Zeitschrift für Hochschuldidaktik Nr. 1/1984
Foreign Language Learning at Universities
Seiten: 84 - 104
Beitrag in Deutsch
Ute Hietsch (Klagenfurt, Österreich)
Theoretische Vorstellungen
Überlegungen zu einem ganzheitlichen Konzept für Fremdsprachenlehren/ lernen für LehramtsstudentInnen
Summary
"The last to discover water" said Jerome S. Bruner, "is the fish who lives in it". We and our students immersed in the tradition of seeing the foreign language primarily as a formal system with little change in institutionalised language learning to experience the foreign language learning process as potentially creative. Perhaps we have made language learning more difficult than is necessary by focusing the attention on the formal system of language which learners do not know instead of encouraging them to work on from their language based contact with the world, which they bring with them unconsciously from their mother tongue. We have approached relearning from the view that a foreign language is a further chance for social interaction and thus by doing project work where students develop learning materials
- for themselves
- for students in the target culture bilingual materials.
We found it difficult to overcome the allpervasive "mistake-phobia" and found it helpful to work with the Humanities Curriculum Project discussion method, which allows for role change from "discipline" to researcher, from instructor to process-facilitator. It was thought we might contribute in this way to the process of negotiating meaning as to what language learning is about.
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