Hans-Werner Hunziker

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Hans-Werner Hunziker

Hans-Werner Hunziker (born June 3, 1934 in St. Gallen ; † July 20, 2011 in Thalwil ) was a Swiss psychologist and developer of language learning programs.

Life

Hunziker's ancestors were farmers from the Swiss plateau and rope makers from Toggenburg . His father, Werner Hunziker, a customs officer by profession, was transferred to Zurich in 1939. In St. Georgen, a rural suburb of St. Gallen, Hans-Werner Hunziker attended primary school, a. a. with a teacher who beat students; so he was glad that he could leave this school and attend the canton school St. Gallen. In 1950 the family moved to Bern.

In 1953, Hunziker passed the Matura at the municipal high school Kirchenfeld in Bern. He began studying psychology at the University of Bern and took lectures and internships for training as a secondary language teacher. In the winter semester of 1954/55 he studied at the Sorbonne .

In 1956 he directed a musical for the Boy Scout Department. In the same year he received the diploma as a secondary teacher. In 1957 he took up a position as a secondary teacher in Herzogenbuchsee . A few months later he received a scholarship from Miami University , Ohio . There the scholarship was converted into half an assistant position. Hunziker now studied psychology , education and English literature at the University of Bern . He did his doctorate in 1963 with Richard Meili . In his dissertation, plasticity as a factor in overcoming tension in mental tasks , he compared the intelligence factors with the help of factor analysis .

Act

After several years as a foreign language teacher (English, German and French at secondary school ) and research on the importance of eye movements in problem solving, he was hired by Philips Switzerland as a consultant. Hunziker was editor-in-chief of the customer magazine Scola and organized teacher training courses on the use of video equipment , language labs and other learning technology hardware . In 1968 he acquired the world rights for the Language-Through-Pictures foreign language courses from IA Richards for Philips and produced new studio recordings for compact cassettes for the Philips AAC language learning system. This resulted in an independent international activity in the Philips Group. For this program, Hunziker developed further foreign language courses for self-study - from simple short courses for tourists in 34 languages ​​to courses in 17 languages ​​with up to six different language levels. His first book was used as a reference work by interactive learning program developers. He later wrote books on learning technology. He was also the author of the Swiss Army's non-linear interactive learning program and worked as a consultant for a teaching materials company. In 1990 he became director of the Philips CD-i studio in Zurich, where he specialized in developing interactive foreign language courses on CD-i. For Philips, he organized and led teacher training seminars in various countries: China, Indonesia, Australia, South Africa and Japan.

In 1996 he founded the company Hunziker Multimedia in Thalwil (Switzerland) to develop interactive learning programs on CD-ROM . From 1998 to 2000 he taught media didactics and perceptual psychology at a course for multimedia coordinators in Zurich . From 2002 to 2004 he was a lecturer at the University of Curative Education in Zurich (computer-aided perception training).

Fonts

CD

  • Eagle eye . 1998/2000, ISBN 3-7266-0047-7 (visual perception training: letters, symbols, drawings)
  • Super owl . 2000, ISBN 3-7266-0046-9 (auditory perception training: tones, sounds, melodies, syllable sequences, noises)
  • Lime monster . 2001, ISBN 3-7266-0053-1 (visual and auditory perception training with numbers and quantities 1 to 100)
  • Little eagle eye . 2003, ISBN 3-7266-0062-0 (visual perception training: toys, animals, faces, objects)
  • Racing rat . 2005, ISBN 3-7266-0067-1 (visual reading training: test of reading speed and text comprehension, recognition of individual letters and over 1800 of the most common German words)
  • FunKid . 2006, ISBN 3-7266-0073-6 (interactive training of spoken and written High German from the context of picture stories)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Zürichsee-Zeitung. July 23, 2011. ( Memento of the original from December 28, 2014 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. s. 4th  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.zuonline.ch

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personal data
SURNAME Hunziker, Hans-Werner
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hunziker, Hans Werner
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss psychologist and learning developer
DATE OF BIRTH June 3, 1934
PLACE OF BIRTH St. Gallen
DATE OF DEATH July 20, 2011
Place of death Thalwil