Foreign language research

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The term foreign language research encompasses all foreign language- related research activities. Her main area of ​​research is the acquisition and use of foreign or second languages in natural as well as instruction-controlled learning situations. The structure of languages ​​and linguistic communication as well as that of the respective speaker and cultural community (s) play a role here.

background

In addition to the established scientific areas of foreign language didactics and foreign language teaching and learning research (often shortened to “language teaching research”), the term “foreign language research” was introduced in the late 1980s when the German Society for Foreign Language Research (DGFF) was founded, “with the intention to name a research area that is not related to a specific institutionalized subject. Both language teaching researchers, second language acquisition researchers and foreign language didactics can therefore work together under the 'organizational umbrella' of foreign language research (Timm and Vollmer 1993). ”However, the term was used - unsystematically - before that.

"Foreign language research" as a generic term

The German Society for Foreign Language Research lists the following topics in foreign language research on its website:

Precisely these are the subject areas of foreign language didactics and foreign language teaching and learning research , which as such - historically established - are also anchored in universities through corresponding professorships. In this sense, the term “foreign language research” can be seen as a generic term for these disciplines.

Footnotes

  1. ↑ See Johannes-Peter Timm, Helmut J. Vollmer: Fremdsprachforschung: To the conception and perspectives of a scientific area. In: Journal for Foreign Language Research , Vol. 4 (1993), Issue 1, p. 10.
  2. ^ Willis J. Edmondson , Juliane House : Introduction to Language Teaching Research. Tübingen, Basel: Francke, 4th, revised. Edition 2011, p. 15.
  3. ↑ This is proven by a look at the list of publications on foreign language research listed by Google books .
  4. ↑ Website of the German Society for Foreign Language Research ( Memento of the original from October 14, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed on April 19, 2011. - The DGFF publishes publications on this research area in its two academic publication organs, the Journal for Foreign Language Research and the book series Contributions to Foreign Language Research . @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.dgff.de
  5. ↑ See Karl-Richard Bausch, Herbert Christ and Hans-Jürgen Krumm (eds.): Handbuch Fremdsprachunterricht . 5th edition 2007, p. 1.
  6. ↑ See for more details Timm and Vollmer: Fremdsprachforschung… , Section 4.2 (pp. 14–21).

literature

  • Karin Aguado: On the methodology in empirical foreign language research. Baltmannsweiler: Schneider Verlag Hohengehren, 2000. ISBN 978-3-89676-253-5
  • Sabine Doff, Torben Schmidt (ed.): Foreign language research today: Interdisciplinary impulses, methods and perspectives. Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 2007. ISBN 978-3-631-56712-8
  • Johannes-Peter Timm , Helmut J. Vollmer: Foreign language research: on the conception and perspective of a scientific area. In: Journal for Foreign Language Research , Vol. 4 (1993), Issue 1, pp. 1-47.
  • Johannes-Peter Timm , Helmut J. Vollmer (eds.): Controversies in foreign language research. Bochum: Brockmeyer, 1993. ISBN 3-8196-0148-1
  • Helmut J. Vollmer (Ed.): Synergy effects in foreign language research: empirical approaches, problems, results. Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 2007. ISBN 978-3-631-56193-5