Erneuerung der bewährten Tradition : deutsche unkonventionele Audioguides und Möglichkeiten ihrer didaktischen Verwendung
Innovation within tradition : unconventional German audio guides and their didactic potential

german

2025

volume 20, issue 1

audio guides   Audioguides   DaF-Didaktik   German as a foreign language didactics   knowledge-based structures   Konventionen   speech actions   Sprechhandlungen   text type conventions   Wissensstrukturen

Univerza v Ljubljani, Filozofska fakulteta
(Obvezni izvod spletne publikacije)

This paper first examines how two unconventional audio guides – one thematic and one literary – relate to and diverge from the conventional text type pattern. A combined knowledge- and function-related analysis tool developed in an earlier study (Nardi & Engberg 2023) is applied. The analysis shows that the thematic audio guide, while unconventional, retains both knowledge- and function-related key fea-tures of the traditional text type model, although with a different distribution and different content. In the case of the literary audio guide, there is a fundamental difference from the conventional text type pattern in terms of function, while a certain adoption of knowledge-related elements can be observed. These insights form the basis for the development of German as a Foreign Language activities in the second part of the paper, highlighting both the core characteristics of audio guides (linking text and painting) and the distinctive features of unconventional audio guides.

18.03.2026