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Der Stellenwert von Aufgabenorientierung und Formfokussierung in der phraseologiebezogenen Wortschatzarbeit
The Importance of Task-Based Learning and Focus on Form in Teaching Phraseology

Author(s): Marios Chrissou
Subject(s): Foreign languages learning, Theoretical Linguistics, Language acquisition, Phraseology
Published by: Vilniaus Universiteto Leidykla
Keywords: phraseology; phrasemes; vocabulary work; task based learning; focus on form;

Summary/Abstract: A controversial issue for teachers of German as a foreign language is the balance between content and form. This also applies to vocabulary work in the field of phraseology. The modeling of language competence in the communicative approach is based on the understanding of language as a means of communication. Accordingly, the primary claim of communicative language didactics is to go beyond the description of structures of the foreign language and to place appropriate, situated linguistic action at the center of teaching. Against this theoretical background, content-oriented approaches such as Task-Based Learning have emerged in foreign language didactics, which emphasize the communicative aspect of language and place the didactic emphasis on situated, authentic tasks. Nevertheless, this emphasis did not lead to the suppression of form-based approaches which consider precision in language mastery by focusing on formal aspects through exercises to be necessary and desirable.

  • Issue Year: 2020
  • Issue No: 73
  • Page Range: 8-30
  • Page Count: 23
  • Language: German