imaginary of writers who transit spaces, as it is the case of Herta Müller. This study aims to apply the concept of transfer-images and identify narrative structures and ideas that constitute the malignity of the communist landscape and depict the trauma of mental and physical relocation. By defining the concept of transfer-images the paper showcases concepts and methods used in psychocritical and narratological approaches by focusing on three major works by Herta Müller: The Appointment, The Hunger Angel and The Land of the Green Plums.
German Life and Letters, 2020
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/glal.12258
Asian Journal of Education, 2019
Studia Universitatis Babeș-Bolyai Philologia, 2019
From CLILiG to Digital Tools: Developing Reading Strategies and Collaborative Skills for Universi... more From CLILiG to Digital Tools: Developing Reading Strategies and Collaborative Skills for University Students. The article sets out to investigate how language awareness strategies found in the didactics of CLILiG (Content and Language Integrated Learning in German) can support, develop and train reading strategies and collaborative skills for university students. As a didactic concept, CLILiG is, on the one hand, the direct result of language policies. On the other hand, it is a natural response to the multilingual learner of today. The first part of the article focuses on CLILiG, its variants, main features (micro-and macro-scaffolding) and how digital tools for learning can be integrated in class, in order to make use of both language and specific content. The second part discusses two didactic examples designed for students studying in German Institutional Communication in the The article offers a look into digital tools like Coggle and Padlet and how they can be used in class to train reading strategies and collaborative skills with university students. Students' interaction with challenging texts in a foreign language and digital tools supporting a learning outcome can improve reading skills and allow students to find creative ways of understanding specialized content, especially because of the features digital apps like Coggle and Padlet have to offer.
The European Proceedings of Social and Behavioural Sciences, 2019
German Life and Letters, 2020
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/glal.12258
The European Proceedings of Social & Behavioural Sciences EpSBS: ERD 2018 6 th International Conference – “Education, Reflection, Development, Sixth Edition” , 2019
The article sets out to investigate to what extent do teachers apply, and initiate practices disc... more The article sets out to investigate to what extent do teachers apply, and initiate practices discovered at teacher seminars and how these can be linked to the field of neuroscience and didactics. Moreover, I will make use of the term "Neurodidaktik" (En. neurodidactics), as it refers to how learning processes and learning difficulties (in this case learning German as a foreign language) can be interpreted and understood through current findings in neuroscience. Starting from a practical framework (the classroom), the article attempts to fill in a gap on a topic seldom talked about: didactic materials presented at workshops for teachers and their usefulness. Moreover, what motivates their usage? The first part of the paper examines the need for neurodidactics and its definitions. The second part explores some principles of neurodidactics that can be applied in classroom and examples of relevant classroom activities. The third part brings the findings of a questionnaire applied to teachers of German foreign language who participated in teacher seminars organized by the Goethe-Institute Bucharest and its partner institutions. Focusing on the use of certain materials (presented in seminars and their usefulness in percentages), the questionnaire examines which principles of neurodidactics are applied in class and some corresponding activities offered as examples in teacher seminars and trainings. The working hypothesis starts from the idea that teachers are motivated to use brain-stimulating exercises in order to create and impact the classroom atmosphere and less for their learning content.
Studia Universitatis Philologia, 2019
From CLILiG to Digital Tools: Developing Reading Strategies and Collaborative Skills for Universi... more From CLILiG to Digital Tools: Developing Reading Strategies and Collaborative Skills for University Students. The article sets out to investigate how language awareness strategies found in the didactics of CLILiG (Content and Language Integrated Learning in German) can support, develop and train reading strategies and collaborative skills for university students. As a didactic concept, CLILiG is, on the one hand, the direct result of language policies. On the other hand, it is a natural response to the multilingual learner of today. The first part of the article focuses on CLILiG, its variants, main features (micro-and macro-scaffolding) and how digital tools for learning can be integrated in class, in order to make use of both language and specific content. The second part discusses two didactic examples designed for students studying in German Institutional Communication in the The article offers a look into digital tools like Coggle and Padlet and how they can be used in class to train reading strategies and collaborative skills with university students. Students' interaction with challenging texts in a foreign language and digital tools supporting a learning outcome can improve reading skills and allow students to find creative ways of understanding specialized content, especially because of the features digital apps like Coggle and Padlet have to offer.
The following article describes a didactical experiment held in the winter semester of 2015 with ... more The following article describes a didactical experiment held in the winter semester of 2015 with a group of law and psychology students at the Babeş-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania, learning German as specialized language. The main question that needed to be answered was: Can learners be more accurate in the process of self-assessment, if the learning goals of each exercise and task are known to them? At the core of the new teacher training programme (Deutsch Lehren Lernen) developed by the Goethe-Institut in Munich, Germany, lays the documentation of such experiments, in order to bridge the gap between theory and practice. The article discusses principles of the new programme, the new learning materials, didactical experiments and research questions and new methodical principles. The last part of my paper presents the findings of the didactical experiment that investigates the link between transparent learning goals and the self-assessment process.
This article sets out to explore
tensions and symptoms arising in humanist
thought, how they inf... more This article sets out to explore
tensions and symptoms arising in humanist
thought, how they influenced fiction and
what is understood as fiction in a decisive
manner. In the posthuman paradigm
story-telling reveals the inner fractures of
humanism and its representations. In recent
years, celebrated and awarded writers have
introduced hybrid forms of the novel, like in
the case of Herta Müller and Svetlana Alexievich.
Their books make room for the plural
and nomadic subject to explore and recreate
an already incoherent life, reality and even
death. The narrative voices transgress time
and space, in order to showcase how the
current (post)human subject, released from
any type of framing, looks for proper means
of expression.
Books by Dana Bizuleanu (Conkan)
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Papers by Dana Bizuleanu (Conkan)
tensions and symptoms arising in humanist
thought, how they influenced fiction and
what is understood as fiction in a decisive
manner. In the posthuman paradigm
story-telling reveals the inner fractures of
humanism and its representations. In recent
years, celebrated and awarded writers have
introduced hybrid forms of the novel, like in
the case of Herta Müller and Svetlana Alexievich.
Their books make room for the plural
and nomadic subject to explore and recreate
an already incoherent life, reality and even
death. The narrative voices transgress time
and space, in order to showcase how the
current (post)human subject, released from
any type of framing, looks for proper means
of expression.
Books by Dana Bizuleanu (Conkan)
tensions and symptoms arising in humanist
thought, how they influenced fiction and
what is understood as fiction in a decisive
manner. In the posthuman paradigm
story-telling reveals the inner fractures of
humanism and its representations. In recent
years, celebrated and awarded writers have
introduced hybrid forms of the novel, like in
the case of Herta Müller and Svetlana Alexievich.
Their books make room for the plural
and nomadic subject to explore and recreate
an already incoherent life, reality and even
death. The narrative voices transgress time
and space, in order to showcase how the
current (post)human subject, released from
any type of framing, looks for proper means
of expression.