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Learning new languages has a high relevance in today’s society with a globalized economy and the freedom to move abroad for work, study or other reasons. In this context new methods to teach and learn languages with the help of modern technology are becoming more relevant besides traditional language classes.
This work presents a new approach to combine a traditional language class with a modern computer-based approach for teaching. As a concrete example a web application to help teach and learn Latin was developed.
Das Forschungs- und Lehrkorpus Gesprochenes Deutsch (FOLK) ist mit seinem Design bislang vornehmlich auf Nutzergruppen aus der sprachwissenschaftlichen Forschung ausgerichtet, prinzipiell aber auch hervorragend dafür geeignet, für die Nutzung im handlungsorientierten DaF- (und eventuell auch DaZ-)Unterricht fruchtbar gemacht zu werden. Lehrende und Lernende des Deutschen als Fremd- oder Zweitsprache bilden eine gesellschaftlich zunehmend relevante Zielgruppe und auch einen beträchtlichen Anteil der registrierten NutzerInnen des Korpus. Im vorliegenden Beitrag soll daher anhand eines exemplarischen Annotationsprojekts gezeigt werden, inwiefern die besonderen Ressourcen und Potentiale von FOLK für den DaF-Unterricht und dort speziell für den Aspekt des authentischen, kompetenten sprachlichen Handelns in Interaktion sinnvoll aufbereitet und schrittweise zugänglicher gemacht werden können.
In literate societies linguistic competence includes speaking as well as writing. Talking and writing are rather different activities, therefore one should expect that in foreign language teaching (and especially in german-as-foreign-language teaching) both parts are included in equal proportions. However, the practise of teaching shows that written language is dominant and spoken language lives a shadow existence (section 1). In the following I will give five reasons as to why spoken language stands in the background and why it is such a bulky and clumsy subject (section 2). After which I will characterise two points of view one can take in regards to the magnitude of the differences between spoken and written language (section 3) and I will describe some of the central differences (section 4). Finally, 1 will formulate some consequences of this study for foreign language teaching, and I will argue that the difficulties connected with spoken language should be confronted, as in my opinion spoken language is an indispensable part of foreign language teaching (section 5).
Drill statt Dialog?
(1989)
In meinem Beitrag benenne ich fünf Gründe, warum die gesprochene Sprache im DaF-Unterricht, aber auch generell in der Sprachwissenschaft im Hintergrund steht und ein sperriger, schwer zu handhabender Gegenstand ist (Abschnitt 2). Sodann charakterisiere ich zwei unterschiedliche Positionen zum Ausmaß der Unterschiede zwischen gesprochener und geschriebener Sprache und beschreibe einige zentrale Unterschiede (Abschnitt 3). Abschließend formuliere ich einige Konsequenzen, die sich hieraus für den Fremdsprachen- und DaF-Unterricht ergeben, und plädiere dafür, sich die Schwierigkeiten, die mit einer Berücksichtigung der gesprochenen Sprache verbunden sind, bewusst zu machen und sich ihnen zu stellen, denn gesprochene Sprache ist meines Erachtens ein unverzichtbarer Bestandteil des fremdsprachlichen Unterrichts (Abschnitt 4).
Grußwort/Welcome address
(2018)
“To cleanse and at the same time enrich your mother tongue is the task of the brightest people.”
With this quote Goethe, the famous German poet, seemed to have described the work of EFNIL today. But is our task really that easy? Do we “cleanse” our language by deleting superfluous elements? Do we not lose the rich abundance of a language in so doing? Or is Goethe asking for other languages to be prevented from influencing his mother tongue? Would this even be feasible in a globalised world?
Rudi Carrell, a famous entertainer on German TV, once said:
“When I came to Germany I only spoke English. But the German language contains so many English words nowadays that I am now fluent in German!”
His opinion is probably shared by many people learning German.
My daily job is to support around 100,000 schools abroad that offer German as a foreign language. We ask ourselves daily: which German language should we be offering young people today? The classical German of literature? Or practical German which will enable young people to join the workforce of many German companies worldwide? And most of all: how do we motivate young people to learn German? Or any other foreign language?
Yes, English, French, German, Spanish – these languages are in competition in many schools. But the most important fact is: the benefit lies in learning a foreign language, no matter which. Because by learning a foreign language we start to understand foreign cultures and other people. And THAT is what matters.