Applied Linguistics for the Teaching of German



This course introduces principles and concepts in applied linguistics and a variety of approaches to language pedagogy to enhance the understanding of foreign language teaching, with an emphasis on teaching German. Topics include: second language acquisition, socio-linguistics and pragma-linguistics, phonetics, recent changes in usage in the German language, various assessment tools, and the introduction to The Common European Framework of Reference for Languages as a model for curriculum development.



Required Texts: Jörg Roche, Fremdsprachenerwerb Fremdsprachendidaktik, 2008 2nd Edition (Narr Francke Attempto Verlag, Tübingen), as well as handouts and prepared materials.