At this year's video competition, the jury was able to choose from many great submissions on the topic What does a normal school day look like in your life? The winners are:

1^st place: Tara Mackenzie and Maéva Koussouhon (German 2/3, Cégep de St-Laurent). Watch video!
2^d place: Mathilde Quirion and Sandrine Hétu (German 2/3, Cégep de St-Laurent)
3^d place: Flavie Monnier and Polina Jezova (German 2, Cégep de St-Laurent)
4^th place: Sebastian Gutierrez and Cédric Hamam (German 2/3, Cégep de St-Laurent)
5^th place: Aurélie Lachapelle and Léa Flamand (German 2/3, Cégep de St-Laurent)
6^th place: Anna Zakour and Jason Regoli (Collège Jean-de-Brebeuf)
7^th place: Raphaelle Sirieix and Clara Desgagné
8^th place: Alisa Jacobs and Rosi Peña Robles (German 2/3, Cégep de St-Laurent)

Winners received gift certificates ranging from $50-$125. Congratulations!

We are pleased with the arrival of our promotional items! Coffee cups with the new APAQ logo are now available. The promotional items will be awarded at future conferences and other APAQ events.

It is with great pleasure that we would like to present you the design of the new APAQ logo. It will adorn our website and conference programs in the future.

A total of 15 students from 2 Cégeps took part in our German competition this year. They could win book and cash prizes worth between $25 and $250.

Congratulations to the following winners:


1st place: Audrey Spaggiari (Read the winning text as PDF)
2nd place: Cassandra Chan
3rd place: Chloé Vallée
4th place: Svetlana Shalandiva
5th and 6th places: Gabriel Voix und Shanny Banh Vay
7th to 10th places: Émilie Tremblay, Carolanne Naud, Fanny Gauthier und Alexia Jaeggi

We would like to thank all teachers and students for their participation and wish the winners lots of fun with their prizes!

Andrea was born and raised in Germany. She developed a passion for languages and travel very early on, during her first student exchange in France (she was 13). She studied French and Spanish in Dresden, Nantes and Granada, to teach languages. After her master's degree, she took part in the language assistant program offered by the Pädagogischer Austauschdienst and the Quebec Ministry of Education, which allowed her to come to Quebec where she has lived since 2000. She is a German teacher and co-coordinator of the Languages department at Cégep de St-Laurent, as well as educational director of the German Schools of Montreal Center and South Shore.

Franzi Schreiber was born and raised in Germany. She studied to become a teacher (midle and high schools) with the subjects of Physical Education and French at the University of Kassel and then completed her traineeship in the Lower Rhine region. After successfully completing her Second State Examination, she emigrated to Canada in 2018. She has lived in Montréal since then and is currently a German teacher at the Collège Stanislas.

Neslihan Sriram-Uzundal comes from Germany. She studied German and English to become a teacher at the University of Tübingen and completed a Master of Arts in German Literature. In 2021, she moved to Canada to do a PhD in Education at Concordia University. She is interested in teaching and learning in a multicultural context. She also teaches German at the Saturday schools. Since November 2022 she has also been Secretary of the APAQ Board.

Inken Kaufmann was born and raised in Germany. She was enthusiastic about languages from an early age and studied at Kiel University. In order to improve her language skills and to get to know other countries, she has regularly traveled abroad. During an exchange year at the UdeM in Montreal, she was immediately impressed by the linguistic diversity and multiculturalism of the city. After successfully completing her master’s degree and a DaF certificate, she emigrated to Canada in 2010. She has since been working in language schools and as a German teacher for the Goethe Institut in Montreal and at Saturday German schools.

The annual conference at the Goethe-Institut Montreal began with a workshop led by Anna Ralston on learner engagement, followed by the minutes, financial report, and the future of the APAQ. A creative writing workshop in DaF concluded the afternoon. Members then had the opportunity to network during a "wine and cheese" event.

A big thank you to the Goethe-Institut Montreal, the Hueber publisher, and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs for their support.

The annual conference, held on September 23 and 24 in Montreal, focused on activism as a theme for learning and experience for both German learners and teachers. Through lectures, workshops, and discussions, participants addressed various topics such as climate activism, linguistic inclusion, the use of AI in the classroom, and sustainable development. The event concluded with the CATG/ACPA General Assembly.

The APAQ meeting on September 22, 2023, on Zoom focused on the election of the new committee, finances, and the German contests. Information on grant applications and the CATG conference was also shared before the session was closed.

On November 26th, our autumn conference took place in person at the Goethe-Institut in Montreal for the first time since the beginning of the pandemic. The program included three workshops and a joint dinner. The conference was initiated by Florian Nestmann (ZfA, Canada East) with a lecture on Instagram in school life and in the classroom, followed by a workshop by Marje Zschiesche-Stock (Cornelsen Verlag) entitled Analog-Digital-Hybrid: The Best of Three Worlds by discussing the types of teaching and their advantages and disadvantages. Finally, Vera Degtyarenko (Goethe-Institut Montreal) took up questions on a current social topic with her workshop Gender-Inclusive Language in DaF Lessons.

We would like to thank all our members for their active participation and thank the Netzwerk Deutsch and the Goethe-Institut for their support. We hope to see all members again at our next conference!

APAQ invites you to a get-together on Saturday, May 7, 2022 from 1.30 p.m. at the Goethe-Institut Montreal. The program includes snacks and a workshop. More information will follow shortly.

We look forward to finally seeing you again in person!

On November 20, 2021, APAQ invited its members to two exciting workshops: A workshop on freies Sprechen by Anna Pilaski (language didactics expert) and another one on creative lesson design by Marje Zschiesche-Stock (Goethe-Institut Toronto) and Claudia Böschel (freelance author and lecturer).

We would like to thank our members for the numerous and active participation!

Our virtual autumn conference took place on October 21st. The program included a joint lunch, a workshop on motivational activities for young people by Dr. Marion Grein (University of Mainz, head of the master's program DAF / DAZ) and a reading by Leonard Thoma (freelance author from Augsburg), who presented 2 short stories and their potential for DAF lessons.

We would like to thank all our members for their active participation and thank the Netzwerk Deutsch for their support. We hope to see all members again at our next conference!

Our virtual spring conference took place on April 24th. The program included a workshop on theater impulses by Prof. Dr. Michaela Sambanis (FU Berlin) and Maik Walter (VHS Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg, Berlin) and a workshop to promote language skills in online lessons by Elke Rühl (ZfA specialist advisor for German).

We thank all our members for their active participation and the Goethe-Institut for their support!