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Deutsch im gymnasialen Unterricht: Deutschland, Luxemburg und die deutschsprachige Schweiz im Vergleich :
A project to be undertaken by Dr Wini Davies, Aberystwyth University, Dr Melanie Wagner, Université du Luxembourg and Dr Eva L. Wyss, Universität Basel. The role of teachers as the transmitters of prestige varieties of language tends to be taken for granted. It is assumed that they play a major role in cultivating and promoting the use of certain varieties / variants (standard German) and for that reason, they are usually described in the relevant literature as language norm authorities (Sprachnormautoritäten, cf. Ammon 1995). There are however few empirical studies to back up these assumptions. The demands made of teachers have changed substantially over the years as schools have become increasingly socially and linguistically heterogeneous, and more changes may come their way in the wake of the post-PISA debate in the German-speaking countries about strengths and weaknesses of the various national education systems. For academic linguists the dominant model used to describe the linguistic situation in the German-speaking world is ‘pluricentricity’, i.e. one German language made up of a number of equally valid national varieties. In this project we aim to establish to what extent such a model is useful for teachers, as well as establishing what linguistic competences teachers consider important nowadays.
If you are a teacher of German at a Gymnasium in Nordrhein-Westfalen and would be prepared to help by filling in a questionnaire, you can download one here. All data are collected anonymously. / Wenn Sie Deutschlehrerin oder Deutschlehrer an einem Gymnasium in Nordrhein-Westfalen sind und bereit sind, einen Fragebogen auszufuellen, koennen Sie ihn hier herunterladen. Alle Daten werden anonym erhoben:
Questionnaire German (Word document 172 KB); Questionnaire_German (PDF format 57 KB)
References:
Ammon, Ulrich (1995): Die deutsche Sprache in Deutschland, Oesterreich und der Schweiz: Das Problem der nationalen Varietaeten. Berlin/New York.
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