Johannes-Peter Timm

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Johannes-Peter Timm (born November 7, 1942 in Baden-Baden ), alternative name: Hannespeter Timm , is a German linguist ( English studies ) and didactic specialist for modern foreign languages, especially English. Until his retirement in autumn 2000, he was Professor of Applied Linguistics and Foreign Language Didactics at the Heidelberg University of Education .

Life

Timm grew up in Villingen in the Black Forest , where he attended grammar school (later: grammar school at Romäusring ). After graduating from high school in 1962, he studied English (with Herbert Pilch and others), Romance studies (with Hugo Friedrich , Helmut Lüdtke and Olaf Deutschmann ), philosophy and education (with Eugen Fink ) at the Albert Ludwigs University in Freiburg im Breisgau and the University of Bristol in Bristol (England). In 1967 and 1969, respectively, he passed the 1st and 2nd state examinations for teaching at grammar schools and from 1969 to 1970 was a university assistant for English and French at the Lörrach University of Education . In 1979 he received his doctorate from the University of Essen under Werner Hüllen with the subjects of English, Romance studies and pedagogy. phil. In 1970 he was appointed as a lecturer of English at the University of Education Heidelberg appointed . From 1971 to 1974 he headed the English faculty committee of the Integrated Comprehensive School Mannheim-Herzogenried . In 1974 he was appointed Professor of Linguistics , Applied Linguistics and Foreign Language Didactics . From 1979 to 1981 he was deputy head, 1981 to 1985 head of Faculty II at the Heidelberg University of Education. From 1985 to 1986 he taught for a year of research and further training at the secondary school in Neckargemünd . From 1985 to 1999 he was a member of the spring conference on research into foreign language teaching , and in 1989 co-founder of the resulting German Society for Foreign Language Research (DGFF). In this context, together with Helmut Johannes Vollmer, he developed a systematic conception of foreign language research as an umbrella term for the disciplines of foreign language didactics, language teaching research and second language acquisition research. Timm has been retired since autumn 2000. He lives in Regensburg.

Research priorities

In his publications, Timm moved from a formal to a language-use oriented linguistics and from a school-related applied linguistics to foreign language teaching that their focus is not on instructional teaching method is aimed, but of instructional on promoting learning processes in an action-oriented teaching. In this context he introduced the concept of learning orientation in foreign language didactics .

Timm's main research interests were in the areas of grammar teaching , holism , action orientation , interlanguage and dealing with student errors . His books on holistic and action-oriented foreign language teaching are standard literature in the training and further education of foreign language teachers.

Fonts

  • Structural and Transformational Syntax: Opportunities and Problems in English Classes. Timely school work , 25, Issue 6/7 (monograph), Neckar-Verlag, Villingen 1972.
  • Integrated comprehensive school Mannheim-Herzogenried: Method concept and draft curriculum English for the orientation level (main report). In: School Department of the City of Mannheim (ed.): School - but how? Vol. 3a: Expert opinions on subject areas and draft curricula for subject areas of the orientation level (pp. 323–446). Mannheim 1974.
  • Pragmatic and communicative grammar in English classes. Theory and practice of lesson planning . Hueber, Munich 1979. ISBN 3-19-026732-4
  • with Gerhard Bach (ed.): Foreign language teaching in transition . Pedagogical University - Institute for Further Education, Heidelberg 1989. ISBN 3-9801530-2-9
  • with Gerhard Bach (ed.): English lessons. Basics and methods of an action-oriented teaching practice (1st edition 1989). A. Francke / UTB, Tübingen and Basel, 4th, completely revised. and exp. Edition 2009, 5th, updated edition 2013. ISBN 978-3-8252-4037-0 .
  • with Helmut Johannes Vollmer (ed.): Controversies in foreign language research. Congress documentation of the 14th Congress for Foreign Language Didactics, Essen 1991 . Brockmeyer, Bochum 1993. ISBN 3-8196-0148-1
  • (Ed.): Holistic foreign language teaching . Deutscher Studien Verlag, Weinheim 1995. ISBN 3-89271-535-1
  • (Ed.): Workshop: Grammar [topic booklet]. Foreign language teaching - English, 29, booklet 3, Seelze 1995. ISSN  0945-1250
  • (Ed.): Learning and teaching English. Didactics of English Lessons . Cornelsen, Berlin 1998 (8th printing 2011). ISBN 978-3-464-00619-1 . Edition in Braille: Munich: BIT, Munich 2000. ZKPSID 2-110704-40-3
  • (Ed.): Foreign language learning and foreign language research: skills, standards, forms of learning, evaluation. Festschrift for Helmut Johannes Vollmer . Narr, Tübingen 2006. ISBN 3-8233-6235-6

as well as approx. 60 articles in compilations and scientific journals.

  • Timm published an early literary (Romance) essay in 1971 under his alternative name Hannespeter Timm .

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Cf. German Society for Foreign Language Research and Helmut Sauer: "On the History of the DGFF" ( Memento of the original from January 24, 2009 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. . @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.dgff.de
  2. ^ Willis Edmondson, Juliane House: Introduction to Language Teaching Research. Tübingen, Basel: Francke, 4th, revised. Edition 2011, p. 15. - See Johannes-Peter Timm, Helmut J. Vollmer: Fremdsprachforschung: On the conception and perspective of a scientific area. In: Journal for Foreign Language Research , Vol. 4 (1993), Issue 1, pp. 1-47.
  3. ↑ Website J.-P. Timm as well as personal articles in Who is who? - The German Who's Who . 45th edition. Schmidt-Römhild, Lübeck 2006, Kürschner's German Scholars Calendar . 21st edition. KG Saur, Munich 2007 and Wilfried Kürschner (ed.): Linguisten-Handbuch . Narr, Tübingen 1994
  4. ↑ Johannes-Peter Timm: Changes in the self-image of an applied linguist . In: Gerhard Bach, Johannes-Peter Timm (ed.): Foreign language teaching in transition . Pedagogical University Heidelberg - Institute for Further Education, 1989. pp. 35–42 as well as the presentation of the development of his didactic position on the website J.-P. Timm
  5. ↑ Johannes-Peter Timm: Learning and process orientation of teaching . In: Johannes-Peter Timm (ed.): Learning and teaching English. Didactics of English Lessons . Cornelsen, Berlin 1998. pp. 9 f .; see. also Johannes-Peter Timm: Learning-oriented foreign language teaching: Promotion of constructive learning processes . In: Johannes-Peter Timm, Gerhard Bach (ed.): English lessons. Basics and methods of action-oriented teaching practice . A. Francke / UTB, Tübingen and Basel, for the first time: 3rd, completely revised. and improve Edition 2003, pp. 22-37.
  6. ↑ Website J.-P. Timm
  7. ↑ Hannespeter Timm: 'La fille que j'aimerons ... La fille que j'aimera' - About the subjectivity of the people in Jacques Brel's chanson 'La Bourrée du Célibataire'. Die Neueren Sprachen , Vol. 70, 1971, pp. 63-68. - Source: Website J.-P. Timm
  8. ↑ See Markus Knierim: A Life of Learning . In: public . 09/2002, p. 5 (PDF file, 63 kB)

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personal data
SURNAME Timm, Johannes-Peter
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Timm, Hannespeter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German linguist (applied linguistics) and foreign language teacher
DATE OF BIRTH November 7, 1942
PLACE OF BIRTH Baden-Baden