Frank Kostrzewa

Frank Kostrzewa (born July 8, 1960 in Gütersloh ) has been Professor of Linguistics and Language Didactics at the Karlsruhe University of Education since 2007 .

His areas of teaching include linguistics, German, English, Korean, didactics, and German as a foreign and second language.

Life and academic career

Kostrzewa studied English and pedagogy for teaching at upper secondary level at Bielefeld University . From 1990 to 1992 he was a research assistant in the teaching and research area “German as a Foreign Language” at Bielefeld University, where he was awarded a Dr. phil. received his doctorate. From 1993 to 1997 he was a visiting lecturer at Keimyung University and Kyungpook National University in Taegu , Korea. After his return from Korea in 1997, he went to the Wilnsdorf Gymnasium (North Rhine-Westphalia) as an English and pedagogy teacher . After a DAAD stay in Hungary, he worked from April 2001 to July 2003 as a research assistant in the German as a Foreign Language department at the Language Center of the University of Rostock and then until 2007 in a similar position at the University of Cologne. In 2007 he was offered a W 3 professorship for linguistics and language didactics at the Karlsruhe University of Education.

His research areas are contrastive linguistics , language comparison, language typology , word formation, lexicology and lexicography, phraseology , semantics , pragmatics , language history , psycholinguistics , language psychology , applied linguistics, German as a foreign language, intercultural communication .

Fonts (selection)

Kostrzewa has published numerous articles on various topics in specialist journals.

• Contrasting Linguistic Analysis of the Korean Language: Korean - German. Munich 2014.
• Foreign languages. Your structures and special features. Munich 2014.
• Famous mathematicians and their problems. Munich 2014.
• German as a Foreign Language in Korea - Social Conditions, Structural Language Comparisons and Employment Analysis. Munich 2009.
• Characteristics of contextual explanations of meaning that promote understanding and retention. Egelsbach / Koeln / New York 1992. German University Theses No. 510.
• Central subject areas for teaching with late resettled children and adolescents. Egelsbach / Koeln / New York 1992. German University Theses No. 554.
• Elements of descriptive and inferential statistics and their predecessors. Egelsbach / Koeln / New York 1993. German University Theses No. 696.
• The current advancement in the plant-environment debate of intelligence. Egelsbach / Frankfurt / Washington 1993. German University Theses No. 702.
• Ernest Hemingway's “Now I lay me” and “Soldier's Home” - analysis and didactic implementation. Egelsbach / Frankfurt / Washington 1993. German University Theses No. 734.
• Explanations of words through examples. Characteristics of contextual explanations of meaning that promote understanding and retention. Egelsbach / Frankfurt / Washington 1994. German University Theses No. 1039.
• German as a Foreign Language in Korea - Social Conditions, Structural Language Comparisons and Employment Analysis. Munich 2009.

Web links

• Frank Kostrzewa at the Karlsruhe University of Education