Digital Service-Learning Opportunities for Learners of German Language Education

Since the winter semester 2021/22, the project course Language Education at German Schools Abroad – Development of Service-Learning has been preparing both B.Ed. students of German and master’s students of German as a Foreign Language to develop and provide digital service-learning sessions for learners at the German schools abroad (GSAs) in the field of language education. This article introduces the goals of this project course, which is also a transfer project, and shows how the collaboration process with four partnering GSAs was structured. Based on evaluation results, the article describes the skills’ development of the student teachers, points to the current needs of the GSAs in the field of language education and, finally, introduces a specific service-learning project as it was implemented at the department led by Winnie-Karen Giera at the University of Potsdam as part of the DAAD project UP Network for Sustainable Teacher Education.