Abstract:In recent years, the teaching of foreign languages in schools, universities and other institutions involved with language learning has faced several changes and new orientations. The main reason for these changes certainly is the Common European Framework of Languages, published in 2001 by the European Council. In Germany we additionally develop new educational standards, considering as representative examples English and French as first foreign languages taught in our school system (Kultusministerkonferenz (e… Show more
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