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Bi-directional Learning and Teaching: Lao-German Projects and Tandems

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Final reports of volunteers – new page!

Posted on 31/12/201905/01/2026 by IMartin
All Posts, Internships, Partnership, Research, Teams
intercultural competence, teaching English in Laos

We are happy to announce a new page1 on our “TheLaosExperience” blog and will conclude our very best Happy New

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Job-shadowing, lesson observation, joint research – by Viengvilaiphone Botthoulath

Posted on 30/12/201915/12/2025 by IMartin
All Posts, Global Citizenship, Partnership, Research
Erasmus+ Mobility Programme PH Karlsruhe and Savannakhet University, friendship, intercultural competence

Job-shadowing of colleagues, lesson observation, and joint research at the Karlsruhe University of Education, Germany Job-shadowing  “Hallo”! I am Viengvilaiphone

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“Language education and global citizenship” (4) – 30 years of teaching English in East Asia: An Appraisal (by L. Jakob) (& blog article no. 300!)

Posted on 22/12/201915/12/2025 by IMartin
All Posts, Global Englishes, Research
English

Editor’s note: “30 years of teaching English in East Asia: An Appraisal” by Ms Laura Jakob is the fourth research

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Letters from China – “My first research visit to Savannakhet” by Miaoxing Ye

Posted on 11/12/201905/01/2026 by IMartin
All Posts, First impressions, Letters, Research, Savannakhet University (SKU)
Erasmus+ Mobility Programme PH Karlsruhe and Savannakhet University, journey, Lao food, letters from China

Editor’s note: Ms Miaoxing Ye is 25 years old and a teaching assistant at the Hubei University of Education (Wuhan,

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Our annual Lao-German Friendship Feast (no. 5)

Posted on 08/12/201917/12/2019 by Yvonne-Jacqueline Dyck
All Posts, Intercultural Activities, Partnership
friendship, Lao food, Lao-German friendship feast, University of Education Karsruhe

If you really want to make a friend, go to someone’s house and eat with [them]. (Cesar Chavez)1 Following Prof.

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Transition from Lower Secondary School Phang Heng to the Lao-German Technical College

Posted on 06/12/201905/01/2026 by IMartin
All Posts, First impressions, Laos, Partnership, Teaching experiences, Teams
English, Lao-German Technical College (LGTC), Phang Heng secondary school, teaching English in Laos

How our journey to Laos began in October 2018 Seven months flew by after the Academic International Office at the PH

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The universal language of football – a perfect kick-off to the “The Laos Experience”

Posted on 01/12/201902/12/2019 by IMartin
All Posts, First impressions, Intercultural Activities, Personal highlight
football, Lao culture, Lao-German Technical College (LGTC), Laos, sports

Arriving in Laos – a warm welcome & my first invitation to a game of football I arrived in Lao

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Workshop on 8 April 2019 at the LGTC – “Body language: presenting yourself”

Posted on 28/11/201905/01/2026 by IMartin
All Posts, Workshops
body language, Lao-German Technical College (LGTC), teaching the teachers

Why do a workshop on body language? When the time came for us – Anna-Sophia ten Brink, Siegfried Hadatsch, and

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Workshop on 4 April 2019 – chemistry experiment in the science laboratory (saponification)

Posted on 24/11/201905/01/2026 by IMartin
All Posts, Intercultural Activities, Laos, Teaching experiences, The Lao students, The Lao teachers
Activity Time, chemistry, experiments, Lao-German Technical College (LGTC), science, Science laboratory

Preparation in the science lab1 For a Bachelor’s degree in Bilingual Teaching2 at the PH Karlsruhe, a stay abroad of 20

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Savannakhet – my second hometown in Laos

Posted on 19/11/201927/11/2019 by Rebecca Dengler
All Posts, First impressions, Laos, Savannakhet University (SKU)
Erasmus+ Mobility Programme PH Karlsruhe and Savannakhet University, friendship

Already two months ago I, Rebecca Dengler, moved to Savannakhet to do research for my PhD at Savannakhet University. On

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First volunteer at the VEDI: Welcomed and embraced like family

Posted on 10/11/201927/11/2019 by IMartin
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Since I – Phi Ha Nguyen – arrived in Vientiane, Laos, on the 26th of October 2019,  I have been

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Looking back – our first contact with institutions of education in Laos (2015) & visiting the VEDI

Posted on 02/11/201905/01/2026 by IMartin
All Posts, Partnership, Savannakhet University (SKU)
Lao-German Technical College (LGTC), Vocational Education Development Institute (VEDI)

4 years to the day! Today is the 4th anniversary of our first visit to the LGTC and VEDI on

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    3rd Erasmus+ Mobility Project PH Karlsruhe & Savannakhet University

    Karlsruhe (Germany) & Savannakhet (Lao P.D.R.)

    Erasmus+ Key Action 171 Mobility Project between the University of Education Karlsruhe and Savannakhet University (budget 62.470,00 Euro): After our first two mobility projects, "Bi-directional Teaching and Learning" (2018-2021) and "Education for Sustainable Development and Global Citizenship" (2021-2023), we now embark on "Digital Citizenship and Bi-directional Decoloniality" for 3 years (2023-2026).

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    DAAD "Get Ready for Global Teaching!" at PH Karlsruhe (2025-2029)

    8:00 - 18:00Karlsruhe (Germany)

    With the new Get Ready for Global Teaching! project at PH Karlsruhe, we institutionalize and expand our international collaborations. With our partners in Ghana, Israel, Cameroon, Lao P.D.R., Norway, the UK and the USA, we will focus on global inequality, colonial thought patterns, and post-migrant societies. Through direct exchange, future teachers will further develop their cultural and linguistic awareness, reflect on key issues and challenges of our time from a global perspective, and design educational processes in diversity- and discrimination-sensitive ways.

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