Do Our Students Learn What We Teach Them?

Autor/inn/en	Boss, Bettina; Jansen, Louise
Titel	Do Our Students Learn What We Teach Them?
Quelle	In: Babel, 38 (2003) 2, S.26-30 (6 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0005-3503
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; Second Language Instruction; German; French; Teaching Methods; Form Classes (Languages); Language Teachers; Educational Researchers; Cooperation; Comparative Analysis; Course Content; Outcomes of Education; Australia; Switzerland (Geneva) + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Fremdsprachenunterricht; Deutscher; Französisch; Teaching method; Lehrmethode; Unterrichtsmethode; Analytischer Sprachbau; Language teacher; Sprachunterricht; Erziehungswissenschaftler; Erziehungswissenschaftlerin; Co-operation; Kooperation; Kursprogramm; Lernleistung; Schulerfolg; Australien
Abstract	Teachers like to believe that students learn what they are taught. Following up on research that questions this belief, a large-scale study of the acquisition of German as a foreign language by French-speaking school students in Geneva (DiGS, or "Deutsch in Genfer Schulen," "German in Geneva schools") further explored the question with some significant new results that could benefit foreign language teaching generally. In an exemplary collaboration between researchers and teachers, the project team focused on grammar and compared what students were taught (according to the school curriculum) with what they used productively. The results of the project showed not merely major differences between teaching and learning, but also the different ways in which the learners carved their own paths. In continuing collaboration with teachers, the project team complemented its findings by developing practical proposals for curriculum change that are currently being implemented in Geneva schools. As the outcomes of the project, published in Diehl et al. (2000), are not well known outside Europe, this article endeavours to present and discuss them and thus make them available to Australian teachers of German and languages other than English in general. (Contains 1 table.) (ERIC).
Anmerkungen	Australian Federation of Modern Language Teachers Associations. Faculty of Education and Social Work, University of Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia. Tel: +61-29351-2022; e-mail: president@afmlta.asn.au; e-mail: editor@afmlta.asn.au; Web site: http://www.afmlta.asn.au
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10