English in Germany: contact, spread and attitudes

Hilgendorf, Suzanne K.

doi:10.1111/j.1467-971x.2007.00498.x

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“…Taking into account other studies demonstrating the growing use of English as an additional language in German education (Hilgendorf 2005;Erling/ Hilgendorf 2006) and business (Hilgendorf 2010a), as well as overviews of the history of contact with the language (Hilgendorf 2007(Hilgendorf , 2010b, this study provides further evidence of the expanding role of English in Germany, if not other European countries, and the language's shifting status from that of a foreign language to an additional language (L2) as reflected in the social reality of its users and uses. In an additional observation, it should be noted that this …”

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Transnational Media and the Use of English: The Case of Cinema and Motion Picture Titling Practices in Germany /

Hilgendorf¹

2013

Sociolinguistica

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Transnationale Medien und der Gebrauch des Englischen -am Beispiel von Kino und Filmtiteln in DeutschlandDieser Beitrag untersucht die Beziehung zwischen transnationalen Medien und der Verbreitung des Englischen am Beispiel des traditionellen Mediums Kino in Deutschland, dem größten Land Europas, das zu Kachru's (1990) "Expanding Circle" der englischen Sprache gehört. Die Diskussion erstreckt sich auf die weltweite Geschichte des Kinos seit dem frühen 20. Jahrhundert einschließlich der Faktoren, die zum Aufstieg Hollywoods zur international dominierenden Macht beigetragen haben, auch in Deutschland. Hieran anschließend richtet sie sich auf den Sprachgebrauch, wo bei Einführung des Tonfilms die US-Studios bei aller Dominanz Hollywoods rasch auf den Bedarf reagierten, die Filme sprachlich an örtliche Gegebenheiten anzupassen. Diese langjährige Politik der Synchronisierung und Untertitelung von Filmen setzt sich bis heute fort. Dennoch findet bei all dem, wie die Praxis der Filmbetitelung in Deutschland erkennen lässt, auch die englische Sprache Anwendung. Die detaillierte Analyse der Betitelung der in Deutschland beliebtesten Filme über einen Zeitraum von 20 Jahren zeigt ein Kontinuum des Sprachgebrauchs zwischen den beiden Polen Deutsch und Englisch, indem die beiden Sprachen entweder alternativ verwendet werden, oder in kreativen und innovativen Kombinationen, bei denen der sonstige Gegensatz zwischen ihnen verschwimmt.

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Transnational Media and the Use of English: The Case of Cinema and Motion Picture Titling Practices in Germany /

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2013

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“…The role of English in Germany has been studied by Stefanowitsch (2002) and Hilgendorf (2007). The role of English in Germany has been studied by Stefanowitsch (2002) and Hilgendorf (2007).…”

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Evaluating the suitability of teaching EIL for the German classroom

Syrbe

2018

Int J App Linguistics

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English has developed into a global language, spoken in numerous varieties and used as a lingua franca worldwide. Consequently, scholars have argued for a shift in English language teaching to an EIL‐oriented approach. This paper examines the suitability of this approach for German secondary schools and shows its relevance for English language teaching in Germany. It further investigates to what extent such an approach can be implemented in Germany based on the curriculum of Germany's most populous state. While the approach ties in well with some components of the curriculum, many elements of teaching English will have to be reconsidered, so that the English classrooms in Germany can move away from the native speaker model towards teaching EIL.

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“…Hilgendorf (2007) suggested that although there are numerous factors opposing the spread of English, including a lengthy history of negative attitudes towards foreign linguistic elements, in reality, judging from the extent to which English is used in society every day, the positive attitudes clearly succeed in overcoming whatever prejudices that society has towards learning English. Thus it is important that even students in Malaysia should have a positive attitude towards English language so that they may not be influenced by any antagonism towards the language by any sector of the society.…”

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Attitude, Parental Encouragement and Perception of the Importance of English in English Language Learning

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Mohamad³

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This study investigated the students' perception of the importance of English language amongst a sample of 150 Upper Six students from a population of 755 students from six schools in the district of Marang, Terengganu. Also studied was whether their attitude towards learning English language is positive and whether they receive sufficient parental encouragement and support in their English language learning. It was found that the students were well aware of the importance of English language and also had a very positive attitude towards English Language learning. The parental encouragement and support scores also recorded a high total mean. In all three instances the sample means were well above the mid-point means indicating that the sample means fell in the higher halves of the mean scores. This implies that students are well aware of the importance of English language, are very positive about learning English language and receive more than adequate parental encouragement and support in their English language learning. Correlation analysis showed that there was a significant and positive relationship between the students' perception of the importance of English language and their attitude towards learning the language. Since the students' attitude and parental encouragement and support seem to be satisfactory, future researchers should investigate whether the curriculum offered is suitable for rural students.

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English in Germany: contact, spread and attitudes

Cited by 61 publications

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Transnational Media and the Use of English: The Case of Cinema and Motion Picture Titling Practices in Germany /

Transnational Media and the Use of English: The Case of Cinema and Motion Picture Titling Practices in Germany /

Evaluating the suitability of teaching EIL for the German classroom

Attitude, Parental Encouragement and Perception of the Importance of English in English Language Learning

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