Mediation im Lehramtsstudium Deutsch als Fremdsprache. Reflexion durch Fokusinterviews und Tagebücher

In today’s pluricultural and plurilingual society, mediation is considered a useful or necessary competence that can be developed in foreign language teaching at all levels. This article focuses on the implementation o mediation courses in the teacher training programme German as a Foreign Language at the Faculty of Education of Masaryk University in Brno (Czech Republic), which are evaluated and developed on the basis of research. The didactic concept of two mediation courses and the research design are presented below, and the results from the current research phases, based on the method of focus groups and reflection diaries, are summarised and explained.