Geb. 1964, Senior Lecturer seit 1993, Großbritannien/Nordirland
Sprachwissenschaft - Didaktik - DaF - German Studies (Fachgebiet)
- German Language and culture; English Language and Culture; Literary and political Cabaret/ Kabarett as a project within language teaching classes (I first explored my unique combination in a substantial chapter in my extended essay for my PGCE at Exeter 1988-89, and then introduced my first designs with sixth formers, 1989-90 (Lehrgebiet)
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Die automatische? Anschrift ist seit Dez. 1998 falsch. I was suspended from my workplace on 19 Oct 1998 without due process and without doing anything wrong
Motivation and humour in language learning ( self-initiated project, 1987-88, to investigate teaching methods for languages in German schools and in teacher training courses at German universities ( Konstanz and West Berlin)
“Ms. McNally has developed an innovative approach to integrate humorous genres and texts to the advanced language classroom. This approach [worked on by me since 1988] integrates literary, historical, socio-political, cultural, linguistic and pedagogical aspects on an analytical and practical level (Dr Christian Fandrych, 2 Aug 1997)
Cultural activities within camps and imprisonments ( 2000 onwards);: Forced and slave labour and forced marches, especially in and from Auschwitz III area (2002 onwards)
Self-preservation and survival strategies ( exploration began in 1986 within the context of Kafka’s shorter fiction, and supervised by Prof John J. White, for which I was awarded distinction and First Class Hons in German with French subsidiary, 1987).
Monographien Some details to follow
Aufsätze und Beiträge
Cabaret/Kabarett: an intercultural project for advanced learners of German within institutionalised language learning, 24th June 1994, IRAAL Conference: Language, Education and Society in a Changing World ( Abstracts of Conference, p. 50)
(with U. Spittler) Vergangenheitsbewältigung mal mit Humor! (AMGS Yearbook, 1997*). Published as a book which I also designed and formatted on my own computer, and distributed at Goethe Institute London, 11 May 1996, with names in order of contribution ‘Jo McNally’ as first named lead author
Between April 1998 and 2002 , a further (self-funded) fifteen international academic conference papers in UK ( Southampton, April 1998), USA ( Amherster Kolloquien zur deutschen Sprache und Literatur April 1999), Germany and Italy on changing styles of humour and critical comment within contemporary and historical contexts ( details also submitted in my (worldwide) job applications from 1998 onwards)
My last ( self-funded) academic conference paper ( also published on CD by secolo) was: British and Commonwealth Prisoners of War put to work in mines at Sosnowitz beneath Auschwitz III. A Neglected Group, Jan 2006