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Rethinking German Language Education. Edition No. 1

VDM Publishing House, May 2009, Pages: 188

This book shows how the educational value of language
study could be improved through the application of
philosophical hermeneutics. For some time now,
language educators have been unable to forge a common
pedagogical approach. The cultural turn in Western
intellectual thought has led within language pedagogy
to an impasse over the role of culture. An approach
derived from hermeneutics is to concentrate on the
turn from the familiar to the unfamiliar required by
language study, and the change in self-understanding
made possible by the learning of a new language. With
German as the language of reference, and the
philosophy of Martin Heidegger as the hermeneutical
frame, this book shows how such an approach could be
applied. Heidegger's concepts of authentic
understanding and poetic thinking are developed to
form the basis for a hermeneutical model of teaching
and learning. The model engenders new ways of
conceptualizing language learning in general, and
German language learning in particular. Together, the
new conceptions underline the value of language study
within post-secondary education and will be of
interest to everyone who cares about education.

Angelika, Struch.
Angelika Struch, Ph.D.: Studied language pedagogy and
philosophical hermeneutics at The University of British Columbia
in Vancouver, Canada. Coordinator of the German Language Program
at UBC.