Abitur NRW Englisch 2022 · GK · Nachtermin · Weiterbildungskolleg

Klausurteil A

Uzodinma Iweala

Speak No Evil

The novel centres on the narrator Niru and his family, who have Nigerian roots and live in Washington, D. C..

The airplane rumbles to a full stop, shaking the luggage in the bins overhead and the seat

backs in front. I watch my father relax his grip on the armrest, cross himself and mutter a

silent prayer of thanks before he opens his eyes to cast sideways glances at the passengers

already standing in the aisle. See our people, my father says, but I press my forehead against

5 the window and look out at the carcasses of scrapped airplanes rusting in the tall grass by

the tarmac. [...]

My father becomes an entirely different man when we come to Nigeria. OJ came up with a

term for the condition during a trip we took the summer after his first year in medical school.

He said Daddy had a bad case of Nigeriatoma, an acute swelling of ego and pride that affects

10 diaspora Nigerian men, rendering them unable to accept the idea that a true home might exist

outside of their birth country. Symptoms may vary but are exceptionally pronounced upon

return to native soil and include hyperactivity, elevated mood, grandiose thinking and increased

aggression. The differential includes bipolar disorder and indeed those afflicted have much in

common with patients observed in the thrall of a manic episode. The duration of symptoms

15 may vary, but poor electricity, bad roads and exposure to extreme heat have proven effective

as treatment. My mother laughed at that, my father too, but only because OJ said it. [...]

I’ve always felt weird about coming to Nigeria. Everything is always so overwhelming and

aggressive from the moment we step out of the airport and into a country that my father loves

so deeply he had to run away from it. But I’ve never had a choice. No one has ever asked me.

20 Each summer my father’s momentum dragged us all home. His excitement sent my mother

to the big-box stores to buy clothes, shoes and handbags to distribute to the aunties and uncles

in the village. In the weeks leading up to each trip, he grew restless and wondered why OJ

and I didn’t share his level of enthusiasm. OJ was smart enough to keep his mouth shut and

nod when my father said, come on boys, show some excitement, we’re going home. I never

25 learned. But this is home, I said once as we sat at the kitchen table. No it’s not, my father

snapped, this place is not your home not now, not ever. He speared a piece of beef with his

fork and then let the utensil clatter against the plate. I stared across the table into my

father’s eyes searching for some recognition that here in Washington, we had our own

house full of our things, pictures of us as a family, books collected over the years, my toys,

30 random trinkets. Here my parents drove their own cars and always knew where they were

going. We had our church, and they had jobs they went to every single day. On some days

the word Nigeria never even leaves your mouth, I wanted to shout. My father’s face gave

nothing. He said, Nigeria is home.

But no matter how many times we came “home”, everything was so uncomfortable for me.

35 My father never seemed to notice that his shirt stuck to his back with sweat, or if he noticed

he didn’t care. I hated the fact that everyone walked around in a cloud of body odor so thick

it almost formed a visible aura around them. I hated the discomfort sitting in traffic, discomfort

sitting in the darkness when the power went out – it was always going out – the constant

vibration of the generators and their exhaust fumes. [...]

40 I wanted to ask how I should really feel about streets packed with potholes and gutters full

to the brim with trash and sludge. I wanted to know how to relax when the cars beside you

drove so close that you could see the red veins in the drivers’ eyes because everyone treated

the lane dividers as suggestions. It was almost too confusing to see the old and decrepit so

close to the new and shiny, the jalopies held together by string and prayer next to brand-new

45 Mercedes SUVs, the straw, palm leaf and plywood squatter settlements next to white walls

protecting the large sparkling glass windows of unreasonably sized mansions that would

have looked more comfortable in Hollywood. And everywhere there were people, some going

places, some unmoving and happy to let the world happen around them, but covering every

free space with a visible sense of entitlement no matter how tattered or well-kept their clothing.

50 I had the irrational fear that I would disappear into the mess of all these people and never be

seen or heard from again.

Annotations:

7 OJ – Niru’s brother

13 bipolar disorder – a mental health condition causing extreme mood swings that include emotional highs (mania) and lows (depression)

44 jalopy – an old car in bad condition

Klausurteil A: Leseverstehen und Schreiben integriert

1. Outline how the father and the protagonist each see Nigeria and the US. (Comprehension) [12 Punkte]

Klausurteil A

Uzodinma Iweala

Speak No Evil

The novel centres on the narrator Niru and his family, who have Nigerian roots and live in Washington, D. C..

The airplane rumbles to a full stop, shaking the luggage in the bins overhead and the seat

backs in front. I watch my father relax his grip on the armrest, cross himself and mutter a

silent prayer of thanks before he opens his eyes to cast sideways glances at the passengers

already standing in the aisle. See our people, my father says, but I press my forehead against

5 the window and look out at the carcasses of scrapped airplanes rusting in the tall grass by

the tarmac. [...]

My father becomes an entirely different man when we come to Nigeria. OJ came up with a

term for the condition during a trip we took the summer after his first year in medical school.

He said Daddy had a bad case of Nigeriatoma, an acute swelling of ego and pride that affects

10 diaspora Nigerian men, rendering them unable to accept the idea that a true home might exist

outside of their birth country. Symptoms may vary but are exceptionally pronounced upon

return to native soil and include hyperactivity, elevated mood, grandiose thinking and increased

aggression. The differential includes bipolar disorder and indeed those afflicted have much in

common with patients observed in the thrall of a manic episode. The duration of symptoms

15 may vary, but poor electricity, bad roads and exposure to extreme heat have proven effective

as treatment. My mother laughed at that, my father too, but only because OJ said it. [...]

I’ve always felt weird about coming to Nigeria. Everything is always so overwhelming and

aggressive from the moment we step out of the airport and into a country that my father loves

so deeply he had to run away from it. But I’ve never had a choice. No one has ever asked me.

20 Each summer my father’s momentum dragged us all home. His excitement sent my mother

to the big-box stores to buy clothes, shoes and handbags to distribute to the aunties and uncles

in the village. In the weeks leading up to each trip, he grew restless and wondered why OJ

and I didn’t share his level of enthusiasm. OJ was smart enough to keep his mouth shut and

nod when my father said, come on boys, show some excitement, we’re going home. I never

25 learned. But this is home, I said once as we sat at the kitchen table. No it’s not, my father

snapped, this place is not your home not now, not ever. He speared a piece of beef with his

fork and then let the utensil clatter against the plate. I stared across the table into my

father’s eyes searching for some recognition that here in Washington, we had our own

house full of our things, pictures of us as a family, books collected over the years, my toys,

30 random trinkets. Here my parents drove their own cars and always knew where they were

going. We had our church, and they had jobs they went to every single day. On some days

the word Nigeria never even leaves your mouth, I wanted to shout. My father’s face gave

nothing. He said, Nigeria is home.

But no matter how many times we came “home”, everything was so uncomfortable for me.

35 My father never seemed to notice that his shirt stuck to his back with sweat, or if he noticed

he didn’t care. I hated the fact that everyone walked around in a cloud of body odor so thick

it almost formed a visible aura around them. I hated the discomfort sitting in traffic, discomfort

sitting in the darkness when the power went out – it was always going out – the constant

vibration of the generators and their exhaust fumes. [...]

40 I wanted to ask how I should really feel about streets packed with potholes and gutters full

to the brim with trash and sludge. I wanted to know how to relax when the cars beside you

drove so close that you could see the red veins in the drivers’ eyes because everyone treated

the lane dividers as suggestions. It was almost too confusing to see the old and decrepit so

close to the new and shiny, the jalopies held together by string and prayer next to brand-new

45 Mercedes SUVs, the straw, palm leaf and plywood squatter settlements next to white walls

protecting the large sparkling glass windows of unreasonably sized mansions that would

have looked more comfortable in Hollywood. And everywhere there were people, some going

places, some unmoving and happy to let the world happen around them, but covering every

free space with a visible sense of entitlement no matter how tattered or well-kept their clothing.

50 I had the irrational fear that I would disappear into the mess of all these people and never be

seen or heard from again.

Annotations:

7 OJ – Niru’s brother

13 bipolar disorder – a mental health condition causing extreme mood swings that include emotional highs (mania) and lows (depression)

44 jalopy – an old car in bad condition

Klausurteil A: Leseverstehen und Schreiben integriert

2. Analyse how the protagonist Niru's relationship with his father is portrayed in the text. Concentrate on the point of view and the use of language. (Analysis) [16 Punkte]

Klausurteil A

Uzodinma Iweala

Speak No Evil

The novel centres on the narrator Niru and his family, who have Nigerian roots and live in Washington, D. C..

The airplane rumbles to a full stop, shaking the luggage in the bins overhead and the seat

backs in front. I watch my father relax his grip on the armrest, cross himself and mutter a

silent prayer of thanks before he opens his eyes to cast sideways glances at the passengers

already standing in the aisle. See our people, my father says, but I press my forehead against

5 the window and look out at the carcasses of scrapped airplanes rusting in the tall grass by

the tarmac. [...]

My father becomes an entirely different man when we come to Nigeria. OJ came up with a

term for the condition during a trip we took the summer after his first year in medical school.

He said Daddy had a bad case of Nigeriatoma, an acute swelling of ego and pride that affects

10 diaspora Nigerian men, rendering them unable to accept the idea that a true home might exist

outside of their birth country. Symptoms may vary but are exceptionally pronounced upon

return to native soil and include hyperactivity, elevated mood, grandiose thinking and increased

aggression. The differential includes bipolar disorder and indeed those afflicted have much in

common with patients observed in the thrall of a manic episode. The duration of symptoms

15 may vary, but poor electricity, bad roads and exposure to extreme heat have proven effective

as treatment. My mother laughed at that, my father too, but only because OJ said it. [...]

I’ve always felt weird about coming to Nigeria. Everything is always so overwhelming and

aggressive from the moment we step out of the airport and into a country that my father loves

so deeply he had to run away from it. But I’ve never had a choice. No one has ever asked me.

20 Each summer my father’s momentum dragged us all home. His excitement sent my mother

to the big-box stores to buy clothes, shoes and handbags to distribute to the aunties and uncles

in the village. In the weeks leading up to each trip, he grew restless and wondered why OJ

and I didn’t share his level of enthusiasm. OJ was smart enough to keep his mouth shut and

nod when my father said, come on boys, show some excitement, we’re going home. I never

25 learned. But this is home, I said once as we sat at the kitchen table. No it’s not, my father

snapped, this place is not your home not now, not ever. He speared a piece of beef with his

fork and then let the utensil clatter against the plate. I stared across the table into my

father’s eyes searching for some recognition that here in Washington, we had our own

house full of our things, pictures of us as a family, books collected over the years, my toys,

30 random trinkets. Here my parents drove their own cars and always knew where they were

going. We had our church, and they had jobs they went to every single day. On some days

the word Nigeria never even leaves your mouth, I wanted to shout. My father’s face gave

nothing. He said, Nigeria is home.

But no matter how many times we came “home”, everything was so uncomfortable for me.

35 My father never seemed to notice that his shirt stuck to his back with sweat, or if he noticed

he didn’t care. I hated the fact that everyone walked around in a cloud of body odor so thick

it almost formed a visible aura around them. I hated the discomfort sitting in traffic, discomfort

sitting in the darkness when the power went out – it was always going out – the constant

vibration of the generators and their exhaust fumes. [...]

40 I wanted to ask how I should really feel about streets packed with potholes and gutters full

to the brim with trash and sludge. I wanted to know how to relax when the cars beside you

drove so close that you could see the red veins in the drivers’ eyes because everyone treated

the lane dividers as suggestions. It was almost too confusing to see the old and decrepit so

close to the new and shiny, the jalopies held together by string and prayer next to brand-new

45 Mercedes SUVs, the straw, palm leaf and plywood squatter settlements next to white walls

protecting the large sparkling glass windows of unreasonably sized mansions that would

have looked more comfortable in Hollywood. And everywhere there were people, some going

places, some unmoving and happy to let the world happen around them, but covering every

free space with a visible sense of entitlement no matter how tattered or well-kept their clothing.

50 I had the irrational fear that I would disappear into the mess of all these people and never be

seen or heard from again.

Annotations:

7 OJ – Niru’s brother

13 bipolar disorder – a mental health condition causing extreme mood swings that include emotional highs (mania) and lows (depression)

44 jalopy – an old car in bad condition

Klausurteil A: Leseverstehen und Schreiben integriert

3.1 In her 2020 election campaign, Kamala Harris, the current US Vice President, who herself comes from an immigrant background, repeatedly claimed that “the American Dream belongs to all of us.”

Comment on this claim, drawing on what you have covered in class about American myths and realities. (Evaluation: comment) [14 Punkte]

Klausurteil A

Uzodinma Iweala

Speak No Evil

The novel centres on the narrator Niru and his family, who have Nigerian roots and live in Washington, D. C..

The airplane rumbles to a full stop, shaking the luggage in the bins overhead and the seat

backs in front. I watch my father relax his grip on the armrest, cross himself and mutter a

silent prayer of thanks before he opens his eyes to cast sideways glances at the passengers

already standing in the aisle. See our people, my father says, but I press my forehead against

5 the window and look out at the carcasses of scrapped airplanes rusting in the tall grass by

the tarmac. [...]

My father becomes an entirely different man when we come to Nigeria. OJ came up with a

term for the condition during a trip we took the summer after his first year in medical school.

He said Daddy had a bad case of Nigeriatoma, an acute swelling of ego and pride that affects

10 diaspora Nigerian men, rendering them unable to accept the idea that a true home might exist

outside of their birth country. Symptoms may vary but are exceptionally pronounced upon

return to native soil and include hyperactivity, elevated mood, grandiose thinking and increased

aggression. The differential includes bipolar disorder and indeed those afflicted have much in

common with patients observed in the thrall of a manic episode. The duration of symptoms

15 may vary, but poor electricity, bad roads and exposure to extreme heat have proven effective

as treatment. My mother laughed at that, my father too, but only because OJ said it. [...]

I’ve always felt weird about coming to Nigeria. Everything is always so overwhelming and

aggressive from the moment we step out of the airport and into a country that my father loves

so deeply he had to run away from it. But I’ve never had a choice. No one has ever asked me.

20 Each summer my father’s momentum dragged us all home. His excitement sent my mother

to the big-box stores to buy clothes, shoes and handbags to distribute to the aunties and uncles

in the village. In the weeks leading up to each trip, he grew restless and wondered why OJ

and I didn’t share his level of enthusiasm. OJ was smart enough to keep his mouth shut and

nod when my father said, come on boys, show some excitement, we’re going home. I never

25 learned. But this is home, I said once as we sat at the kitchen table. No it’s not, my father

snapped, this place is not your home not now, not ever. He speared a piece of beef with his

fork and then let the utensil clatter against the plate. I stared across the table into my

father’s eyes searching for some recognition that here in Washington, we had our own

house full of our things, pictures of us as a family, books collected over the years, my toys,

30 random trinkets. Here my parents drove their own cars and always knew where they were

going. We had our church, and they had jobs they went to every single day. On some days

the word Nigeria never even leaves your mouth, I wanted to shout. My father’s face gave

nothing. He said, Nigeria is home.

But no matter how many times we came “home”, everything was so uncomfortable for me.

35 My father never seemed to notice that his shirt stuck to his back with sweat, or if he noticed

he didn’t care. I hated the fact that everyone walked around in a cloud of body odor so thick

it almost formed a visible aura around them. I hated the discomfort sitting in traffic, discomfort

sitting in the darkness when the power went out – it was always going out – the constant

vibration of the generators and their exhaust fumes. [...]

40 I wanted to ask how I should really feel about streets packed with potholes and gutters full

to the brim with trash and sludge. I wanted to know how to relax when the cars beside you

drove so close that you could see the red veins in the drivers’ eyes because everyone treated

the lane dividers as suggestions. It was almost too confusing to see the old and decrepit so

close to the new and shiny, the jalopies held together by string and prayer next to brand-new

45 Mercedes SUVs, the straw, palm leaf and plywood squatter settlements next to white walls

protecting the large sparkling glass windows of unreasonably sized mansions that would

have looked more comfortable in Hollywood. And everywhere there were people, some going

places, some unmoving and happy to let the world happen around them, but covering every

free space with a visible sense of entitlement no matter how tattered or well-kept their clothing.

50 I had the irrational fear that I would disappear into the mess of all these people and never be

seen or heard from again.

Annotations:

7 OJ – Niru’s brother

13 bipolar disorder – a mental health condition causing extreme mood swings that include emotional highs (mania) and lows (depression)

44 jalopy – an old car in bad condition

Klausurteil A: Leseverstehen und Schreiben integriert

3.2 After the dispute at the kitchen table (ll. 25 – 33) the father sits down to write a letter to his best friend in Nigeria reflecting on his feelings after the incident as well as his hopes and fears for the future. (Evaluation: re-creation of text) [14 Punkte]

Klausurteil A

Uzodinma Iweala

Speak No Evil

The novel centres on the narrator Niru and his family, who have Nigerian roots and live in Washington, D. C..

The airplane rumbles to a full stop, shaking the luggage in the bins overhead and the seat

backs in front. I watch my father relax his grip on the armrest, cross himself and mutter a

silent prayer of thanks before he opens his eyes to cast sideways glances at the passengers

already standing in the aisle. See our people, my father says, but I press my forehead against

5 the window and look out at the carcasses of scrapped airplanes rusting in the tall grass by

the tarmac. [...]

My father becomes an entirely different man when we come to Nigeria. OJ came up with a

term for the condition during a trip we took the summer after his first year in medical school.

He said Daddy had a bad case of Nigeriatoma, an acute swelling of ego and pride that affects

10 diaspora Nigerian men, rendering them unable to accept the idea that a true home might exist

outside of their birth country. Symptoms may vary but are exceptionally pronounced upon

return to native soil and include hyperactivity, elevated mood, grandiose thinking and increased

aggression. The differential includes bipolar disorder and indeed those afflicted have much in

common with patients observed in the thrall of a manic episode. The duration of symptoms

15 may vary, but poor electricity, bad roads and exposure to extreme heat have proven effective

as treatment. My mother laughed at that, my father too, but only because OJ said it. [...]

I’ve always felt weird about coming to Nigeria. Everything is always so overwhelming and

aggressive from the moment we step out of the airport and into a country that my father loves

so deeply he had to run away from it. But I’ve never had a choice. No one has ever asked me.

20 Each summer my father’s momentum dragged us all home. His excitement sent my mother

to the big-box stores to buy clothes, shoes and handbags to distribute to the aunties and uncles

in the village. In the weeks leading up to each trip, he grew restless and wondered why OJ

and I didn’t share his level of enthusiasm. OJ was smart enough to keep his mouth shut and

nod when my father said, come on boys, show some excitement, we’re going home. I never

25 learned. But this is home, I said once as we sat at the kitchen table. No it’s not, my father

snapped, this place is not your home not now, not ever. He speared a piece of beef with his

fork and then let the utensil clatter against the plate. I stared across the table into my

father’s eyes searching for some recognition that here in Washington, we had our own

house full of our things, pictures of us as a family, books collected over the years, my toys,

30 random trinkets. Here my parents drove their own cars and always knew where they were

going. We had our church, and they had jobs they went to every single day. On some days

the word Nigeria never even leaves your mouth, I wanted to shout. My father’s face gave

nothing. He said, Nigeria is home.

But no matter how many times we came “home”, everything was so uncomfortable for me.

35 My father never seemed to notice that his shirt stuck to his back with sweat, or if he noticed

he didn’t care. I hated the fact that everyone walked around in a cloud of body odor so thick

it almost formed a visible aura around them. I hated the discomfort sitting in traffic, discomfort

sitting in the darkness when the power went out – it was always going out – the constant

vibration of the generators and their exhaust fumes. [...]

40 I wanted to ask how I should really feel about streets packed with potholes and gutters full

to the brim with trash and sludge. I wanted to know how to relax when the cars beside you

drove so close that you could see the red veins in the drivers’ eyes because everyone treated

the lane dividers as suggestions. It was almost too confusing to see the old and decrepit so

close to the new and shiny, the jalopies held together by string and prayer next to brand-new

45 Mercedes SUVs, the straw, palm leaf and plywood squatter settlements next to white walls

protecting the large sparkling glass windows of unreasonably sized mansions that would

have looked more comfortable in Hollywood. And everywhere there were people, some going

places, some unmoving and happy to let the world happen around them, but covering every

free space with a visible sense of entitlement no matter how tattered or well-kept their clothing.

50 I had the irrational fear that I would disappear into the mess of all these people and never be

seen or heard from again.

Annotations:

7 OJ – Niru’s brother

13 bipolar disorder – a mental health condition causing extreme mood swings that include emotional highs (mania) and lows (depression)

44 jalopy – an old car in bad condition

Klausurteil B: Sprachmittlung isoliert

Luise Sammann: Mehrsprachiges Aufwachsen: Wie Kinder fließend Deutsch lernen

Bei diesem Text handelt es sich um einen Ausschnitt aus einem umfangreicheren Artikel zum Thema Immigration und Mehrsprachigkeit in Deutschland.

Jahrzehntelang galt das Credo: Zu Hause muss Deutsch gesprochen werden. Nur dann sei die Integration zugezogener Familien möglich. Aber die Forschung zeigt: Kinder müssen nicht die Sprache ihrer Eltern vergessen, um eine andere zu lernen. [...]

Nani Rostamian kam mit ihren Eltern und den drei älteren Geschwistern nach Deutschland, als sie sieben Jahre alt war. 30 Jahre später sitzt sie in ihrer Berliner Neubauwohnung und erinnert sich.

„Meine Eltern hatten ja gerade andere Probleme und Sorgen, erstmal hier sich zu setteln und Fuß zu fassen. Das war mit vielen Schwierigkeiten verbunden. Das heißt, sie hatten eigentlich nur einen Appell an uns. Und zwar: Lernt die Sprache jetzt so schnell wie möglich, weil wir sonst hier ein wenig aufgeschmissen sind.“

Der Appell der Eltern kam an. Innerhalb kürzester Zeit lernten Nani und ihre Geschwister Deutsch, durften den Förderunterricht verlassen, den sie anfangs noch nach Schulschluss hatten besuchen müssen. Wegen ihrer Sprachbegabung ging Nani später gar auf ein bilingual englisch-deutsches Gymnasium, studierte dann Medizin. Heute arbeitet sie als Chirurgin an einem Berliner Krankenhaus.

Für die deutsche Mehrheitsgesellschaft könnte die hübsche junge Frau mit den schwarzen Haaren und dem offenen Lächeln als eine Art „Vorzeigemigrantin“ herhalten. Das Bundesministerium für Migration und Flüchtlinge in Berlin wirbt auf seiner Website gern mit Geschichten wie ihrer. Doch von dem Preis, den die heute 37-Jährige für ihren Erfolg zahlte, steht nichts in ihrem Lebenslauf.

„Ich spreche gebrochen Farsi. Das ist das abgehakelte Farsi eines Kindes. Ich kann eigentlich auch nicht richtig lesen und schreiben auf Persisch. Dadurch haben wir auch unsere Verbindung zu den Verwandten ganz schön verloren eigentlich. Ja.“

Auch mit den eigenen Eltern, die neben der Erziehung ihrer vier Kinder und der Arbeit im neuen Land nie so gut Deutsch lernten wie Nani und ihre Geschwister, kann die Tochter heute nicht mehr über alles sprechen.

„Ich kann mit ihnen zum Beispiel nicht über Medizin sprechen richtig. Über meinen Beruf. Und wenn ich dann mal unbedingt was erklären soll, dann greife ich zu Stift und Papier oder hole meinen Anatomieatlas und zeige, was ich meine. [...]“

Während Nani spricht, wiegt sie ihre zwei Wochen alte Tochter Lilou in den Armen. Weil sie selbst ihre einstige Muttersprache kaum noch beherrscht, kann sie sie nicht an ihre Kinder weitergeben. Zumindest an Traditionen aber, das hat sie sich geschworen, soll es in ihrer jungen Familie nie mangeln. Ganz gleich aus welcher Kultur sie stammen.

„Bei uns ist es tatsächlich ein sehr schleichender Prozess gewesen des sich Integrierens, beziehungsweise die eigenen Wurzeln zu vergessen, muss man eigentlich sagen. Wir haben die persischen Festtage anfangs gefeiert, und dann wurde es immer schwieriger, das aufrecht zu erhalten. Viele Festtage fielen dann auf Wochentage, die halt hier keine Feiertage sind, und irgendwann fielen immer mehr die persischen Feiertage weg, bis wir nur noch das Neujahrsfest gefeiert haben. Und irgendwann wurde das auch zu unpraktikabel.“

Stattdessen stellten die Eltern eines Tages im Dezember einen Weihnachtsbaum auf. Kauften den Kindern Geschenke, damit sie gleichzeitig mit ihren Klassenkameraden beschenkt wurden. Die Traditionen, mit denen sie selbst einst groß geworden waren, spielten kaum noch eine Rolle im Leben der Familie. Den Rahmen, der ihr selbst oft gefehlt habe, will Nani ihren eigenen Kindern von Anfang an mitgeben. [...] „[D]as haben meine Eltern nicht hinbekommen.“

Eltern, die ihr Bestes gegeben – ihre vier Kinder in einem fremden Land groß gezogen und auf die Universität geschickt haben. Und die dabei eigentlich nur das taten, was die deutsche Mehrheitsgesellschaft von Einwanderern verlangt: Integriert euch, lernt Deutsch.

4.

You are taking part in an international school project on multicultural identities. Every participant is asked to present one example from their own country.

Write an online article for the project website in which you present Nani and her family, as well as the difficulties her parents met after arriving in Germany and the difficulties Nani deals with today. [18 Punkte]

Klausurteil A

Joseph Harker

The British press isn’t racist, say the editors. That just shows how long the problem will endure

A few years ago, on the day singer Tom Jones revealed he may have Black ancestry, the

Daily Mail’s chief cartoonist, Mac, went to work. How did he depict this Black lineage?

With a couple of tribal figures, in the jungle: one a topless mother with a baby at her breast;

the other a spear-carrying “savage” with three human heads dangling in front of him.

5 It was the most clearly racist depiction of Black people one could possibly imagine. It went

in the next day’s paper.

By chance, on the day of publication the Daily Mail was hosting an event on behalf of the

Journalism Diversity Fund, which gives aspiring journalists from racial-minority backgrounds

a helping hand with training courses. As someone who works on diversity in the press, I was

10 invited.

A senior Daily Mail editor gave a fulsome speech about the fund’s good work, and why the

press needs more diversity. Afterwards, I asked him about the cartoon, and whether he saw

any disconnect. I wasn’t sure what reaction I would get but I was still shocked: “What the

hell are you saying?” he fumed. “I see nothing wrong with it. You’re simply trying to make

15 trouble.”

I’d expected him to be mildly embarrassed by the cartoon, and to try to laugh it off. Instead,

despite the crudest of stereotypes it portrayed, he saw absolutely nothing wrong with it at

all – and I became the accused.

Later, at the same event, I talked to one of the Mail’s senior PR honchos. He told me: “Look

20 what we’re doing here tonight, hosting this diversity event. This is what really matters.”

I told him he was wrong. That what matters is what goes in their product every day; that they

can spend thousands on feelgood diversity events without it making a single difference to

how their organisation operates.

I thought back to these conversations yesterday, when – in the aftermath of Harry and

25 Meghan’s claims about racism in the media – the Society of Editors issued an immediate

rebuttal 2. “The press is most certainly not racist,” it said, absolving itself immediately of even

the slightest guilt over Meghan’s coverage. According to the society, all the press does is

hold the powerful to account.

That will be news to many people of colour in the UK. Not only have there been glaringly

30 different takes on Meghan compared to Kate (the baby-bump-caressing; the avocados), but

beyond the royal family there are stark contrasts in the way Black and white people are

reported on. […]

The society also denied being “bigoted” – but as anyone with the most basic understanding

of the issue knows, this is not the same as racism, which operates in far more subtle ways

35 than name-calling or “No Blacks” signs.

Despite this, there’s plenty of evidence of the crude kind of racism within the British press:

from the conflation of Asians with terrorism or grooming gangs, to the association of Black

boys with gang violence.

And underpinning this is the long-running institutional racism which the press has never shaken

40 off: the unthinking racism that makes change so snail’s-pace. It’s seen in the dominant culture

of almost every national newspaper: middle-class, white, Oxbridge. You’ll find the occasional

minority-ethnic person in a senior role, but nothing to seriously challenge the corporate thinking.

For the most part, the agenda-setting discussions about race, or religion, take place among a

small group of white people: as people of colour, we are mostly spoken about, not to; and it’s

45 a rare thing indeed when we get to lead the discussion.

These are the issues at the heart of the racial disparity in news reporting: subtle biases come

together in an in-group which reinforces them, and then key decisions are made, unchallenged

by outsiders. It’s why a group of editors can all agree with themselves that the crudest racial

stereotypes are just a bit of fun.

50 The first way to tackle this is to accept that there’s a problem: that racism may be an issue,

given that only 6% of British journalists are ethnic-minority, and most of them are likely to

be in the most junior roles. Instead, the Society of Editors has come out with a kneejerk reaction

saying there’s no problem at all. […]

[I]f those in charge are so defensive about even the vaguest allegations of discrimination, then

55 what are the chances of them ever admitting the need for real change?

One thing this whole episode shows is that for some British editors, box-ticking is fine: but

don’t you dare try to question the way their institutions truly operate. And don’t expect any

serious challenge to racism in the newsrooms anytime soon.

2 After resigning as active members of the royal family, partly because of the British press’ treatment of Meghan, Prince Harry and his wife Meghan gave an interview, which was broadcast worldwide.

Annotations:

2 · Daily Mail – a major tabloid newspaper in the UK

19 · honcho – informal: the person in charge

25 · Society of Editors – British association of people working in the media

30 · Kate – Kate Middleton; wife of Prince William and Meghan Markle’s sister-in-law

30 · baby-bump-caressing, the avocados – examples of the same behaviour and eating habits by Meghan Markle and Kate Middleton which were reported on differently by the British press presenting Meghan in a negative way

37 · conflation – here: association

37 · grooming – here: befriending a child with the intention of establishing an abusive relationship

41 · Oxbridge – contraction of Oxford and Cambridge, two of the most prestigious British universities

52 · kneejerk – here: an impulsive reaction as a result of habit rather than careful consideration

56 · box-ticking – here: the process of doing something just to have it done

1. Outline how Joseph Harker views the British press and the Society of Editors according to the extract. (Comprehension) [12 Punkte]

Klausurteil A

Joseph Harker

The British press isn’t racist, say the editors. That just shows how long the problem will endure

A few years ago, on the day singer Tom Jones revealed he may have Black ancestry, the

Daily Mail’s chief cartoonist, Mac, went to work. How did he depict this Black lineage?

With a couple of tribal figures, in the jungle: one a topless mother with a baby at her breast;

the other a spear-carrying “savage” with three human heads dangling in front of him.

5 It was the most clearly racist depiction of Black people one could possibly imagine. It went

in the next day’s paper.

By chance, on the day of publication the Daily Mail was hosting an event on behalf of the

Journalism Diversity Fund, which gives aspiring journalists from racial-minority backgrounds

a helping hand with training courses. As someone who works on diversity in the press, I was

10 invited.

A senior Daily Mail editor gave a fulsome speech about the fund’s good work, and why the

press needs more diversity. Afterwards, I asked him about the cartoon, and whether he saw

any disconnect. I wasn’t sure what reaction I would get but I was still shocked: “What the

hell are you saying?” he fumed. “I see nothing wrong with it. You’re simply trying to make

15 trouble.”

I’d expected him to be mildly embarrassed by the cartoon, and to try to laugh it off. Instead,

despite the crudest of stereotypes it portrayed, he saw absolutely nothing wrong with it at

all – and I became the accused.

Later, at the same event, I talked to one of the Mail’s senior PR honchos. He told me: “Look

20 what we’re doing here tonight, hosting this diversity event. This is what really matters.”

I told him he was wrong. That what matters is what goes in their product every day; that they

can spend thousands on feelgood diversity events without it making a single difference to

how their organisation operates.

I thought back to these conversations yesterday, when – in the aftermath of Harry and

25 Meghan’s claims about racism in the media – the Society of Editors issued an immediate

rebuttal 2. “The press is most certainly not racist,” it said, absolving itself immediately of even

the slightest guilt over Meghan’s coverage. According to the society, all the press does is

hold the powerful to account.

That will be news to many people of colour in the UK. Not only have there been glaringly

30 different takes on Meghan compared to Kate (the baby-bump-caressing; the avocados), but

beyond the royal family there are stark contrasts in the way Black and white people are

reported on. […]

The society also denied being “bigoted” – but as anyone with the most basic understanding

of the issue knows, this is not the same as racism, which operates in far more subtle ways

35 than name-calling or “No Blacks” signs.

Despite this, there’s plenty of evidence of the crude kind of racism within the British press:

from the conflation of Asians with terrorism or grooming gangs, to the association of Black

boys with gang violence.

And underpinning this is the long-running institutional racism which the press has never shaken

40 off: the unthinking racism that makes change so snail’s-pace. It’s seen in the dominant culture

of almost every national newspaper: middle-class, white, Oxbridge. You’ll find the occasional

minority-ethnic person in a senior role, but nothing to seriously challenge the corporate thinking.

For the most part, the agenda-setting discussions about race, or religion, take place among a

small group of white people: as people of colour, we are mostly spoken about, not to; and it’s

45 a rare thing indeed when we get to lead the discussion.

These are the issues at the heart of the racial disparity in news reporting: subtle biases come

together in an in-group which reinforces them, and then key decisions are made, unchallenged

by outsiders. It’s why a group of editors can all agree with themselves that the crudest racial

stereotypes are just a bit of fun.

50 The first way to tackle this is to accept that there’s a problem: that racism may be an issue,

given that only 6% of British journalists are ethnic-minority, and most of them are likely to

be in the most junior roles. Instead, the Society of Editors has come out with a kneejerk reaction

saying there’s no problem at all. […]

[I]f those in charge are so defensive about even the vaguest allegations of discrimination, then

55 what are the chances of them ever admitting the need for real change?

One thing this whole episode shows is that for some British editors, box-ticking is fine: but

don’t you dare try to question the way their institutions truly operate. And don’t expect any

serious challenge to racism in the newsrooms anytime soon.

2 After resigning as active members of the royal family, partly because of the British press’ treatment of Meghan, Prince Harry and his wife Meghan gave an interview, which was broadcast worldwide.

Annotations:

2 · Daily Mail – a major tabloid newspaper in the UK

19 · honcho – informal: the person in charge

25 · Society of Editors – British association of people working in the media

30 · Kate – Kate Middleton; wife of Prince William and Meghan Markle’s sister-in-law

30 · baby-bump-caressing, the avocados – examples of the same behaviour and eating habits by Meghan Markle and Kate Middleton which were reported on differently by the British press presenting Meghan in a negative way

37 · conflation – here: association

37 · grooming – here: befriending a child with the intention of establishing an abusive relationship

41 · Oxbridge – contraction of Oxford and Cambridge, two of the most prestigious British universities

52 · kneejerk – here: an impulsive reaction as a result of habit rather than careful consideration

56 · box-ticking – here: the process of doing something just to have it done

2. Analyse the way in which the author conveys his opinions, concentrating on communicative strategies and the use of language. (Analysis) [16 Punkte]

Klausurteil A

Joseph Harker

The British press isn’t racist, say the editors. That just shows how long the problem will endure

A few years ago, on the day singer Tom Jones revealed he may have Black ancestry, the

Daily Mail’s chief cartoonist, Mac, went to work. How did he depict this Black lineage?

With a couple of tribal figures, in the jungle: one a topless mother with a baby at her breast;

the other a spear-carrying “savage” with three human heads dangling in front of him.

5 It was the most clearly racist depiction of Black people one could possibly imagine. It went

in the next day’s paper.

By chance, on the day of publication the Daily Mail was hosting an event on behalf of the

Journalism Diversity Fund, which gives aspiring journalists from racial-minority backgrounds

a helping hand with training courses. As someone who works on diversity in the press, I was

10 invited.

A senior Daily Mail editor gave a fulsome speech about the fund’s good work, and why the

press needs more diversity. Afterwards, I asked him about the cartoon, and whether he saw

any disconnect. I wasn’t sure what reaction I would get but I was still shocked: “What the

hell are you saying?” he fumed. “I see nothing wrong with it. You’re simply trying to make

15 trouble.”

I’d expected him to be mildly embarrassed by the cartoon, and to try to laugh it off. Instead,

despite the crudest of stereotypes it portrayed, he saw absolutely nothing wrong with it at

all – and I became the accused.

Later, at the same event, I talked to one of the Mail’s senior PR honchos. He told me: “Look

20 what we’re doing here tonight, hosting this diversity event. This is what really matters.”

I told him he was wrong. That what matters is what goes in their product every day; that they

can spend thousands on feelgood diversity events without it making a single difference to

how their organisation operates.

I thought back to these conversations yesterday, when – in the aftermath of Harry and

25 Meghan’s claims about racism in the media – the Society of Editors issued an immediate

rebuttal 2. “The press is most certainly not racist,” it said, absolving itself immediately of even

the slightest guilt over Meghan’s coverage. According to the society, all the press does is

hold the powerful to account.

That will be news to many people of colour in the UK. Not only have there been glaringly

30 different takes on Meghan compared to Kate (the baby-bump-caressing; the avocados), but

beyond the royal family there are stark contrasts in the way Black and white people are

reported on. […]

The society also denied being “bigoted” – but as anyone with the most basic understanding

of the issue knows, this is not the same as racism, which operates in far more subtle ways

35 than name-calling or “No Blacks” signs.

Despite this, there’s plenty of evidence of the crude kind of racism within the British press:

from the conflation of Asians with terrorism or grooming gangs, to the association of Black

boys with gang violence.

And underpinning this is the long-running institutional racism which the press has never shaken

40 off: the unthinking racism that makes change so snail’s-pace. It’s seen in the dominant culture

of almost every national newspaper: middle-class, white, Oxbridge. You’ll find the occasional

minority-ethnic person in a senior role, but nothing to seriously challenge the corporate thinking.

For the most part, the agenda-setting discussions about race, or religion, take place among a

small group of white people: as people of colour, we are mostly spoken about, not to; and it’s

45 a rare thing indeed when we get to lead the discussion.

These are the issues at the heart of the racial disparity in news reporting: subtle biases come

together in an in-group which reinforces them, and then key decisions are made, unchallenged

by outsiders. It’s why a group of editors can all agree with themselves that the crudest racial

stereotypes are just a bit of fun.

50 The first way to tackle this is to accept that there’s a problem: that racism may be an issue,

given that only 6% of British journalists are ethnic-minority, and most of them are likely to

be in the most junior roles. Instead, the Society of Editors has come out with a kneejerk reaction

saying there’s no problem at all. […]

[I]f those in charge are so defensive about even the vaguest allegations of discrimination, then

55 what are the chances of them ever admitting the need for real change?

One thing this whole episode shows is that for some British editors, box-ticking is fine: but

don’t you dare try to question the way their institutions truly operate. And don’t expect any

serious challenge to racism in the newsrooms anytime soon.

2 After resigning as active members of the royal family, partly because of the British press’ treatment of Meghan, Prince Harry and his wife Meghan gave an interview, which was broadcast worldwide.

Annotations:

2 · Daily Mail – a major tabloid newspaper in the UK

19 · honcho – informal: the person in charge

25 · Society of Editors – British association of people working in the media

30 · Kate – Kate Middleton; wife of Prince William and Meghan Markle’s sister-in-law

30 · baby-bump-caressing, the avocados – examples of the same behaviour and eating habits by Meghan Markle and Kate Middleton which were reported on differently by the British press presenting Meghan in a negative way

37 · conflation – here: association

37 · grooming – here: befriending a child with the intention of establishing an abusive relationship

41 · Oxbridge – contraction of Oxford and Cambridge, two of the most prestigious British universities

52 · kneejerk – here: an impulsive reaction as a result of habit rather than careful consideration

56 · box-ticking – here: the process of doing something just to have it done

3.1 According to a recent report, in the UK "fewer than 1% of English Literature students study a book by a writer of colour [...], despite the fact that 34% of school students in England are Black, Asian or minority ethnic." The school board has reacted by changing the curriculum so that it now features more writers of colour. Drawing on Harker's article and the work done in class, assess to what extent this decision represents progress for multicultural Britain. (Evaluation: comment) [14 Punkte]

Klausurteil A

Joseph Harker

The British press isn’t racist, say the editors. That just shows how long the problem will endure

A few years ago, on the day singer Tom Jones revealed he may have Black ancestry, the

Daily Mail’s chief cartoonist, Mac, went to work. How did he depict this Black lineage?

With a couple of tribal figures, in the jungle: one a topless mother with a baby at her breast;

the other a spear-carrying “savage” with three human heads dangling in front of him.

5 It was the most clearly racist depiction of Black people one could possibly imagine. It went

in the next day’s paper.

By chance, on the day of publication the Daily Mail was hosting an event on behalf of the

Journalism Diversity Fund, which gives aspiring journalists from racial-minority backgrounds

a helping hand with training courses. As someone who works on diversity in the press, I was

10 invited.

A senior Daily Mail editor gave a fulsome speech about the fund’s good work, and why the

press needs more diversity. Afterwards, I asked him about the cartoon, and whether he saw

any disconnect. I wasn’t sure what reaction I would get but I was still shocked: “What the

hell are you saying?” he fumed. “I see nothing wrong with it. You’re simply trying to make

15 trouble.”

I’d expected him to be mildly embarrassed by the cartoon, and to try to laugh it off. Instead,

despite the crudest of stereotypes it portrayed, he saw absolutely nothing wrong with it at

all – and I became the accused.

Later, at the same event, I talked to one of the Mail’s senior PR honchos. He told me: “Look

20 what we’re doing here tonight, hosting this diversity event. This is what really matters.”

I told him he was wrong. That what matters is what goes in their product every day; that they

can spend thousands on feelgood diversity events without it making a single difference to

how their organisation operates.

I thought back to these conversations yesterday, when – in the aftermath of Harry and

25 Meghan’s claims about racism in the media – the Society of Editors issued an immediate

rebuttal 2. “The press is most certainly not racist,” it said, absolving itself immediately of even

the slightest guilt over Meghan’s coverage. According to the society, all the press does is

hold the powerful to account.

That will be news to many people of colour in the UK. Not only have there been glaringly

30 different takes on Meghan compared to Kate (the baby-bump-caressing; the avocados), but

beyond the royal family there are stark contrasts in the way Black and white people are

reported on. […]

The society also denied being “bigoted” – but as anyone with the most basic understanding

of the issue knows, this is not the same as racism, which operates in far more subtle ways

35 than name-calling or “No Blacks” signs.

Despite this, there’s plenty of evidence of the crude kind of racism within the British press:

from the conflation of Asians with terrorism or grooming gangs, to the association of Black

boys with gang violence.

And underpinning this is the long-running institutional racism which the press has never shaken

40 off: the unthinking racism that makes change so snail’s-pace. It’s seen in the dominant culture

of almost every national newspaper: middle-class, white, Oxbridge. You’ll find the occasional

minority-ethnic person in a senior role, but nothing to seriously challenge the corporate thinking.

For the most part, the agenda-setting discussions about race, or religion, take place among a

small group of white people: as people of colour, we are mostly spoken about, not to; and it’s

45 a rare thing indeed when we get to lead the discussion.

These are the issues at the heart of the racial disparity in news reporting: subtle biases come

together in an in-group which reinforces them, and then key decisions are made, unchallenged

by outsiders. It’s why a group of editors can all agree with themselves that the crudest racial

stereotypes are just a bit of fun.

50 The first way to tackle this is to accept that there’s a problem: that racism may be an issue,

given that only 6% of British journalists are ethnic-minority, and most of them are likely to

be in the most junior roles. Instead, the Society of Editors has come out with a kneejerk reaction

saying there’s no problem at all. […]

[I]f those in charge are so defensive about even the vaguest allegations of discrimination, then

55 what are the chances of them ever admitting the need for real change?

One thing this whole episode shows is that for some British editors, box-ticking is fine: but

don’t you dare try to question the way their institutions truly operate. And don’t expect any

serious challenge to racism in the newsrooms anytime soon.

2 After resigning as active members of the royal family, partly because of the British press’ treatment of Meghan, Prince Harry and his wife Meghan gave an interview, which was broadcast worldwide.

Annotations:

2 · Daily Mail – a major tabloid newspaper in the UK

19 · honcho – informal: the person in charge

25 · Society of Editors – British association of people working in the media

30 · Kate – Kate Middleton; wife of Prince William and Meghan Markle’s sister-in-law

30 · baby-bump-caressing, the avocados – examples of the same behaviour and eating habits by Meghan Markle and Kate Middleton which were reported on differently by the British press presenting Meghan in a negative way

37 · conflation – here: association

37 · grooming – here: befriending a child with the intention of establishing an abusive relationship

41 · Oxbridge – contraction of Oxford and Cambridge, two of the most prestigious British universities

52 · kneejerk – here: an impulsive reaction as a result of habit rather than careful consideration

56 · box-ticking – here: the process of doing something just to have it done

3.2 After finishing school, you are about to start studying journalism at university. To be admitted, you are required to write a letter to the head of the department in which you reflect on what, in your view, constitutes good journalism today and which major challenges journalists have to deal with. (Evaluation: re-creation of text) [14 Punkte]

Klausurteil B: Sprachmittlung isoliert

A British friend of yours is completing an internship with the initiative Diversity in Arts and Culture. She/He would like to find out more about diversity in German films and series. You have found Philipp Jedicke's article and now write an email to your friend in which you outline his statements on the current situation in Germany and on UFA's plans to improve it.

[18 Punkte]

Klausurteil A

Joseph Harker

The British press isn’t racist, say the editors. That just shows how long the problem will endure

A few years ago, on the day singer Tom Jones revealed he may have Black ancestry, the

Daily Mail’s chief cartoonist, Mac, went to work. How did he depict this Black lineage?

With a couple of tribal figures, in the jungle: one a topless mother with a baby at her breast;

the other a spear-carrying “savage” with three human heads dangling in front of him.

5 It was the most clearly racist depiction of Black people one could possibly imagine. It went

in the next day’s paper.

By chance, on the day of publication the Daily Mail was hosting an event on behalf of the

Journalism Diversity Fund, which gives aspiring journalists from racial-minority backgrounds

a helping hand with training courses. As someone who works on diversity in the press, I was

10 invited.

A senior Daily Mail editor gave a fulsome speech about the fund’s good work, and why the

press needs more diversity. Afterwards, I asked him about the cartoon, and whether he saw

any disconnect. I wasn’t sure what reaction I would get but I was still shocked: “What the

hell are you saying?” he fumed. “I see nothing wrong with it. You’re simply trying to make

15 trouble.”

I’d expected him to be mildly embarrassed by the cartoon, and to try to laugh it off. Instead,

despite the crudest of stereotypes it portrayed, he saw absolutely nothing wrong with it at

all – and I became the accused.

Later, at the same event, I talked to one of the Mail’s senior PR honchos. He told me: “Look

20 what we’re doing here tonight, hosting this diversity event. This is what really matters.”

I told him he was wrong. That what matters is what goes in their product every day; that they

can spend thousands on feelgood diversity events without it making a single difference to

how their organisation operates.

I thought back to these conversations yesterday, when – in the aftermath of Harry and

25 Meghan’s claims about racism in the media – the Society of Editors issued an immediate

rebuttal 2. “The press is most certainly not racist,” it said, absolving itself immediately of even

the slightest guilt over Meghan’s coverage. According to the society, all the press does is

hold the powerful to account.

That will be news to many people of colour in the UK. Not only have there been glaringly

30 different takes on Meghan compared to Kate (the baby-bump-caressing; the avocados), but

beyond the royal family there are stark contrasts in the way Black and white people are

reported on. […]

The society also denied being “bigoted” – but as anyone with the most basic understanding

of the issue knows, this is not the same as racism, which operates in far more subtle ways

35 than name-calling or “No Blacks” signs.

Despite this, there’s plenty of evidence of the crude kind of racism within the British press:

from the conflation of Asians with terrorism or grooming gangs, to the association of Black

boys with gang violence.

And underpinning this is the long-running institutional racism which the press has never shaken

40 off: the unthinking racism that makes change so snail’s-pace. It’s seen in the dominant culture

of almost every national newspaper: middle-class, white, Oxbridge. You’ll find the occasional

minority-ethnic person in a senior role, but nothing to seriously challenge the corporate thinking.

For the most part, the agenda-setting discussions about race, or religion, take place among a

small group of white people: as people of colour, we are mostly spoken about, not to; and it’s

45 a rare thing indeed when we get to lead the discussion.

These are the issues at the heart of the racial disparity in news reporting: subtle biases come

together in an in-group which reinforces them, and then key decisions are made, unchallenged

by outsiders. It’s why a group of editors can all agree with themselves that the crudest racial

stereotypes are just a bit of fun.

50 The first way to tackle this is to accept that there’s a problem: that racism may be an issue,

given that only 6% of British journalists are ethnic-minority, and most of them are likely to

be in the most junior roles. Instead, the Society of Editors has come out with a kneejerk reaction

saying there’s no problem at all. […]

[I]f those in charge are so defensive about even the vaguest allegations of discrimination, then

55 what are the chances of them ever admitting the need for real change?

One thing this whole episode shows is that for some British editors, box-ticking is fine: but

don’t you dare try to question the way their institutions truly operate. And don’t expect any

serious challenge to racism in the newsrooms anytime soon.

2 After resigning as active members of the royal family, partly because of the British press’ treatment of Meghan, Prince Harry and his wife Meghan gave an interview, which was broadcast worldwide.

Annotations:

2 · Daily Mail – a major tabloid newspaper in the UK

19 · honcho – informal: the person in charge

25 · Society of Editors – British association of people working in the media

30 · Kate – Kate Middleton; wife of Prince William and Meghan Markle’s sister-in-law

30 · baby-bump-caressing, the avocados – examples of the same behaviour and eating habits by Meghan Markle and Kate Middleton which were reported on differently by the British press presenting Meghan in a negative way

37 · conflation – here: association

37 · grooming – here: befriending a child with the intention of establishing an abusive relationship

41 · Oxbridge – contraction of Oxford and Cambridge, two of the most prestigious British universities

52 · kneejerk – here: an impulsive reaction as a result of habit rather than careful consideration

56 · box-ticking – here: the process of doing something just to have it done

Philipp Jedicke

Mehr Diversität in deutschen Filmen und Serien

Der deutsche Film ist weiß. Käseweiß. In TV- wie in Kinoproduktionen sieht man meist „Biodeutsche", also weiße, mitteleuropäisch aussehende Menschen – vorwiegend männlich. Deshalb standen deutsche Filmproduktionen in den vergangenen Jahren immer wieder in der Kritik, die heutige deutsche Gesellschaft nicht so abzubilden, wie sie ist. Schauspielerinnen und Schauspieler beklagen in Interviews den Mangel an Frauenrollen und die vielen klischeebeladenen Rollen, die Menschen mit Migrationshintergrund meist angeboten werden: als Kleinkriminelle, Clanchefs oder exotische Verführer.

Nach den Weckrufen der vergangenen Jahre, darunter die #Metoo-Bewegung und zuletzt die Black Lives Matter-Proteste, haben sich international immer mehr Institutionen der Filmbranche dazu verpflichtet, ihre Gremien, Vorstände oder Besetzungen „durchzulüften" und die moderne Gesellschaft mit mehr Frauenrollen, mehr Schauspielerinnen mit Migrationshintergrund oder mehr Menschen aus der LGBTIQ+-Community zu spiegeln. Nun hat sich auch die UFA, Deutschlands ältestes Filmunternehmen, eine Selbstverpflichtung in Sachen Diversität verordnet. Die UFA mit Sitz in Potsdam ist eines der größten europäischen Unternehmen seiner Art und produziert sowohl fürs Kino als auch fürs Fernsehen.

Wie eine Sprecherin des Unternehmens nun der Deutschen Presse-Agentur mitteilte, strebe die UFA an, „die Gruppen Gender, People of Color, LGBTIQ+ und Menschen mit Beeinträchtigungen so abzubilden, wie es ihrem Anteil an der Bevölkerung entspricht."

Die afrodeutsche Schauspielerin Denise M'Baye setzt sich schon seit Langem für mehr Vielfalt im deutschen Film ein. Gegenüber der DW sagt sie, sie freue sich, dass die Branche nun „in eine gute Richtung" tendiere. Und sie ist überzeugt, dass Geschichten mit mehr Vielfalt und Komplexität „für jeden ein Gewinn" seien, „nicht nur für diejenigen, die entweder gar nicht oder nur dem Klischee entsprechend stattfinden." […]

Doch die wichtigsten Entscheidungen in Sachen Film werden nicht vor, sondern hinter der Kamera gefällt – angefangen beim Drehbuch über die Regie bis hin zur Produktion. Auch hier, bei den Entscheider-Positionen hinter der Kamera, will sich die UFA laut ihrer Sprecherin verändern. Denn „mehr Diversität hinter der Kamera ist eine Voraussetzung für mehr Diversität vor der Kamera". UFA-Chef Nico Hoffman ergänzt, es gehe um „Strukturen, die Talent fernhalten. Diese Strukturen aufzubrechen, das ist unser Thema."

Und diese Strukturen sind lange gewachsen und reichlich starr in Deutschland. […] Die Vielfalt, die in vielen westlichen Ländern wie Skandinavien oder Großbritannien schon lange im Arbeitsalltag gelebt wird, ist in Deutschland noch lange nicht erreicht. Dabei „sollten wir die Chance nutzen, unterschiedliche Lebensrealitäten zu Wort kommen zu lassen", so Denise M'Baye.

In Sachen Vielfalt scheint in Deutschland erst so richtig Bewegung in die Branche gekommen zu sein, seit der wirtschaftliche Druck auf die Branche wächst. Denn in den vergangenen Jahren pochen sowohl Filmfördereinrichtungen als auch internationale Filmpreise wie die Oscars und selbst alteingesessene europäische Filmfestivals wie die Berlinale immer deutlicher auf Diversität.

Laut Denise M'Baye liegt trotz der positiven Entwicklungen noch vieles im Argen: „Allein die Tatsache, dass mein Herz vor Freude hüpft, wenn mir eine Rolle angeboten wird, die nicht klischeebesetzt ist, ist ein deutliches Signal für diesen traurigen Umstand."

Diversität ist das Zauberwort der Stunde, doch sie besteht aus weit mehr als aus Quoten. Die Plots der erzählten Geschichten müssen diese Vielfalt auch inhaltlich widerspiegeln. Mehr Frauenrollen sind nicht gleich bessere Frauenrollen, und genauso brächte es Menschen mit Migrationshintergrund so gut wie nichts, wenn sie weiterhin auf Klischees reduziert würden – nur halt in größerer Zahl. Ob die Selbstverpflichtungen innerhalb der Filmbranche zu einem echten Paradigmenwechsel führen werden oder lediglich Makulatur sind, wird sich erst in den nächsten Jahren zeigen.

Klausurteil A

Pamela Druckerman

Parlez-Vous Anglais? Yes, of Course.

The hundreds of thousands of Americans descending on Paris during this year’s tourist season

are in for a shock: The city’s waiters, bakers and taxi drivers – and practically anyone else

they encounter – will mostly speak to them in eager, serviceable and occasionally even

near-perfect English.

5 It’s not just France. In recent years the number of Europeans who speak English – and speak

it well – has soared. The EF English Proficiency Index, whose online test rates adults around

the world, has found annual gains since it began in 2011. Of the 27 countries it ranks as highly

or very highly proficient, 22 are in Europe. The French are still among Europe’s worst English

speakers, but they are desperate to improve.

10 English has been Europe’s lingua franca since World War II, of course. But younger people

in particular, from Stockholm to Slovenia, increasingly speak a nuanced English that can rival

native speech. And it’s only getting better: About 80 percent of primary school students on

the Continent study it (up from about 60 percent in 2004), and 94 percent of high school

students take English, far more than all other foreign languages combined.

15 Europeans have long watched English-language TV shows and movies, but in bigger countries

like Germany and France these were usually dubbed. Now, they all binge-watch Netflix in

subtitled English, a virtual English-immersion course. […]

Never mind Brexit; earlier this year the Netherlands opened an all-English commercial court.

Gone, it seems, are the regional conferences conducted in “Globish” – the stilted, simplified

20 version of English that used to be the norm. At the Paris co-working space where I rent a desk,

my 20-something neighbors – a Colombian, a German, an Italian and a Frenchman – converse

in nearly flawless English, a scene replicated in Copenhagen, Berlin and many other cities.

All this sounds like good news for native English speakers, but it may also be a threat. […]

Universities in the United States should watch out. It won’t be long before Americans realize

25 that top European schools offer a fast-growing number of bachelor’s and master’s degrees,

taught entirely in English, for a fraction of the price of many American schools, even if you

add on overseas airfare. (In 2009, there were about 55 English B.A.’s offered in Continental

Europe; by 2017, there were 2,900.) […]

America’s and Britain’s most elite schools still top the global rankings, but after that it’s

30 harder to justify the cost.

We’re a target. When the world speaks excellent English, English-speaking societies become

easier to decode and manipulate. Before the 2016 American elections, the Kremlin recruited

young Russians whose written English was so good that they mostly passed for Americans

on social media.

35 But good ideas can spread faster, too. Scientific papers have long been published mostly in

English; now social movements are Anglophone. This spring, a 16-year-old English-speaking

Swede inspired kids around the world to protest climate change. (From Lisbon to Istanbul,

their homemade signs were in English.)

Native English may cease to be the gold standard. Most people now learn English to

40 communicate with other nonnative speakers – and even many of their teachers aren’t native –

so they acquire few expressions and idioms. The linguist Jennifer Jenkins describes a

British TV interviewer asking a perplexed Italian opera singer whether his trip to England

is “going swimmingly.” She writes that, at European Union conferences, nonnatives who

can easily understand each other’s English switch on their translation headphones when

45 someone from Britain or Ireland takes the stage.

English will mutate. A recent Irish conference on “World Englishes” included sessions on

“Egyptian English as a new English variety” and “English in the linguistic landscape of

Kazakhstan.” The linguist Marianne Hundt of the University of Zurich says common errors

like “we need to discuss about this” or “I want some advices” could enter native speech.

50 Natives are losing their competitive edge. A few jobs still require perfect English, but in the

corporate world good English has become a basic requirement, not a personal selling point.

“You just have the same skill as other people – it’s like using Excel,” says Kate Bell, of the

EF English Proficiency Index.

Crucially, the ubiquity of English lulls us Anglophones into thinking that it’s O.K. to be

55 monolingual. It’s not. I’ve been at Amsterdam dinners where everyone is speaking brilliant

English, but the minute I leave the table they switch back to Dutch. If all we know is English,

we won’t know what the rest of the world is saying about us.

Annotations:

6 EF English Proficiency Index – index ranking countries based on their inhabitants’ results in an English language test

18 commercial court – a court that deals with international business disputes

20 co-working space – office space in which people working in different jobs can rent a desk

27 overseas airfare – here: price for a plane ticket from the USA to Europe

27 B.A. (Bachelor of Arts) – an academic degree

32–34 Kremlin – here: the Russian government; reference to the claim that the Russian government was involved in the manipulation of the 2016 US Presidential Election

36–37 16-year-old English-speaking Swede – reference to the environmental activist Greta Thunberg

43 to go swimmingly (informal) – to go very well

54 ubiquity – the fact that someone or something seems to be everywhere

Klausurteil A: Leseverstehen und Schreiben integriert

1. Describe how the worldwide spread of English has affected the English language itself and what this means for native speakers, according to the article. (Comprehension) [12 Punkte]

Klausurteil A

Pamela Druckerman

Parlez-Vous Anglais? Yes, of Course.

The hundreds of thousands of Americans descending on Paris during this year’s tourist season

are in for a shock: The city’s waiters, bakers and taxi drivers – and practically anyone else

they encounter – will mostly speak to them in eager, serviceable and occasionally even

near-perfect English.

5 It’s not just France. In recent years the number of Europeans who speak English – and speak

it well – has soared. The EF English Proficiency Index, whose online test rates adults around

the world, has found annual gains since it began in 2011. Of the 27 countries it ranks as highly

or very highly proficient, 22 are in Europe. The French are still among Europe’s worst English

speakers, but they are desperate to improve.

10 English has been Europe’s lingua franca since World War II, of course. But younger people

in particular, from Stockholm to Slovenia, increasingly speak a nuanced English that can rival

native speech. And it’s only getting better: About 80 percent of primary school students on

the Continent study it (up from about 60 percent in 2004), and 94 percent of high school

students take English, far more than all other foreign languages combined.

15 Europeans have long watched English-language TV shows and movies, but in bigger countries

like Germany and France these were usually dubbed. Now, they all binge-watch Netflix in

subtitled English, a virtual English-immersion course. […]

Never mind Brexit; earlier this year the Netherlands opened an all-English commercial court.

Gone, it seems, are the regional conferences conducted in “Globish” – the stilted, simplified

20 version of English that used to be the norm. At the Paris co-working space where I rent a desk,

my 20-something neighbors – a Colombian, a German, an Italian and a Frenchman – converse

in nearly flawless English, a scene replicated in Copenhagen, Berlin and many other cities.

All this sounds like good news for native English speakers, but it may also be a threat. […]

Universities in the United States should watch out. It won’t be long before Americans realize

25 that top European schools offer a fast-growing number of bachelor’s and master’s degrees,

taught entirely in English, for a fraction of the price of many American schools, even if you

add on overseas airfare. (In 2009, there were about 55 English B.A.’s offered in Continental

Europe; by 2017, there were 2,900.) […]

America’s and Britain’s most elite schools still top the global rankings, but after that it’s

30 harder to justify the cost.

We’re a target. When the world speaks excellent English, English-speaking societies become

easier to decode and manipulate. Before the 2016 American elections, the Kremlin recruited

young Russians whose written English was so good that they mostly passed for Americans

on social media.

35 But good ideas can spread faster, too. Scientific papers have long been published mostly in

English; now social movements are Anglophone. This spring, a 16-year-old English-speaking

Swede inspired kids around the world to protest climate change. (From Lisbon to Istanbul,

their homemade signs were in English.)

Native English may cease to be the gold standard. Most people now learn English to

40 communicate with other nonnative speakers – and even many of their teachers aren’t native –

so they acquire few expressions and idioms. The linguist Jennifer Jenkins describes a

British TV interviewer asking a perplexed Italian opera singer whether his trip to England

is “going swimmingly.” She writes that, at European Union conferences, nonnatives who

can easily understand each other’s English switch on their translation headphones when

45 someone from Britain or Ireland takes the stage.

English will mutate. A recent Irish conference on “World Englishes” included sessions on

“Egyptian English as a new English variety” and “English in the linguistic landscape of

Kazakhstan.” The linguist Marianne Hundt of the University of Zurich says common errors

like “we need to discuss about this” or “I want some advices” could enter native speech.

50 Natives are losing their competitive edge. A few jobs still require perfect English, but in the

corporate world good English has become a basic requirement, not a personal selling point.

“You just have the same skill as other people – it’s like using Excel,” says Kate Bell, of the

EF English Proficiency Index.

Crucially, the ubiquity of English lulls us Anglophones into thinking that it’s O.K. to be

55 monolingual. It’s not. I’ve been at Amsterdam dinners where everyone is speaking brilliant

English, but the minute I leave the table they switch back to Dutch. If all we know is English,

we won’t know what the rest of the world is saying about us.

Annotations:

6 EF English Proficiency Index – index ranking countries based on their inhabitants’ results in an English language test

18 commercial court – a court that deals with international business disputes

20 co-working space – office space in which people working in different jobs can rent a desk

27 overseas airfare – here: price for a plane ticket from the USA to Europe

27 B.A. (Bachelor of Arts) – an academic degree

32–34 Kremlin – here: the Russian government; reference to the claim that the Russian government was involved in the manipulation of the 2016 US Presidential Election

36–37 16-year-old English-speaking Swede – reference to the environmental activist Greta Thunberg

43 to go swimmingly (informal) – to go very well

54 ubiquity – the fact that someone or something seems to be everywhere

Klausurteil A: Leseverstehen und Schreiben integriert

2. Analyse the way in which the author conveys her opinion on how the English language has developed. Concentrate on her communicative strategies and her use of language. (Analysis) [16 Punkte]

Klausurteil A

Pamela Druckerman

Parlez-Vous Anglais? Yes, of Course.

The hundreds of thousands of Americans descending on Paris during this year’s tourist season

are in for a shock: The city’s waiters, bakers and taxi drivers – and practically anyone else

they encounter – will mostly speak to them in eager, serviceable and occasionally even

near-perfect English.

5 It’s not just France. In recent years the number of Europeans who speak English – and speak

it well – has soared. The EF English Proficiency Index, whose online test rates adults around

the world, has found annual gains since it began in 2011. Of the 27 countries it ranks as highly

or very highly proficient, 22 are in Europe. The French are still among Europe’s worst English

speakers, but they are desperate to improve.

10 English has been Europe’s lingua franca since World War II, of course. But younger people

in particular, from Stockholm to Slovenia, increasingly speak a nuanced English that can rival

native speech. And it’s only getting better: About 80 percent of primary school students on

the Continent study it (up from about 60 percent in 2004), and 94 percent of high school

students take English, far more than all other foreign languages combined.

15 Europeans have long watched English-language TV shows and movies, but in bigger countries

like Germany and France these were usually dubbed. Now, they all binge-watch Netflix in

subtitled English, a virtual English-immersion course. […]

Never mind Brexit; earlier this year the Netherlands opened an all-English commercial court.

Gone, it seems, are the regional conferences conducted in “Globish” – the stilted, simplified

20 version of English that used to be the norm. At the Paris co-working space where I rent a desk,

my 20-something neighbors – a Colombian, a German, an Italian and a Frenchman – converse

in nearly flawless English, a scene replicated in Copenhagen, Berlin and many other cities.

All this sounds like good news for native English speakers, but it may also be a threat. […]

Universities in the United States should watch out. It won’t be long before Americans realize

25 that top European schools offer a fast-growing number of bachelor’s and master’s degrees,

taught entirely in English, for a fraction of the price of many American schools, even if you

add on overseas airfare. (In 2009, there were about 55 English B.A.’s offered in Continental

Europe; by 2017, there were 2,900.) […]

America’s and Britain’s most elite schools still top the global rankings, but after that it’s

30 harder to justify the cost.

We’re a target. When the world speaks excellent English, English-speaking societies become

easier to decode and manipulate. Before the 2016 American elections, the Kremlin recruited

young Russians whose written English was so good that they mostly passed for Americans

on social media.

35 But good ideas can spread faster, too. Scientific papers have long been published mostly in

English; now social movements are Anglophone. This spring, a 16-year-old English-speaking

Swede inspired kids around the world to protest climate change. (From Lisbon to Istanbul,

their homemade signs were in English.)

Native English may cease to be the gold standard. Most people now learn English to

40 communicate with other nonnative speakers – and even many of their teachers aren’t native –

so they acquire few expressions and idioms. The linguist Jennifer Jenkins describes a

British TV interviewer asking a perplexed Italian opera singer whether his trip to England

is “going swimmingly.” She writes that, at European Union conferences, nonnatives who

can easily understand each other’s English switch on their translation headphones when

45 someone from Britain or Ireland takes the stage.

English will mutate. A recent Irish conference on “World Englishes” included sessions on

“Egyptian English as a new English variety” and “English in the linguistic landscape of

Kazakhstan.” The linguist Marianne Hundt of the University of Zurich says common errors

like “we need to discuss about this” or “I want some advices” could enter native speech.

50 Natives are losing their competitive edge. A few jobs still require perfect English, but in the

corporate world good English has become a basic requirement, not a personal selling point.

“You just have the same skill as other people – it’s like using Excel,” says Kate Bell, of the

EF English Proficiency Index.

Crucially, the ubiquity of English lulls us Anglophones into thinking that it’s O.K. to be

55 monolingual. It’s not. I’ve been at Amsterdam dinners where everyone is speaking brilliant

English, but the minute I leave the table they switch back to Dutch. If all we know is English,

we won’t know what the rest of the world is saying about us.

Annotations:

6 EF English Proficiency Index – index ranking countries based on their inhabitants’ results in an English language test

18 commercial court – a court that deals with international business disputes

20 co-working space – office space in which people working in different jobs can rent a desk

27 overseas airfare – here: price for a plane ticket from the USA to Europe

27 B.A. (Bachelor of Arts) – an academic degree

32–34 Kremlin – here: the Russian government; reference to the claim that the Russian government was involved in the manipulation of the 2016 US Presidential Election

36–37 16-year-old English-speaking Swede – reference to the environmental activist Greta Thunberg

43 to go swimmingly (informal) – to go very well

54 ubiquity – the fact that someone or something seems to be everywhere

Klausurteil A: Leseverstehen und Schreiben integriert

Select one of the two tasks below (3.1 or 3.2):

3.1 In her article, Pamela Druckerman argues that “[a] few jobs still require perfect English, but in the corporate world good English has become a basic requirement, not a personal selling point” (ll. 50 – 52). Comment on this statement in view of the key competences and skills that will be needed in the working world of the future. (Evaluation: comment) [14 Punkte]

Klausurteil A

Pamela Druckerman

Parlez-Vous Anglais? Yes, of Course.

The hundreds of thousands of Americans descending on Paris during this year’s tourist season

are in for a shock: The city’s waiters, bakers and taxi drivers – and practically anyone else

they encounter – will mostly speak to them in eager, serviceable and occasionally even

near-perfect English.

5 It’s not just France. In recent years the number of Europeans who speak English – and speak

it well – has soared. The EF English Proficiency Index, whose online test rates adults around

the world, has found annual gains since it began in 2011. Of the 27 countries it ranks as highly

or very highly proficient, 22 are in Europe. The French are still among Europe’s worst English

speakers, but they are desperate to improve.

10 English has been Europe’s lingua franca since World War II, of course. But younger people

in particular, from Stockholm to Slovenia, increasingly speak a nuanced English that can rival

native speech. And it’s only getting better: About 80 percent of primary school students on

the Continent study it (up from about 60 percent in 2004), and 94 percent of high school

students take English, far more than all other foreign languages combined.

15 Europeans have long watched English-language TV shows and movies, but in bigger countries

like Germany and France these were usually dubbed. Now, they all binge-watch Netflix in

subtitled English, a virtual English-immersion course. […]

Never mind Brexit; earlier this year the Netherlands opened an all-English commercial court.

Gone, it seems, are the regional conferences conducted in “Globish” – the stilted, simplified

20 version of English that used to be the norm. At the Paris co-working space where I rent a desk,

my 20-something neighbors – a Colombian, a German, an Italian and a Frenchman – converse

in nearly flawless English, a scene replicated in Copenhagen, Berlin and many other cities.

All this sounds like good news for native English speakers, but it may also be a threat. […]

Universities in the United States should watch out. It won’t be long before Americans realize

25 that top European schools offer a fast-growing number of bachelor’s and master’s degrees,

taught entirely in English, for a fraction of the price of many American schools, even if you

add on overseas airfare. (In 2009, there were about 55 English B.A.’s offered in Continental

Europe; by 2017, there were 2,900.) […]

America’s and Britain’s most elite schools still top the global rankings, but after that it’s

30 harder to justify the cost.

We’re a target. When the world speaks excellent English, English-speaking societies become

easier to decode and manipulate. Before the 2016 American elections, the Kremlin recruited

young Russians whose written English was so good that they mostly passed for Americans

on social media.

35 But good ideas can spread faster, too. Scientific papers have long been published mostly in

English; now social movements are Anglophone. This spring, a 16-year-old English-speaking

Swede inspired kids around the world to protest climate change. (From Lisbon to Istanbul,

their homemade signs were in English.)

Native English may cease to be the gold standard. Most people now learn English to

40 communicate with other nonnative speakers – and even many of their teachers aren’t native –

so they acquire few expressions and idioms. The linguist Jennifer Jenkins describes a

British TV interviewer asking a perplexed Italian opera singer whether his trip to England

is “going swimmingly.” She writes that, at European Union conferences, nonnatives who

can easily understand each other’s English switch on their translation headphones when

45 someone from Britain or Ireland takes the stage.

English will mutate. A recent Irish conference on “World Englishes” included sessions on

“Egyptian English as a new English variety” and “English in the linguistic landscape of

Kazakhstan.” The linguist Marianne Hundt of the University of Zurich says common errors

like “we need to discuss about this” or “I want some advices” could enter native speech.

50 Natives are losing their competitive edge. A few jobs still require perfect English, but in the

corporate world good English has become a basic requirement, not a personal selling point.

“You just have the same skill as other people – it’s like using Excel,” says Kate Bell, of the

EF English Proficiency Index.

Crucially, the ubiquity of English lulls us Anglophones into thinking that it’s O.K. to be

55 monolingual. It’s not. I’ve been at Amsterdam dinners where everyone is speaking brilliant

English, but the minute I leave the table they switch back to Dutch. If all we know is English,

we won’t know what the rest of the world is saying about us.

Annotations:

6 EF English Proficiency Index – index ranking countries based on their inhabitants’ results in an English language test

18 commercial court – a court that deals with international business disputes

20 co-working space – office space in which people working in different jobs can rent a desk

27 overseas airfare – here: price for a plane ticket from the USA to Europe

27 B.A. (Bachelor of Arts) – an academic degree

32–34 Kremlin – here: the Russian government; reference to the claim that the Russian government was involved in the manipulation of the 2016 US Presidential Election

36–37 16-year-old English-speaking Swede – reference to the environmental activist Greta Thunberg

43 to go swimmingly (informal) – to go very well

54 ubiquity – the fact that someone or something seems to be everywhere

Klausurteil A: Leseverstehen und Schreiben integriert

Select one of the two tasks below (3.1 or 3.2):

3.2 Around the world, the cultural impact of the English language may be regarded either as a threat or as an enrichment. Your English class is holding a debate on this issue. Write a speech script for your contribution to the debate in which you present your own position. (Evaluation: re-creation of text) [14 Punkte]

Klausurteil A

Pamela Druckerman

Parlez-Vous Anglais? Yes, of Course.

The hundreds of thousands of Americans descending on Paris during this year’s tourist season

are in for a shock: The city’s waiters, bakers and taxi drivers – and practically anyone else

they encounter – will mostly speak to them in eager, serviceable and occasionally even

near-perfect English.

5 It’s not just France. In recent years the number of Europeans who speak English – and speak

it well – has soared. The EF English Proficiency Index, whose online test rates adults around

the world, has found annual gains since it began in 2011. Of the 27 countries it ranks as highly

or very highly proficient, 22 are in Europe. The French are still among Europe’s worst English

speakers, but they are desperate to improve.

10 English has been Europe’s lingua franca since World War II, of course. But younger people

in particular, from Stockholm to Slovenia, increasingly speak a nuanced English that can rival

native speech. And it’s only getting better: About 80 percent of primary school students on

the Continent study it (up from about 60 percent in 2004), and 94 percent of high school

students take English, far more than all other foreign languages combined.

15 Europeans have long watched English-language TV shows and movies, but in bigger countries

like Germany and France these were usually dubbed. Now, they all binge-watch Netflix in

subtitled English, a virtual English-immersion course. […]

Never mind Brexit; earlier this year the Netherlands opened an all-English commercial court.

Gone, it seems, are the regional conferences conducted in “Globish” – the stilted, simplified

20 version of English that used to be the norm. At the Paris co-working space where I rent a desk,

my 20-something neighbors – a Colombian, a German, an Italian and a Frenchman – converse

in nearly flawless English, a scene replicated in Copenhagen, Berlin and many other cities.

All this sounds like good news for native English speakers, but it may also be a threat. […]

Universities in the United States should watch out. It won’t be long before Americans realize

25 that top European schools offer a fast-growing number of bachelor’s and master’s degrees,

taught entirely in English, for a fraction of the price of many American schools, even if you

add on overseas airfare. (In 2009, there were about 55 English B.A.’s offered in Continental

Europe; by 2017, there were 2,900.) […]

America’s and Britain’s most elite schools still top the global rankings, but after that it’s

30 harder to justify the cost.

We’re a target. When the world speaks excellent English, English-speaking societies become

easier to decode and manipulate. Before the 2016 American elections, the Kremlin recruited

young Russians whose written English was so good that they mostly passed for Americans

on social media.

35 But good ideas can spread faster, too. Scientific papers have long been published mostly in

English; now social movements are Anglophone. This spring, a 16-year-old English-speaking

Swede inspired kids around the world to protest climate change. (From Lisbon to Istanbul,

their homemade signs were in English.)

Native English may cease to be the gold standard. Most people now learn English to

40 communicate with other nonnative speakers – and even many of their teachers aren’t native –

so they acquire few expressions and idioms. The linguist Jennifer Jenkins describes a

British TV interviewer asking a perplexed Italian opera singer whether his trip to England

is “going swimmingly.” She writes that, at European Union conferences, nonnatives who

can easily understand each other’s English switch on their translation headphones when

45 someone from Britain or Ireland takes the stage.

English will mutate. A recent Irish conference on “World Englishes” included sessions on

“Egyptian English as a new English variety” and “English in the linguistic landscape of

Kazakhstan.” The linguist Marianne Hundt of the University of Zurich says common errors

like “we need to discuss about this” or “I want some advices” could enter native speech.

50 Natives are losing their competitive edge. A few jobs still require perfect English, but in the

corporate world good English has become a basic requirement, not a personal selling point.

“You just have the same skill as other people – it’s like using Excel,” says Kate Bell, of the

EF English Proficiency Index.

Crucially, the ubiquity of English lulls us Anglophones into thinking that it’s O.K. to be

55 monolingual. It’s not. I’ve been at Amsterdam dinners where everyone is speaking brilliant

English, but the minute I leave the table they switch back to Dutch. If all we know is English,

we won’t know what the rest of the world is saying about us.

Annotations:

6 EF English Proficiency Index – index ranking countries based on their inhabitants’ results in an English language test

18 commercial court – a court that deals with international business disputes

20 co-working space – office space in which people working in different jobs can rent a desk

27 overseas airfare – here: price for a plane ticket from the USA to Europe

27 B.A. (Bachelor of Arts) – an academic degree

32–34 Kremlin – here: the Russian government; reference to the claim that the Russian government was involved in the manipulation of the 2016 US Presidential Election

36–37 16-year-old English-speaking Swede – reference to the environmental activist Greta Thunberg

43 to go swimmingly (informal) – to go very well

54 ubiquity – the fact that someone or something seems to be everywhere

Klausurteil B: Sprachmittlung isoliert

4.

You are currently an intern at the organisation Multilingual Europe. For its website feature Growing up Bilingual, you have been asked to present the situation of children in Germany who grow up with more than one language.

Drawing on Gabriele Voßkühler's text, write an online article outlining why children should learn their language of origin and how it can be promoted at school. (Mediation) (18 Punkte)

Ausgangstext (Gabriele Voßkühler: Nicht mehr nur Deutschstunde)

1 Obwohl multikulturelle Klassen in Deutschland längst die Regel sind, ist der professionelle

2 Umgang mit der mehrsprachigen Realität an unseren Schulen noch immer Wunschdenken.

3 Laut der Hochrechnung des Mikrozensus hatte 2019 rund ein Drittel der Schülerinnen und

4 Schüler an allgemeinbildenden und beruflichen Schulen in Deutschland einen Migrations-

5 hintergrund. Eine Kleine Anfrage der FDP ergab, dass 2019 rund ein Fünftel der Kitakinder

6 zu Hause vorrangig eine andere Sprache als Deutsch spricht. Gerade, wenn Schülerinnen und

7 Schüler in der Familie nicht Englisch oder Französisch, sondern Türkisch, Arabisch oder

8 Polnisch sprechen, wird das Potenzial mehrsprachig aufwachsender Kinder jedoch noch immer

9 unterschätzt. Dass Lernende an ihrer Schule oder im unmittelbaren Wohnumfeld herkunfts-

10 sprachlichen Unterricht erhalten, ist öfter Ausnahme als Regel. […]

11 Dabei ist der herkunftssprachliche Unterricht für die Kinder und Jugendlichen enorm wichtig,

12 wie Anna Mróz, Sprachwissenschaftlerin und Fremdsprachendidaktikerin an der Universität

13 Greifswald, erklärt. „Durch ihre Herkunftssprache bekommen Kinder den Schlüssel zur eigenen

14 Identität“, sagt Mróz, die im Rahmen verschiedener Projekte mehrsprachige Familien berät.

15 Entgegen der landläufigen Meinung überfordere Mehrsprachigkeit Kinder nicht.

16 „Das kindliche Gehirn ist von Geburt an, mindestens aber bis zum Ende der Kita-Zeit, un-

17 glaublich plastisch“, sagt die Linguistin. Wenn Kinder zwei Worte für einen Gegenstand

18 lernen, dann bedeute das einen großen kognitiven Entwicklungsschritt. „Auf diese Weise

19 werden Sprachkompetenzen, Sprachbewusstsein und Sprachsensibilität besonders gefördert.“

20 Allerdings hängt die Entwicklung von mehrsprachigen Kindern immer auch von der Qualität

21 und der Quantität des Sprachinputs ab. Die Sprachwissenschaftlerin hat bei ihrer Arbeit die

22 Erfahrung gemacht, dass gerade Eltern, die mit ihren Kindern nicht Englisch oder Französisch

23 sprechen, in Beratungsstellen häufig davon abgeraten wird, zu Hause in ihrer Herkunfts-

24 sprache zu kommunizieren.

25 Mit schwerwiegenden Konsequenzen für die Sprachentwicklung der Kinder: „Es gibt viele

26 Forschungsergebnisse, die belegen, dass je besser die Herkunftssprache entwickelt worden

27 ist, desto schneller und effizienter danach auch die Umfeldsprache, also das Deutsche, er-

28 worben werden kann“, so Mróz. Herkunftssprachlicher Unterricht an den Schulen könne den

29 Kontakt, den mehrsprachige Kinder zu ihren Herkunftssprachen haben, deutlich verbessern,

30 erklärt Mróz.

31 In vielen Bundesländern hat sich diese Erkenntnis mittlerweile durchgesetzt. Laut einer

32 Recherche des Mediendienstes Integration können Kinder und Jugendliche mittlerweile in

33 zwölf Bundesländern herkunftssprachlichen Unterricht besuchen. Vier Länder stellen sich

34 gegen den Trend: In Bayern und Baden-Württemberg wird der Unterricht nur an Konsulaten

35 angeboten. In Sachsen-Anhalt und Thüringen gibt es gar keinen herkunftssprachlichen Unter-

36 richt.

37 Gleichzeitig bauen einige Bundesländer die staatlichen Angebote weiter aus, mit eigenen

38 Unterrichtsmaterialien, Lehrplänen und Lehrkräften. In der Regel können Schülerinnen und

39 Schüler herkunftssprachlichen Unterricht hier als freiwilligen zusätzlichen Unterricht an der

40 Grundschule wählen. Teilweise besteht aber auch die Möglichkeit, Herkunftssprachen als

41 zweite oder dritte Fremdsprache zu wählen – mit zusätzlichen Sprachprüfungen in der neunten

42 oder zehnten Klasse oder auch im Rahmen des Abiturs.

43 Im bevölkerungsreichsten Bundesland Nordrhein-Westfalen hat staatlich organisierter her-

44 kunftssprachlicher Unterricht eine lange Tradition. Im Rahmen des HSU lernen hier im Moment

45 etwa 100.000 Kinder 23 verschiedene Sprachen. Das habe auch mit der langen Einwanderungs-

46 geschichte des Bundeslandes zu tun, findet Thorsten Klute. Der ehemalige Staatssekretär im

47 nordrhein-westfälischen Ministerium für Arbeit, Integration und Soziales ist heute Vorstands-

48 vorsitzender der AWO Ostwestfalen-Lippe.

49 Wenn es um den Ausbau des herkunftssprachlichen Unterrichts geht, plädiert Klute für Geduld:

50 „Man wird es in keinem Bundesland hinbekommen, herkunftssprachlichen Unterricht von

51 heute auf morgen einzuführen.“ Wichtig ist ihm, dass es bei staatlichen Sprachangeboten

52 nicht nur um jedes einzelne Kind, sondern um die Gesellschaft als Ganzes geht: „Wir müssen

53 auch politisch erkennen, dass Herkunftssprachen, wenn sie staatlich gefördert werden, kein

54 Klotz am Bein sind, sondern ein gesellschaftlicher Schatz, den man pflegen muss.“

Anmerkungen:

Mikrozensus: jährlich von der Bundesrepublik durchgeführte Erhebung über den Bevölkerungsstand zur Gewinnung von Daten über die wirtschaftliche und soziale Lage in Deutschland

Kleine Anfrage: Fragestellung eines Mitglieds eines Parlaments an die Exekutive als Instrument der Kontrolle

Mediendienst Integration: wissenschaftliche Informationsplattform für Medienschaffende vor allem zu den Themen Migration, Integration und Asyl

HSU: herkunftssprachlicher Unterricht

AWO (Arbeiterwohlfahrt): gemeinnütziger deutscher Verband zur Unterstützung von sozial benachteiligten Personen