Outputs of Interactive Exploration and Project-based Teaching at Mendel University in Brno, Czech Republic

AbstractThis paper deals with the effectiveness of teaching methods using interactive and project-based teaching. The aim consists in encouraging both linguistic and professional competence through language teaching. A survey covers the effectiveness of the teaching methods and the response of students to the innovation of the German language course in forestry, timber, arboriculture and landscape engineering. In general, students took a positive attitude to the interactive tutorials; on the contrary, they took completely negative attitude to the project-based teaching. Teaching process using the interactive CD is creative and flexible; in addition, it is an open system, which is to be innovated in the future. Despite the negative attitude, we would like to recover project-based teaching and implement project-based learning so that different disciplines could be presented and compared using their contrasts: hunting / wildlife protection, forest harvesting / wildlife protection, landscape engineering / wildlife protection, bark beetle occurrence / wildlife protection. We want our students learn how to express their opinion using proper linguistic means and terminology, encourage and enhance their professional competence