A new volume on early language learning has appeared:
Fortschritte im frühen Fremdsprachenlernen: Ausgewählte Tagungsbeiträge Eichstätt 2011, ed. by Heiner Böttger and Norbert Schlüter. (German Amazon page)
On pp. 131-141 you will find my contribution „Basic Global English (BGE) as a Quick Way to Global Communicative Competence – Empirical Results from Primary School“.
A new article on LdL has just appeared in the journal Fachsprache. It focuses on expert-layperson communication, or knowledge transfer compentence, and was written by Bea Klüsener and me. Here’s the abstract.
At a conference of applied linguists a few days ago I presented LdL with the help of video clips from my own courses. The goal was to show that LdL is an effective and efficient method to provide students with competences in expert-expert communication and expert-layperson communication (in other words: knowledge transfer competence). Den Rest des Beitrags lesen »
On Jean-Pol Martin’s blog people have recently been discussing the question, „why is LdL not applied more frequently“. I’m happy to say that LdL has been spreading at my department at university. But I would like to add this. Someone who wants to use LdL must think systemically. He has to know what the life of his learners is like, he has to know the contraints by the educational system, and he has to be familiar with what other teachers do — maybe he need not require that his learners train all target competences of LdL if certain competences are already well trained elsewhere. I can concentrate on certain competences then and reflect on new or remaining problems.
If you can understand German, read the discussion on Jean-Pol Martin’s blog here (with my own comment also here).