Hans Peter Krings

Hans Peter Krings (born August 7, 1954 in Mönchengladbach ) is a German humanities and social scientist . He is professor for applied linguistics with a focus on Romance languages ​​/ international communication in Faculty 10 at the University of Bremen .

Krings teaches Romance languages and researches a. a. in the field of translation studies . He is jointly responsible for the interdisciplinary applied philological course "Language Management and International Communication".

At the University of Bremen and beyond, he is known to many students as the initiator of the Bremen writing coach .

Career

Krings studied Romance philology , social sciences, education and philosophy at the Ruhr University Bochum . He passed the first state examination for teaching high schools for French and Italian. He then worked for a year in a translation agency in Ancona (Italy) and a private language school as a teacher of German as a foreign language .

From 1981 to 1986 he worked at the seminar for language teaching research at the Ruhr University Bochum, initially as a research assistant, then as a research assistant. 1985 followed his doctorate to Dr. phil. in the subject of linguistic research with the thesis "What goes on in the minds of translators. An empirical study of the structure of the translation process in advanced French learners ". Other doctoral subjects were Romance philology and social sciences.

From 1985 to 1986 Krings was a co-initiator and research assistant in the DFG project "Special features of tertiary language teaching in upper secondary school in the subjects Italian and Spanish". In 1995, Krings became a student of “ Applied Linguistics ” at the University of Hildesheim with the script “Texts repair. Empirical studies on the process of post-editing machine translations. ” Habilitated .

After further professional positions, in 1999 he became professor for "Applied Linguistics with a focus on Romance Languages ​​/ International Communication" in the Department of "Linguistics and Literature" at the University of Bremen.

In 2003 he received an honorary doctorate from the Copenhagen University of Economics and Business for his complete academic work in the field of translation studies.

Publications (selection)

• Krings, Hans P .: Foreign language learning with a system. The great guide to the best strategies for beginners, advanced and professionals. ISBN 978-3-87548-783-1 Hamburg, Helmut Buske Verlag, 2016
• Krings, HP (Ed.): Scientific Basics of Technical Communication (1996): How Much Science Do Technical Editors Need? On the relationship between science and practice in the field of technical documentation. In: Tübingen: Gunter Narr Verlag, 1996. pp. 5–128.
• The testing. In: Veronesi, D./Cavagnoli, St. (Ed.): Glottodidattica settoriale modularizzata per gruppi specifici: l'italiano per giuristi ed economisti. Bolzano: Accademia Europea di Bolzano, Area scientifica 'Lingua e diritto' 1997. pp. 97-122.
• The medium is not the message - On the development of computer-aided foreign language reading courses. In: Helbig, B./Kleppin, K./Königs, FG (Ed.), Language teaching research in transition. Contributions to research into the teaching and learning of foreign languages. Festschrift for Karl-Richard Bausch . Tübingen: Stauffenberg 2000. pp. 205-220.
• Italian. In: Bausch, KR / Christ, H. / Krumm, HJ (Hrsg.): Handbook of foreign language teaching. 4th ext. and revised Edition. Tübingen: A. Francke (2002)

Web links

• Page at the University of Bremen
• The Bremen writing coach (PDF)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ The work was published under the same title: Tübingen, Narr-Verlag 1986, 570 pages.
2. ^ Krings website at the University of Bremen