Der Einsatz von kurzen lustigen Videos im DaF-Unterricht. Möglichkeiten für die Wortschatz- und Grammatikarbeit

Because emotions play a major role in the learning and memorising process, it is of high importance to create positive emotions in order to make language learning more efficient and enjoyable. The aim of this article is to show how a very popular source of entertainment, funny animal videos, can be used to make language learning more attractive to students. The author explores the connections between emotions – such as fun, joy and curiosity – and brain activity during learning. She then describes a range of exercises based on funny animal videos which can be used to introduce and practice vocabulary and grammar at different language levels and to create positive associations with the foreign language, in this case German