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Multiliteracies in the Foreign Language Classroom. Using Video Games in the FLC

Author : Isabelle Humburg
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3656915946
Total Pages : 27 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (569 download)

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Download or read book Multiliteracies in the Foreign Language Classroom. Using Video Games in the FLC written by Isabelle Humburg and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2015-03-10 with total page 27 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seminar paper from the year 2014 in the subject Didactics for the subject English - Pedagogy, Literature Studies, grade: 1,7, Justus-Liebig-University Giessen, course: Multiliteracies in the Foreign Language Classroom, language: English, abstract: According to a survey published in 2013 nearly every youth spends roughly 180 minutes online every day during the school week (MPFS 2013: 64). Of the asked adolescents, 45% said that they play computer, console or online games regularly and gave the estimate of “76 minutes on weekdays and 101 minutes on weekends” (MPFS 2013:65) spend playing digital games. There is a term for all those born after the 1970s, that grew up surrounded and using technology on a daily basis: digital natives (Schoolnet 2009: 6). This new generation of born natives uses digital devices with little to no instruction. One could say they are fluent or literate in this 'language'. These digital natives use this technology based language to communicate, express themselves, as well as to understand and manipulate their environment. They use social networking sites as well as digital games, often combined with each other, to entertain themselves. Through their constant use digital natives are used to an environment, which constantly rewards them for things like endurance (daily log in rewards) or finishing things in a timely matter (finishing in a quest in a certain time frame). This kind of reward system is what they expect in the classroom. A traditional classroom environment may not be motivating enough for this new generation of learners (Schoolnet 2009: 6). This term paper deals with digital games in the English foreign language classroom (EFL). As students clearly enjoy playing these games and are motivated to do so on a nearly daily basis, why not use this kind of motivation to learn English? In the following the theory behind the usage and advantage of digital games in the classroom is outlined. In the end there is a teaching proposal for a unit, that uses an online game to teach historical facts and events.

Multiliteracy Play

Author : Chantelle Warner
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350338389
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (53 download)

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Download or read book Multiliteracy Play written by Chantelle Warner and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2024-03-07 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book proposes to expand multiliteracies frameworks in second language education, by recognizing that learning a new language and culture involves both designs and desires, the affects and emotions that feed our responses to particular ways of making meaning. Over the past two decades, multiliteracies approaches to second language education have brought attention to the diversity of modes, media, language varieties, and discourses involved in what we often shorthand as language learning. A core concept in these discussions is the idea of meaning design, the idea that languages are dynamic, culturally-shaped systems of resources for engaging with and making sense of the world. Building on these discussions and drawing inspiration and practical examples from a variety of modern language classes in higher education in the USA, the book demonstrates how poetic and playful language can be embedded in multiliteracies pedagogy in ways that foster learners' and teachers' awareness of designs, while also making space for desires that are harder to script or plan for. In addition to building a conceptual map around poetics and play for researchers and teachers in language education, the book offers concrete examples of what a multiliteracies approach emphasizing designs and desires can look like in classrooms and curricula.

Bridging Literacies with Videogames

Author : Hannah R. Gerber
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 9462096686
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (62 download)

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Download or read book Bridging Literacies with Videogames written by Hannah R. Gerber and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-09-23 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bridging Literacies with Videogames provides an international perspective of literacy practices, gaming culture, and traditional schooling. Featuring studies from Australia, Colombia, South Korea, Canada, and the United States, this edited volume addresses learning in primary, secondary, and tertiary environments with topics related to: • re-creating worlds and texts • massive multiplayer second language learning • videogames and classroom learning These diverse topics will provide scholars, teachers, and curriculum developers with empirical support for bringing videogames into classroom spaces to foster meaning making. Bridging Literacies with Videogames is an essential text for undergraduates, graduates, and faculty interested in contemporizing learning with the medium of the videogame.

Multiliteracies in World Language Education

Author : Yuri Kumagai
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781138832190
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (321 download)

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Download or read book Multiliteracies in World Language Education written by Yuri Kumagai and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Advocating an effective pedagogy that puts a multiliteracies framework at the center of the world language curriculum, this volume brings together college-level curricular innovations and classroom projects that address differences in meaning and worldviews expressed in learners' primary and target languages.

Teaching with Video Games

Author : Zachary Hartzman
Publisher : Independently Published
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 150 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (52 download)

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Download or read book Teaching with Video Games written by Zachary Hartzman and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2021-10-22 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is a lot more value to be found in video games than what is traditionally considered educational. Video games can do more than just build one's literacy; it can teach mechanics, problem-solving, rules, narrative speaking, and even foster relationships with others. This book offers an in depth look at what an entire English Language Arts unit focused on video games in the classroom can look like. Included is a full 30 day unit utilizing the video games "What Remains of Edith Finch" & "Gone Home" as central texts. Students will be tasked to play both games and identify and analyze the many literary elements and rhetorical devices found across both games. A full unit plan and 30 individual lesson descriptions act as your teaching guide. Also included is a debrief of how each lesson went with my own students with student completed handouts attached. When I first decided to pursue a career in education, my close friends joked that I would be the teacher who watched movies and played video games with his students. I always knew in the back of my mind that both of those activities, especially video games, could be a real asset. My hope in writing this book is that you and other educators will be both inspired and prepared to teach with video games in your own classroom.

Motivation and Motivating in the Foreign Language Classroom

Author : Steffi Joetze
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3640944550
Total Pages : 24 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (49 download)

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Book Synopsis Motivation and Motivating in the Foreign Language Classroom by : Steffi Joetze

Download or read book Motivation and Motivating in the Foreign Language Classroom written by Steffi Joetze and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2011-06-27 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seminar paper from the year 2008 in the subject Didactics for the subject English - Pedagogy, Literature Studies, grade: 2,0, University of Cologne, language: English, abstract: The study of motivation to learn a L2 is a thoroughly discussed and researched subject in the field of L2 acquisition. Nevertheless questions like “What is motivation? How do humans get motivated? What specifies motivation in language learning?” (Nakata 2006, p. 23) are very difficult, maybe even impossible, to answer entirely. So the aim of the following investigation should not be to give a complete picture of research on L2 motivation but to explore special parts of this extensive topic more precisely and to find out what exactly a teacher can contribute to a motivational teaching in the L2 classroom. To show how to enhance students’ motivational intensity, it is necessary to know what motivation is. Therefore the complex theoretical concept of motivation itself will be dealt with at first in this paper. Furthermore there are various kinds of motivation which have been identified by researchers. Some of them will be presented in connection with their theoretical concepts and with reference to this it should be discussed if there is a type of motivation being most effective in terms of L2 learning. In a further step the factors of L2 motivation influencing the level of L2 learning motivation will be investigated in more detail. Having dealt with the nature of motivation itself and its factors the research will have a more practical orientation to the foreign language classroom. For that the point of view will be directed towards teachers and their possibilities of using motivational strategies and techniques in the foreign language classroom. The question how students’ motivation can be increased should be the issue to discuss in this place.

The Multiliteracies Classroom

Author : Kathy Mills
Publisher : Multilingual Matters Limited
ISBN 13 : 9781847693181
Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (931 download)

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Book Synopsis The Multiliteracies Classroom by : Kathy Mills

Download or read book The Multiliteracies Classroom written by Kathy Mills and published by Multilingual Matters Limited. This book was released on 2011 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The multiliteracies approach to literacy education has become established as an accessible and effective paradigm for classroom practice in the 21st century. The Multiliteracies Classroom enlivens this theory with its vivid description of events in a real classroom. Teachers will identify with the lively transcripts of classroom interactions, and be inspired to widen students' access to new literacy practices in an increasingly digital and globalised world. The possibilities and constraints that can be encountered when implementing multiliteracies are explored in detail. Educators know from experience that students begin their classroom journey with entirely unequal opportunities for literacy success. The Multiliteracies Classroom does not ignore this reality, highlighting the influence of society's patterns of power on literacy learning in the digital age. Its key themes provide a blueprint for the future of literacy research and practice.

Creative Writing in Foreign Language Teaching

Author : Kirsten Hinzpeter
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3656108382
Total Pages : 33 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (561 download)

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Download or read book Creative Writing in Foreign Language Teaching written by Kirsten Hinzpeter and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2012-02 with total page 33 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seminar paper from the year 2009 in the subject English - Pedagogy, Didactics, Literature Studies, grade: 1,0, University of Hamburg, language: English, abstract: The idea of creativity in the classroom first came up in the 1970s as a means of "Erneuerung, Veränderung [und] Selbstentfaltung" and in order to combat "Verkrustung, Erstarrung [und] Routine" (Thaler in Klippel 2008: 236). At first merely German lessons were affected by this new trend but soon afterwards it became a part in foreign language teaching as well. Today creative writing is considered by many scholars as an important component of teaching foreign languages. In the following it will be discussed what crea-tive writing actually is and why it is important. Furthermore, the process character and the question how creative writing should be marked will be examined.

On the Use of Webquests and E-Learning in the English As a Foreign Language Classroom

Author : Julian Pilger
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9783668867055
Total Pages : 24 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (67 download)

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Book Synopsis On the Use of Webquests and E-Learning in the English As a Foreign Language Classroom by : Julian Pilger

Download or read book On the Use of Webquests and E-Learning in the English As a Foreign Language Classroom written by Julian Pilger and published by . This book was released on 2018-12-02 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seminar paper from the year 2018 in the subject Communications - Multimedia, Internet, New Technologies, grade: 2,3, University of Trier, language: English, abstract: In the following, an internet based activity, namely the WebQuest, is going to be observed by analyzing possible risks and benefits and its importance on the very relevant teaching aim of media literacy and competences referring to that. Then, a concrete example of such a task will be shown and an overall conclusion will be drawn in order to answer the initial question of this paper of whether the method of WebQuests is a useful one or not. Additionally, this paper justifies its relevance by the fact that WebQuests were not originally designed for language learning, so that creating one possibly is a challenge but the outcome will hopefully be supporting with regards to developing future WebQuests for the actual usage concerning me being a teacher. Being a modern (English) language teacher means to include the various forms of information technology (IT) available in the 21st century such as computers or even interactive whiteboards. IT can now add valuable extra dimensions to teaching English as a foreign language. Consequently, the usage of IT can definitely improve English language teaching for various reasons. Besides providing teachers with current material for every topic and easily overcoming geographical distance in order to observe relevant cultural aspects of the target language or to interact with native speakers, it is fun and therefore motivating for the students. The main goal of foreign language teaching is the mediation of competences which enable the students to communicate and overcome the language barrier. Concerning possible problems and risks, the time consuming aspect of WebQuests cannot be disregarded. They demand time beforehand and even though they can save teacher's time in the long term, WebQuests need to be nurtured when they are expected to perform over a longer period

Gender Representation in Video Games

Author : Sven Frueh
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3346378586
Total Pages : 22 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (463 download)

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Download or read book Gender Representation in Video Games written by Sven Frueh and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2021-03-31 with total page 22 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seminar paper from the year 2021 in the subject Gender Studies, grade: 1, Private Pädagogische Hochschule der Diözese Linz (PHDL), language: English, abstract: This paper aims to examine in how far the portrayal of stereotypical gender roles in video games has changed. For this purpose, one of the oldest and most popular video game franchises “The Legend of Zelda” is analysed using a theoretical framework of both game studies and gender studies. The paper aims to give a game overview of three key aspects – story, picture, and characters – focusing on the portrayal of gender norms, and stereotypes. Over the past fifty years, video games have taken over a substantial part of the media entertainment industry, with approximately 5,3 million Austrians playing; 90 % of the most active age group, the ten-to-fifteen-year olds, are playing more than once a month. However, the average Austrian gamer is 54 % male and 46 % female, 35 years old, and spends an average of 11,5 hours per week playing. Video games, as well as any other form of mass entertainment media, can influence players’ perceptions and expectations around gender identity and gender roles. The stereotypical portrayal of masculinity and femininity, which was a common occurrence in the early history of video games, is especially problematic in reaffirming gender stereotypes. This materialised in a pattern of white, male, heterosexual player characters being sent on a heroic journey, while female characters were often oversexualised while playing a passive role as a love interest for the main character. In this regard, video game heroes and characters, as well as their narrative, were not different from popular cultural movies, comics, and books of the late 20th century.

Language and Creativity

Author : Ronald Carter
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317332660
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (173 download)

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Download or read book Language and Creativity written by Ronald Carter and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-09-16 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Language and Creativity has become established as a pivotal text for courses in English Language, Linguistics and Literacy. Creativity in language has conventionally been regarded as the preserve of institutionalised discourses such as literature and advertising, and individual gifted minds. In this ground-breaking book, bestselling author Ronald Carter explores the idea that creativity, far from being simply a property of exceptional people, is an exceptional property of all people. Drawing on a range of real examples of everyday conversations and speech, from flatmates in a student house and families on holiday to psychotherapy sessions and chat-lines, the book argues that creativity is an all-pervasive feature of everyday language. Using close analysis of naturally occurring language, taken from a unique 5 million word corpus, Language and Creativity reveals that speakers commonly make meanings in a variety of creative ways, in a wide range of social contexts and for a diverse set of reasons. This Routledge Linguistics Classic is here reissued with a new preface from the author, covering a range of key topics from e-language and internet discourse to English language teaching and world Englishes. Language and Creativity continues to build on the previous theories of creativity, offering a radical contribution to linguistic, literary and cultural theory. A must for anyone interested in the creativity of our everyday speech.

Foreign Language Teaching and Learning in Bangladesh. an Investigation on the Impact of Authentic Material

Author : Galib Shahriar
Publisher : Grin Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9783668312739
Total Pages : 60 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (127 download)

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Book Synopsis Foreign Language Teaching and Learning in Bangladesh. an Investigation on the Impact of Authentic Material by : Galib Shahriar

Download or read book Foreign Language Teaching and Learning in Bangladesh. an Investigation on the Impact of Authentic Material written by Galib Shahriar and published by Grin Publishing. This book was released on 2016-10-21 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thesis (M.A.) from the year 2012 in the subject English - Miscellaneous, course: Teaching English to the Speakers of Other Languages, language: English, abstract: This research aims to find out whether there is any impact on performance when students read authentic materials beside the textbooks. Students in Bangladesh often have difficulties in learning English as a foreign language for lack of appropriate learning materials in the classroom. Too often foreign language teaching texts in our country are designed either too difficult or too easy for students. Without appropriate texts that suit them, learners spend long hours in the classroom accomplishing very little in the long run. Most of them remain weak in reading, writing, listening and speaking in English properly even after receiving higher education. Students' performance varies according to the type of materials given to them. A significant amount of research shows that there is something about the type of textbooks/materials that should be looked into and evaluated carefully so that necessary adaptation can be made for effective learning to take place. When learners are introduced to variety of materials, it is necessary to understand what impact they have on the learners.

Foreign Language Didactics at Cadi Ayyad University. How the University Language Center will enhance Students' Foreign Language Skills

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Author : Mohammed El Moussaoui
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3346026884
Total Pages : 83 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (46 download)

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Book Synopsis Foreign Language Didactics at Cadi Ayyad University. How the University Language Center will enhance Students' Foreign Language Skills by : Mohammed El Moussaoui

Download or read book Foreign Language Didactics at Cadi Ayyad University. How the University Language Center will enhance Students' Foreign Language Skills written by Mohammed El Moussaoui and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2019-10-02 with total page 83 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Master's Thesis from the year 2016 in the subject English - Pedagogy, Didactics, Literature Studies, grade: -, , language: English, abstract: This research paper is part of the Language Center Project that is conceived and designed, under the auspices of Cadi Ayyad University, by a team made up of professors from the English and French departments at the Faculty of Arts and Humanities of Marrakech. It investigates the field of foreign language didactics and analyzes Cadi Ayyad students’ needs in foreign languages. The research was carried out using questionnaires that were administered to a sample of 435 students from six faculties and ENS in Marrakech. The results revealed that the majority of the respondents are not proficient in foreign languages and that they are willing to learn another foreign language. The purpose of the paper then is to suggest practical strategies and techniques for Cadi Ayyad Language Center to implement with the aim of enhancing the University students’ foreign language skills.

Advanced Foreign Language Learning

Author : Heidi Byrnes
Publisher : Heinle
ISBN 13 : 9781413000405
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book Advanced Foreign Language Learning written by Heidi Byrnes and published by Heinle. This book was released on 2004 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The popular AAUSC series of annual volumes for directors of university language programs strives to further scholarship in second language acquisition and teaching with regard to undergraduate programs with multi-section courses. Teaching assistant supervision, teaching assistant professional preparation, and the role of faculty and administrators in postsecondary institutions are some of the topics addressed.

Motivation and Foreign Language Teaching - Strategies for Motivation

Author : Sven Kost
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3638427447
Total Pages : 23 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (384 download)

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Book Synopsis Motivation and Foreign Language Teaching - Strategies for Motivation by : Sven Kost

Download or read book Motivation and Foreign Language Teaching - Strategies for Motivation written by Sven Kost and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2005-10-12 with total page 23 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seminar paper from the year 2003 in the subject English - Pedagogy, Didactics, Literature Studies, grade: 1,3, University of Paderborn, 7 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: The assumption that motivation and learning are directly connected to each other is supported by teachers, researchers and psychologists for a long period of time. They have pointed out that motivation can be regarded as the key issue in language learning processes, thus student motivation must be preserved, elaborated or even heightened. But how can this goal be reached by teachers or other instructors? In order to achieve this lofty mission, teachers and instructors have to make use of specific strategies for motivation. These strategies must be closely connected to the students’ lives and it has to be in the nature of these strategies to support the students in their learning process. Learning usually takes place in a classroom atmosphere, thus motivation has to be involved in this environment to guarantee learning effiency. This paper will give an overview about what different kinds of motivations are involved in the learning process and in second language learning in particular. Addionally it should give the reader an idea why motivation is so essential for learning processes. Further more it will take a critical look at what strategies for motivation teachers and other instructors can make use of in order to provide a successful learning environment. In the end it should be obvious how far the teacher can positively influence language learning processes, in particular second language acquisition processes.

Methods of Foreign Language Teaching in the 19th and 20th Century

Author : Katharina Baron
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3638562441
Total Pages : 28 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (385 download)

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Book Synopsis Methods of Foreign Language Teaching in the 19th and 20th Century by : Katharina Baron

Download or read book Methods of Foreign Language Teaching in the 19th and 20th Century written by Katharina Baron and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2006-10-29 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seminar paper from the year 2006 in the subject Didactics - English - Pedagogy, Literature Studies, grade: 1.3, http://www.uni-jena.de/ (Institut für Anglistik/Amerikanistik), course: PS: Didactic Aspects of Second Language Acqusition , language: English, abstract: During the history of foreign language teaching many methods and approaches have been developed to teach students language competence and performance. In this respect more or less successful techniques have been developed. Literature often distinguishes between methods and approaches used in language teaching. Jack Richards and Theodore Rodgers “describe an approach as a set of beliefs and principles that can be used as the basis for teaching a language”. They can be interpreted and applied individually and extended by new methods. According to Richards and Rodgers, methods are teaching systems that are specific about teaching techniques and the roles of learners and teachers. They do not allow interpretation and are acquired by the teachers through training. In the following essay mainly teaching methods will be described. Beginning with the Grammar Translation method and ending with Humanistic approaches, this essay will focus on a couple of the main foreign language teaching methods and approaches in the 19th and 20th century. First it will be described how language teaching approaches and method can be analysed. Then some techniques will be explained. Here the focus will be on the main principles of the techniques and their effect on the learner. From some minor methods and approaches only central aspects will be considered.

Productive Word-formation (adjectives) in Foreign Language Teaching: Linguistic Analysis and Pedagogical Aspects

Author : Ilona Gaul
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3638931994
Total Pages : 145 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (389 download)

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Book Synopsis Productive Word-formation (adjectives) in Foreign Language Teaching: Linguistic Analysis and Pedagogical Aspects by : Ilona Gaul

Download or read book Productive Word-formation (adjectives) in Foreign Language Teaching: Linguistic Analysis and Pedagogical Aspects written by Ilona Gaul and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2008-04 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examination Thesis from the year 2006 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Linguistics, grade: 2,0, University of Marburg (Anglistik und Amerikanistik), language: English, abstract: The following paper consisting of three main parts, namely an analytical, a didactic and an empirical section, seeks an approach to second language learners' acquisition and comprehension of certain word-formation rules. The study is based on questionnaires filled in by students of the grammar school Martin-Luther-Schule Marburg who are taking English as their special subject. The thirteenth graders are all German native speakers who have been taught English since the fifth grade. If word-formation is integrated into school lessons - at least to some extent - as curriculum and pedagogical literature demand the students, being advanced learners should have some analytical knowledge about the features of common English affixes and be able to apply their skills to the three tasks they are given in the questionnaires. These tasks demand receptive and productive skills which will be illustrated in detail in the empirical part where the survey is evaluated. The pedagogical opinion in research literature towards teaching word-formation in school will be discussed in more detail so that a comparison between theory and practice can be drawn. A vital point at issue will be the character of teaching word-formation in school. As usual, opinions are divided here. It is a major aim of this paper to defend an approach which is still fairly unpopular, namely an approach that includes productive aspects into the teaching of word-formation in school. Most educationalists still prefer an exclusively receptive approach as the discussion in the pedagogical part will show. As far as the linguistic analysis is concerned, it will be looked at adjectival suffixation. The suffixes being investigated in detail are German L1 suffixes -ig, -isch, and -lich as well as English L2 suffixes -ed, -ic