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PDL APPRENTICESHIP

You are a language coach... 

And want to learn new techniques neue to make your classes even more effective.

You are looking for new ways to get out of your class routine.
 
You wish for new, innovative methods and exercises, so your participants learn to master the language better and can use it actively.
 
You want to break down the inhibitions to speak the language... This and more offers the PDL apprenticeship.

On six weekends (January 2013 - June 2013) we will familiarize you with theory and practise of the PDL (Psychodramaturgy for language acquisition), an approach to studying languages, based on the participants and the group.

What does the apprenticeship include?

• Warm up exercises and exercises for in between to develop the essential abilities and skills for learning a language and cultivating the relationships within the group.
  
• Main exercises and techniques of the PDL, which accompany the participants progressively in discovering and developping their personal expression in the new language.
  
• Use and function of recreation exercises.
  
• Techniques to observe and master the different pronounciation accurately.
  
• Breathing techniques and voice exercises for a better perception and a conscious use of language.
• Restart-techniques as an effective tool to enlarge, strenghten and ameliorate language skills.
  
• Methods to project, associate and identify for educational use.
  
• Group dramaturgy and role plays.
  
• Work with fairy tales, myths, literary texts and poems: selection criterion, possibilities of use and effect.
  
• Special written exercises in PDL.
  
• Psychodramaturgical knowledge transfer of grammar.
  
• Group dynamical aspects and self-perception.
  
• Creation and preparation of own class material.