Gerhard Bach

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Gerhard Bach (born August 7, 1943 ), scientist, was Professor of Foreign Language Didactics at the University of Bremen until 2008 .

biography

Bach obtained his doctorate in 1971 in Marburg. phil. From 1971 to 1996 he was Professor of English with a focus on American Literature at the Heidelberg University of Education and from 1985 to 1986 he was also a visiting professor at West Virginia University in Morgantown (West Virginia) and from 1990 to 1993 visiting professor at Brigham Young University in Provo ( Utah ). In 1996, Bach was appointed professor for English foreign language didactics at Faculty 10 (Linguistics and Literature Studies) at the University of Bremen. There he founded and headed the Institute for Foreign Language Didactics and the Promotion of Multilingualism (INFORM). In 2008 he retired.

Bach is now working as a consultant for science projects at home and abroad. In particular, he advises the research activities of the international research network Langscape .

Research priorities

Bach's primary research interests are foreign language didactics with a focus on action-oriented methods and intercultural learning, as well as American literary studies with a focus on Jewish-American literature of the 20th century. Further research focuses: curriculum research, multiliteracy, bilingual teaching.

Works

  • Bach is co-editor of two scientific series on foreign language didactics and language teaching and learning research: Colloquium Foreign Language Teaching (KFU) and Multilingualism in Schools and Classes (MSU). Peter-Lang Verlag, Frankfurt / M.

Literary Studies / American Studies

  • Susan Glaspell and the Provincetown Players: The Beginnings of Modern American Drama and Theater. Lang, Frankfurt 1979
  • Saul Bellow at Seventy-Five. A Collection of Critical Essays. (Ed.). Narr, Tübingen 1991.
  • The Critical Response to Saul Bellow. (Ed.), Greenwood Press, Westport 1996
  • with Blaine Hall (ed.): Conversations with Grace Paley. University Press of Mississippi, 1997.
  • with Gloria Cronin (ed.): Small Planets: Saul Bellow and the Art of Short Fiction. Michigan State University Press, 1999.
  • with Sabine Broeck, Ulf Schulenberg (ed.): Americanization - Globalization - Education. C. Winter, Heidelberg 2003

Foreign language didactics

  • with Johannes-Peter Timm (ed.): Foreign language teaching in transition. Pedagogical University - Institute for Further Education, Heidelberg 1989. ISBN 3-9801530-2-9 .
  • with Johannes-Peter Timm (ed.): English lessons. Basics and methods of action-oriented teaching practice. (1st edition 1989). Tübingen: Francke / UTB. 4th, completely revised and exp. Edition 2009, 5th, updated edition 2013. ISBN 978-3-8252-4037-0 .
  • with Susanne Niemeier (ed.): Bilingual lessons. (1st edition 2000). Frankfurt: Peter Lang Verlag. 5th fully revised and expanded edition, 2010.
  • with Dagmar Abendroth-Timmer (ed.): Multilingual Europe. Narr, Tübingen 2001.
  • with Britta Viebrock (ed.): The acquisition of foreign languages: Perspectives - Concepts - Research program. Lang, Frankfurt / M. 2002.
  • with Stephan Breidbach, Dieter Wolff, (ed.): Bilingual subject teaching: Didactics, teacher / learner research and educational policy between theory and empirical knowledge. Lang, Frankfurt / M. 2002.

literature

  • Abendroth-Timmer, Dagmar; Elsner, Daniela; Lütge, Christiane; Viebrock, Britta (ed.): Action orientation in focus: impulses and perspectives for foreign language teaching in the 21st century . Peter Lang Verlag, Frankfurt 2009, ISBN 978-3-631-56978-8 .
  • Abendroth-Timmer, Dagmar; Viebrock, Britta, Wendt, Michael (eds.): Text, context and foreign language teaching. Festschrift for Gerhard Bach. Peter Lang Verlag, Frankfurt, 2003, ISBN 978-3-631-51250-0 .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Website of G. Bach (accessed April 27, 2011); Personal article in Finkenstaedt, Th. & Stoll, R. (Ed.): Third mirror of the Anglists. Biographical and bibliographical information from 546 professors, lecturers and post-doctoral candidates. Augsburg: University 1990, who is who? - The German Who's Who . Lübeck: Schmidt-Römhild, 45th edition 2006 and Kürschner's German Scholars Calendar . Munich: KG Saur, 21st edition 2007.

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personal data
SURNAME Bach, Gerhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German literary scholar (American studies) and foreign language didactic
DATE OF BIRTH August 7, 1943