Journal article

Publication year: 2006

Pages: 35-68

Journal: Zeitschrift für Fremdsprachenforschung

Volume number: 17

Issue number: 1

Publisher: Schneider Verl. Hohengehren

Abstract: 

The paper analyses the current situation of learning and teaching English as a foreign language in comprehensive schools in Germany. Special attention is given to two critical issues: a) the time-honoured system of external differentiation, b) the growing interest in all-day schools and its consequences for the EFL learning and teaching process. It is shown that a number of pressing questions evolve out of these issues, and that research efforts will have to be stepped up considerably to assist schools across the country in implementing urgently necessary reforms. Finally, in order to re-ignite the smouldering scholarly debate on teaching English in difficult learning environments, an empirically and theoretically grounded long-term framework for instruction and learning is developed which takes into account the potentials of primary English, the impacts of puberty, and the challenges of afternoon teaching in all-day school contexts. (Verlag).

Harvard Citation style: Kurtz, J. (2006) Kernprobleme und Entwicklungsperspektiven des Englischunterrichts an integrierten Gesamtschulen, Zeitschrift für Fremdsprachenforschung, 17(1), pp. 35-68

APA Citation style: Kurtz, J. (2006). Kernprobleme und Entwicklungsperspektiven des Englischunterrichts an integrierten Gesamtschulen. Zeitschrift für Fremdsprachenforschung. 17(1), 35-68.