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"Based on the selected proceedings from an international conference Concept of progression in foreign language teaching and learning, held in Dublin in February 2004"--Cover.
Zum sechzigsten Geburtstag von Hans Barkowski wird mit dieser Festschrift ein Mensch und Forscher geehrt, dessen gesamtes Wirken einerseits durch die wissenschaftliche Erforschung von und Auseinandersetzung mit vielen Aspekten von 'Sprache/n', 'Kulture/n', 'Unterricht' und ihrem Zusammenspiel geprägt ist, dessen konkretes Bestreben es andererseits ist, diese Bausteine mit Hilfe neuer Baupläne so zusammenzusetzen, dass daraus in der Praxis etwas Besseres als bisher für das heutige Babylon entstehen kann. Die Beiträge dieses Bandes zeigen und diskutieren aus Sicht der Fächer 'Deutsch als Fremd- und Zweitsprache', 'Linguistik'' 'Pädagogik' und 'Ethnologie' die Bedeutsamkeit, aber auch das Ineinandergreifen von 'Sprache/n', 'Kultur/en' und 'Unterricht' in einer mehrsprachigen und multikulturellen Welt.
Traditions and Transitions: Curricula for German Studies is a collection of essays by Canadian and international scholars on the topic of why and how the curriculum for post-secondary German studies should evolve. Its twenty chapters, written by international experts in the field of German as a foreign or second language, explore new perspectives on and orientations in the curriculum. In light of shifts in the linguistic and intercultural needs of today’s global citizens, these scholars in German studies question the foundations and motivations of common curriculum goals, traditional program content, standard syllabus design, and long-standing classroom practice. Several chapters draw on a...
Büchereien und Bibliotheken sind für die Sprachvermittlung wichtig, denn sie nehmen als öffentliche Institutionen eine besondere Rolle als Bildungs- und Freizeiteinrichtung ein. Sie bilden einen Raum, in dem Öffentliches und Privates zusammentreffen, eine Schnittstelle zwischen Unterhaltung und Lehre. Untersuchungsanliegen der Arbeit waren demnach Fragen nach dem Angebot für LeserInnen mit anderen Erstsprachen als Deutsch in den Städtischen Büchereien und der Motivation bzw. dem Konzept, das dahinter steht. Darüber hinaus wurde auf Basis der Ergebnisse der Spracherwerbsforschung hinterfragt, ob das Angebot in der L1 (Erstsprache) auch den Erwerb der L2 (Deutsch) fördert und sich ein...
Elementary and middle schools for children of most US military personnel provide an exceptional curricular component: A subject called Host Nation Studies is integrated in the daily schedule, teaching American children the culture and language of their current host country. The subject is unique for its early implementation as soon as 1946 when the fi rst US schools opened in Germany. And still today, native teachers provide cultural and intercultural opportunities to US elementary students all over the world. This dissertation focuses on the subject's conception and organization and the intercultural endeavours of US schools in Germany in two ways: First, historical research based on bibliographic resources regarding the school's history looks at the development of the program 1946 to 1970. A second perspective is given by a questionnaire survey, which asks Host Nation and American teachers about the current language and culture program within US schools in Germany --
This series of HANDBOOKS OF LINGUISTICS AND COMMUNICATION SCIENCE is designed to illuminate a field which not only includes general linguistics and the study of linguistics as applied to specific languages, but also covers those more recent areas which have developed from the increasing body of research into the manifold forms of communicative action and interaction. For classic linguistics there appears to be a need for a review of the state of the art which will provide a reference base for the rapid advances in research undertaken from a variety of theoretical standpoints, while in the more recent branches of communication science the handbooks will give researchers both an overview and o...
The study of English as a Lingua Franca (ELF) has grown considerably in the last decades, and a wide number of issues related to this field have been addressed through a variety of lenses. These range from the changes occurring in spoken English, to the much-debated notion of the native-speaker; from the threat that English represents for minority languages, to the metadiscourse(s) contributing to the myth of English as a language equally accessible to speakers of all nationalities. Adopting different perspectives and positions, the articles in this special issue of The Interpreter and Translator Trainer all demonstrate that ELF poses many challenges to the teaching of translation and that, ...
By drawing on multiple examples of real-world language learning situations, this book explores the subjective aspects of the language learning experience.
These two parallel studies in Hamburg and London aim to provide an insight into the different ways in which young people with and without a migrant background live their everyday lives together. The book demonstrates how friendships, tensions, and sometimes adversities are negotiated. It shows how young people construct landscapes of risk and safety and how relations of ethnicity, class, and gender are lived differently in different socio-spatial contexts. In some situations young people develop enjoyable ways of living with differences, in others they live with tensions and conflicts. These may be experienced through notions of ethnicity, but sometimes through feelings of belonging to places and/or specific youth cultures which transcend ethnic differences more often than class differences.