Nomination for “Professor of the Year”

A very nice incident. I was nominated for the journal UNICUM-BERUF’s award “Professor of the Year”. If anybody likes to support this nomination, please do so under Professor des Jahres.

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Joachim Grzega

Farewell to Marion Schöner

Today is Marion Schöner’s last day at Eichstätt University. I would like to express my gratitude for her multi-faceted support over the past years. Since 2004 she has supported me in my research and teaching as a colleague, an assistant and as a friend. She has adopted and promoted Lernen durch Lehren as a didactic model, she has committed herself as a co-editor to my journals Onomasiology Online and Journal for EuroLinguistiX and she has helped me in the Basic Global English projects. She will now start her teacher traineeship at a German Gymnasium (high-school). Although she will try to continue assisting me in my projects, this new stage in her life also means a tough change in my life. I wish her all the best.

Joachim Grzega

Exchange with Wolfgang Butzkamm on BGE

This week I met with Wolfgang Butzkamm, Professor emeritus at the University of Aachen and supporter of “functional monolingualism” in foreign language teaching, i.e. the strictly defined use of learners’ native language to make foreign language teaching more efficient. I could talk to him about BGE and he gave me some valuable ideas that led to an additional appendix to my book “Basic Global English for Age Group 7 to 10: A Teacher Handbook with Materials for First-Year Learners” (available at http://www.basicglobalenglish.com).

Joachim Grzega