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Zum Stellenwert des Schreibens in der Geschichte des Fremdsprachenunterrichts
On the Significance of Writing in the History of Language Teaching

Author(s): Iwona Machowicz
Subject(s): Foreign languages learning
Published by: Wydawnictwo Naukowe Uniwersytetu Marii Curie-Sklodowskiej
Keywords: writing instruction; autonomy

Summary/Abstract: The aim of this paper is to discuss the changing role and status of writing skills in the methodology of German language teaching, as well as to sketch the most recent trends which point to this issue. Allowing for the idea of autonomy of language teaching, which has been thoroughly discussed during debates concerning foreign language teaching in recent years, an attempt to select and highlight particular competence which should distinguish a student being able to develop writing skills in a foreign language in an autonomous way, has been undertaken in the article. Moreover, the most novel trends in methodology, which can be taken into account in the problem raised in the article, have been briefly presented.

  • Issue Year: 34/2010
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 112-129
  • Page Count: 18
  • Language: German