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1. Unvorgreifliche Gedanken, betreffend die Ausuebung und Verbesserung des Uebersetzungsunterrichts Englisch-Deutsch. (Modest Thoughts on the Use and Improvement of Training in Translation -- English to German).

Author

Haber, Bernd K.

Abstract

Surveys current practice in teaching translation and finds it faulty. An almost mathematical model of translation strategy is suggested for upper-level students of English who can use a monolingual dictionary. Two sample texts for testing the model are appended. (IFS/WGA)

Published
1978

2. Zielsprache, Lernzielsprache und Lernersprache im Englischunterricht. (Target Language, Learning-Goal Language, and Learner's Language in Teaching English).

Author

Heuer, Helmut

Abstract

Analyzes the difference between "ultimate-target language" (authentic English in all its varieties), "learner's language" (with its limitations), and "learning-goal language," this latter referring to differentiated instruction with graded "input" steps. Teaching suggestions are given. (IFS/WGA)

Published
1978

4. Ueber Sinnverstehen und spontane Sinngebung. Sprachpsychologische und sprachdidaktische Ueberlegungen zum Problem des Berstehens (On Grasping and Expressing Meaning. Psychological and Pedagogical Considerations in the Problems of Understanding).

Author

Butzkamm, Wolfgang

Abstract

Considers the need for meaningfulness in people's impressions of their experiences and discusses this need as it appears in various aspects of foreign language teaching. Discusses learners' failure to learn foreign vocabulary as taught monolingually and learners' resistance to correction. Explains the behaviorist psychology terms "set" and "attitude." (IFS/WGA)

Published
1979