English articles

Abstract The contribution is a biographical report on the elaboration of en1ightened monolingualism in foreign language teaching and includes the following parts:

Pictures fail to convey meaning   Pictures can clarify many words, but, as empirical studies have shown, they are not good at

  Wolfgang Butzkamm From drill to discourse. (Audioversion on youtube) Exploiting the combinatorial power of language. The lecture is an attempt to

(Poznan 2013) My lecture falls into three parts. I shall explain (1) the principle of double comprehension as the prime requirement for

 This is a how-to-do it article which was first published in Juergen Kurtz’ blog Language teaching in the 21st century. The theory