Kurt Kohn

Kurt Kohn (* 1944 in Gescher ) is a German linguist . Until his retirement he taught as a university professor at the philological faculty of the Eberhard Karls University in Tübingen in the field of applied and English linguistics.

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Kurt Kohn was born in Gescher (North Rhine-Westphalia) in 1944. From 1973 to 1983 he worked as a researcher and lecturer at the University of Konstanz , where he completed his habilitation in English and applied linguistics in 1980 . After working at the University of Konstanz, he was Professor of Translation Studies at the Institute for Translation and Interpreting (IÜD) at the University of Heidelberg from 1983 to 1993 . At the same time he was an honorary visiting professor at the University of Surrey in Guildford (England) from 1990 to 1993 . From 1993 until his retirement he held a chair for English and applied linguistics at the Eberhard Karls University in Tübingen.

Kurt Kohn's main research interests include second language research, computer-aided teaching and learning of languages ​​(e-learning / blended learning), psycholinguistics of second language acquisition, intercultural communication, translation and interpreting, technical languages, terminology and the pedagogical aspects of English as lingua franca.

However, application-related projects in the field of multimedia and web-based second language acquisition form an important part of his work. These are particularly evident in the TELOS and Steinbeis Transfer Center Language Learning Media projects , with the latter being the founding director.

In addition, cooperation between science and industry has also received support from Kurt Kohn.

In 2009 he and his extensive work became the subject of a commemorative publication.

In addition, he is involved in programs for multimedia content authoring as well as in several projects within the framework of the Lifelong Learning Program (LLP) of the European Union, which includes funding programs such as Comenius and Leonardo . These include:

• BACKBONE - 2009 to 2011
• CIP (Communication in International Projects) - 2004 to 2007
• DEUMA (German in Mechanical Engineering) - 2001 to 2004
• EVIVA (Evaluating the Education of Interpreters & their Clients through Virtual Learning Activities) - 2013 to 2014
• icEurope (Intercultural Communication in Europe) - 2008 to 2011
• INCA (Intercultural Competence Assessment) - 2001 to 2004
• IVY (Interpreting in Virtual Reality) - 2011 to 2013
• TALL (Teaching Autonomy in Language Learning) - 1998 to 2001
• TELF (Tübingen English as a Lingua Franca) - since 2006
• TELOS (Telematics Enhanced Language Learning and Tutoring Systems) - 1996 to 1998
• TILA (Telecollaboration for Intercultural Language Acquisition) - 2013 to 2015
• ViKiS (Video conference interpreting with integrated simultaneous interpreting) - 1996 to 1998

Publications (selection)

• What the learner does not know does not make him hot . In: Linguistic reports 64. Wiesbaden: Vieweg, 1979.
• Technical language and translation. Psycholinguistic dimensions of technical language research . In: GNUTZMANN, Claus (Hrsg.): New perspectives on subject-related foreign language teaching . Tübingen: Narr, 1988.
• Terminological knowledge for translation purposes . In: ARNTZ, Reiner; THOME, Gisela (Ed.): Translation Studies. Results and Perspectives. Festschrift for Wolfram Wilss on his 65th birthday . Tübingen: Narr, 1990.
• Dimensions of learning language performance. Theoretical and empirical studies on second language acquisition . Tübingen: Narr, 1990.
• Comments on the problem of collocation . In: ANSCHÜTZ, Susanne (Ed.): Texts, Sentences, Words and Moneme Festschrift for Klaus Heger on his 65th birthday . Heidelberg: Heidelberger Orientverlag, 1992.
• [with RIEDER, Angelika] Telos Language Learning: User Needs and Telemedia Explorations . In: HOGAN-BRUN, Gabrielle; JUNG, Udo (Ed.): Media, Multimedia, Omnimedia . Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 1999.
• On the role of translation in language learners . HOUSE, Juliane; KOLLER, Werner; SCHUBERT, Klaus (Ed.): New Perspectives in Translation and Interpreting. Festschrift for Heidrun Gerzymisch-Arbogast on the occasion of his 60th birthday . Bochum: AKS, 2004.
• [with BRAUN, Sabine] (Ed.): Language (s) in the knowledge society. Proceedings of the 34th Annual Meeting of the Society for Applied Linguistics . Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 2005.
• [with BRAUN, Sabine; MUKHERJEE, Joybrato] (Eds.): Corpus Technology and Language Pedagogy: New Resources, New Tools, New Methods . Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 2006.
• English as a global lingua franca. A challenge for the school . In: ANSTATT, Tanja (Ed.): Multilingualism in children and adults . Tübingen: Narr, 2007.
• Telos Language Partner: 'Do it yourself' authoring for content-based language learning . In: GIMENO, Ana (Ed.): Computer Assisted Language Learning: Authoring Tools for Web-Based CALL . Valencia: Editorial de la Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, 2008.
• [with HOFFSTAEDTER, Petra; WIDMANN, Johannes] BACKBONE - Pedagogic Corpora for Content & Language Integrated Learning . In: Proceedings of the EUROCALL Conference, Valencia-Gandia, 9-12 Sept 2009 . London: Macmillan ELT, 2011.
• [with BRAUN, Sabine] Towards a pedagogic corpus approach to business and community interpreter training . In: AHRENS, Barbara; ALBL-MIKASA, Michaela; SASSE, Claudia (ed.): Interpreting quality in practice, teaching and research. Festschrift for Sylvia Kalina . Tübingen: Narr, 2012.
• A pedagogical space for English as a lingua franca in the English classroom . In: BAYYURT, Yasemin; AKCAN, Sumru (Ed.): Current perspectives on pedagogy for ELF . New York: De Gruyter Mouton, 2014.

Web links

• Homepage of TELOS
• STZ language learning media
• Kurt Kohn on linkedin.com
• Kurt Kohn on the website of the University of Tübingen
• Literature by and about Kurt Kohn in the catalog of the German National Library
• Kurt Kohn's YouTube channel

Individual evidence

1. ↑ GERZYMISCH-ARBOGAST, Heidrun; GILE, Daniel; HOUSE, Juliane; ROTHKEGEL, Annely (Hrsg.): Yearbook of translation and interpreting. Paths of translation and interpreting research . Tübingen: Narr-Verlag, 1999. p. 322
2. ↑ http://projects.ael.uni-tuebingen.de/stz/moodle/mod/resource/view.php?id=164
3. ↑ ALBL-MIKASA, Michaela; BRAUN, Sabine; KALINA, Sylvia (Ed.): Dimensions of Second Language Research . Dimensions of Second Language Research. Festschrift for Kurt Kohn . Tübingen: Narr-Verlag, 2009.