http://hdl.handle.net/10498/14647 2026-11-05T19:07:53Z 2026-11-05T19:07:53Z Haidl Dietlmeier, Anton Gilen Kirchhoff, Natalie http://hdl.handle.net/10498/24219 2022-05-17T11:37:34Z 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

ISLA / IFLA course design: Principles and practical proposals for beginners' courses Haidl Dietlmeier, Anton Gilen; Kirchhoff, Natalie 00-Abstract: Everybody involved in teaching modern languages will have observed that even adults can still have access to some kind of intuitive knowledge (Coppieters, R. 1987) when exposed naturally to a new language, and this is independent of the language taught and the age of the students (Kim, et al, 1997). Looking for a theoretical explanation for these observational facts we came across an idea formulated by N. Chomsky (1965)1, who had claimed, in one of his few pronouncements on the relevance of his theories for language teaching, that the human mind must (automatically) possess ‘intuitive heuristics’, which, he argued, should be part of ‘teaching program(s) …. in such a way as to give free play to those creative principles that humans bring to the process of language learning’. In this paper we will try to show how this author’s ideas on competence (1965) and performance (1965, 1975, 1981) might serve as a general framework for foreign language teaching (A. Howatt, 1974, W. Littlewood, 1984 and Larsen-Freeman & Long, 1991) as they offer a quite plausible vision for explaining how different mental capacities cooperate when people use language for communication. Starting with a brief description of Chomsky’s competence model we will then analyse input, Chomsky’s central concept for language acquisition. This will be done under the perspective of the processes that can be supposed for comprehension and in terms of Relevance Theory (RT) (Sperber & Wilson, 1986). RT will then be reinterpreted, as Javier Garcia (2007) proposes, in the light of Michael Long's here-and-now principle (1983). In the last part, we will offer first a brief summary of the practical measures for classroom interaction developed during our long-term study, carried out between 2005 and 2015, measures that pretend to assure a natural like language processing in the classroom, and the paper concludes with a first brief summary of observational data on the results obtained so far. The principal conclusions proposed are twofold: With respect to theory, this paper claims that adults still seem to have a limited access to children’s Language Acquisition Device: the Adult-LAD. And, in practical terms: foreign language teaching should not begin with grammar teaching, but with immersion centred on communication. This paper is a revised version of the one that appeared with many formal defects in the original publication.

2020-12-01T00:00:00Z Haidl Dietlmeier, Anton Gilen http://hdl.handle.net/10498/14799 2021-07-01T09:47:51Z 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

Zur Einsprachigkeit im Fremdsprachenunterricht: Kommentare, Fragen und Alternativen zu W. Butzkamms 13 Thesen (2005) Haidl Dietlmeier, Anton Gilen Auf dem Hintergrund von W. Butzkamms 13 Thesen(2005), einem Plädoyer für den Einsatz der Muttersprache im Fremdsprachenunterricht, argumentiert der Autor dieses Beitrags zu Gunsten einer fast ausschliesslich zielsprachlichen Gestaltung des Fremdsprachenunterrichts in der Auslandsituation. Zielsprachliche Elemente sollten auf die ersten Stunden einer theoretisch-praktischen Einleitung beschränkt sein und auf die Hausarbeit im Rahmen von Internetplattformen. El trabajo es la contribución del autor al homenaje del Prof. Dr. Jordi Jané de la Universidad Rovira i Virgili de Tarragona que se jubiló en julio de 2010.

2012-05-01T00:00:00Z Haidl Dietlmeier, Anton Gilen http://hdl.handle.net/10498/14651 2022-05-17T11:31:23Z 1996-07-01T00:00:00Z

DaF in Andalusien. Überlegungen und Hypothesen zu einer möglichen Arbeitsrichtung Haidl Dietlmeier, Anton Gilen El artículo propone ideas para el diseño de las clases de alemán en Andalucia, donde esta lengua es -fuera de los grandes centros turísticos- una lengua extranjera. Las propuestas se basan en el modelo dual del lenguaje propuesto por N. Chomsky en sus 'Syntactic Structures' y en la Teoría de la Relevancia propuesta por Sperber y Wilson (1986). El "Magazin" es la revista de la Asociación de Germanistas de Andalucía que se publica desde el año 1996.

1996-07-01T00:00:00Z Haidl Dietlmeier, Anton Gilen http://hdl.handle.net/10498/11095 2022-05-18T08:57:08Z 1993-01-01T00:00:00Z

La "teoría de la relevancia" y los procesos de adquisición en la enseñanza de idiomas extranjeros Haidl Dietlmeier, Anton Gilen

1993-01-01T00:00:00Z