German as a foreing language and digital media: An interview with Dietmar Rösler

Abstract

Dietmar Rösler, professor and author of the books "E-Learning Fremdsprachen - eine kritische Einführung" and "Deutsch als Fremdsprache: Eine Einführung", talks in an interview about his ideas on the use of digital media in teaching German as a foreign language and his experiences as a university professor with the digitization of teaching before and during the Corona pandemic in Germany. He outlines possible consequences of the crisis for different foreign language teaching and learning scenarios as well as for changes in the training and further education of teachers of German as a foreign language. Dietmar Rösler also describes in this interview his vision of the future of textbooks in an increasingly digitalized world.