Foreign Language Teaching from a Pedagogical Lingua Franca Perspective

Authors

  • Kurt Kohn University of Tübingen

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.13133/2239-1983/17140

Abstract

According to a social constructivist understanding, foreign language teachers should enable their learners to reflectively explore their own foreign language communication and to negotiate and refine their requirements of communicative and communal success. Suitable conditions for such an experience can be provided in intercultural virtual exchanges in which ‘learners’ of different linguacultural backgrounds are engaged as ‘speakers’ and use their common target language as a pedagogical lingua franca. Two case studies involving secondary school students with English and German as target languages will be presented to illustrate the pedagogical lingua franca approach and to discuss it with regard to issues of learner agency, non-native speaker emancipation, communication monitoring, and

pedagogical mentoring.

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Published

2020-11-01

How to Cite

Kohn, K. (2020). Foreign Language Teaching from a Pedagogical Lingua Franca Perspective. Status Quaestionis, 2(19). https://doi.org/10.13133/2239-1983/17140