Ab Initio Language Teaching in British Higher Education, The Case of German, The Case of German

Year

2022

Publisher

UCL Press

Language

English

Pages

ISBN

978-1-78735-927-7

Link

Last Update

28-Oct-2024

Keywords

Education ; Language & Literature

Description

This book is an update and follow-up to Leder, Reimann and Walsh’s (1996) volume that was among the first to shed light on the development of ab initio German teaching and learning at UK universities. In this chapter, we will first investigate twenty-first-century policy changes and developments in the Modern Foreign Language (MFL) landscape in the UK at secondary level and their impact on higher education, followed by an overview of the development of ab initio instruction of German in higher education, both at undergraduate degree level and through institution-wide language programmes for non-specialist language study. We will then outline...