DGFF Kassel 2025 – Field Notes

Leaving Kassel, I carried less a set of answers than a sharpened sense of direction. Each keynote exposed a facet of what I see in my own classroom: fragile understandings, multilingual constellations, uncomfortable truths, lived experience, and the demand to connect language to the larger question of how we inhabit the world.

For me, CLILi — Content and Language Integrated Learning plus Identity — is not a side project, but a framework I coined to capture the specific intersection of language, identity, and art in my teaching. Until now I have only used it privately, but Kassel marks the first time I name it publicly. DGFF confirmed what CLILi asserts: multilingualism and identity are not distractions from learning. They are the condition of learning in 2025.