English and foreign language teaching in the German Gymnasium
The paper offers a survey of the present system of teaching languages, focusing on English language, at German grammar schools (Gymnasien). In doing so, it addresses institutional structures, curriculum, teaching methods, the role of media, standards and assessment results, teacher education, and fu...
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Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia (RUDN University)
2017-09-01
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| Online Access: | https://rudn.tlcjournal.org/archive/1(3)/1(3)-05.pdf |
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| author | Engelbert Thaler |
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| description | The paper offers a survey of the present system of teaching languages, focusing on English language, at German grammar schools (Gymnasien). In doing so, it addresses institutional structures, curriculum, teaching methods, the role of media, standards and assessment results, teacher education, and future perspectives. The aim is to clarify what makes such schools successful in language teaching and, without encouraging imitation, as all education systems are different, identify the key success factors in institutional language learning in the secondary sector. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-22b2105ba5a54a4ca2613b4e1953464f2022-12-22T00:15:54ZengPeoples’ Friendship University of Russia (RUDN University)Training, Language and Culture2520-20732521-442X2017-09-0113728510.29366/2017tlc.1.3.5English and foreign language teaching in the German GymnasiumEngelbert Thaler0University of AugsburgThe paper offers a survey of the present system of teaching languages, focusing on English language, at German grammar schools (Gymnasien). In doing so, it addresses institutional structures, curriculum, teaching methods, the role of media, standards and assessment results, teacher education, and future perspectives. The aim is to clarify what makes such schools successful in language teaching and, without encouraging imitation, as all education systems are different, identify the key success factors in institutional language learning in the secondary sector.https://rudn.tlcjournal.org/archive/1(3)/1(3)-05.pdfgymnasiumgrammar schoolenglish languagelanguage teaching |
| spellingShingle | Engelbert Thaler English and foreign language teaching in the German Gymnasium Training, Language and Culture gymnasium grammar school english language language teaching |
| title | English and foreign language teaching in the German Gymnasium |
| title_full | English and foreign language teaching in the German Gymnasium |
| title_fullStr | English and foreign language teaching in the German Gymnasium |
| title_full_unstemmed | English and foreign language teaching in the German Gymnasium |
| title_short | English and foreign language teaching in the German Gymnasium |
| title_sort | english and foreign language teaching in the german gymnasium |
| topic | gymnasium grammar school english language language teaching |
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