The impact of English in Germany

Hilgendorf, Suzanne K.

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“…situated activity and psycho-biography, in researching and explaining social action, I present a sociocultural account of German-American telecollaboration. In particular, I explore the meanings that the macro features of (1) language valuation (Hilgendorf, 1996); (2) membership in electronic discourse communities (Gee, 1999); and (3) culturally determined classroom scripts (Hatch, 1992) may have for the differential functionality of virtual group work in this partnership. Differences in group functionality are reflected at the micro-interactional level in terms of (1) frequency and length of correspondence; (2) patterns of discursive behavior such as questionanswer pairs; and (3) opportunities for assisted L2 performance and negotiation of meaning.…”

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Institutional and individual dimensions of transatlantic group work in network-based language teaching

Belz¹

2001

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Network-based language teaching (NBLT) involves the application of global or local communication networks within foreign and second language education . In telecollaboration, a type of NBLT, distally located language learners use internet communication tools to support dialogue, debate, collaborative research and social interaction for the purposes of language development and cultural awareness (e.g. Kinginger et al., 1999). To date, the research on NBLT has been limited, focusing primarily on pedagogical implementations of technology and linguistic features of online communication. In particular, researchers have not robustly explored social and institutional dimensions of telecollaboration (Chapelle, 2000:217) nor have they adequately investigated the pervasive assumption that telecollaborative interaction will necessarily and unproblematically afford language learning (e.g. Kramsch and Thorne, to appear). Drawing on social realism (Layder, 1993), a sociological theory which emphasizes the inter-relationship between structure, i.e. society and institution, and agency, i.e. situated activity and psycho-biography, in researching and explaining social action, I present a sociocultural account of German-American telecollaboration. In particular, I explore the meanings that the macro features of (1) language valuation (Hilgendorf, 1996); (2) membership in electronic discourse communities (Gee, 1999); and (3) culturally determined classroom scripts (Hatch, 1992) may have for the differential functionality of virtual group work in this partnership. Differences in group functionality are reflected at the micro-interactional level in terms of (1) frequency and length of correspondence; (2) patterns of discursive behavior such as questionanswer pairs; and (3) opportunities for assisted L2 performance and negotiation of meaning. Ethnographic data (e.g. interviews, electronic and classroom discourse, surveys and participant observations) on individual psycho-biographies are interwoven with macro-level descriptions and statistics to paint a rich picture of learner behavior in intercultural telecollaboration. This project is funded by a

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Institutional and individual dimensions of transatlantic group work in network-based language teaching

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2001

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“…Ammon (1995) also concedes that German has now lost its intellectual status as the international language of science. Hilgendorf (1996) confirms that the German scientific community is increasingly publishing first or solely in English, if necessary coining any required new terminology in English, not German. Hilgendorf also lists a number of motivations for the growing appeal of English to German speakers, including perceptions of precision and brevity as well as modernization.…”

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Predicting challenges to English as a global language in the 21st century

Bruthiaux

2002

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The worldwide dominance of English is such that only catastrophic upheaval could seemingly threaten it in the near future. In the longer term, an emerging power (eg, China) may come to challenge American supremacy and with it the dominant position of English. However, even in the event of such a realignment, the language of that emerging power (eg, Chinese) may not succeed in arresting the advantage English already derives from critical mass. To have any chance of global spread, a challenger would need to possess structural characteristics -namely, minimal inflectional morphology, nontonal phonology, and a non-logographic script -that would facilitate its acquisition by individuals with largely utilitarian motivations. Alternatively, to evolve these characteristics, a challenger would need to be subjected to minimal standardization and be allowed the freedom to accommodate userdriven change, including indigenization. Finally, it would need to be perceived as a vehicle for modernizing values. While hypothetical challengers (eg, Chinese, French, German, Spanish, Japanese, Russian, Arabic, or Esperanto) all exhibit some of these characteristics, only English exhibits all of them at present and for the foreseeable future. For these reasons, the worldwide dominance of English is likely to survive even a hypothetical passing of the American Era.

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“…With respect to the use of English in advertising Piller (2003:174) states that «Germany…can easily be regarded as the most Americanized of European countries…In a corpus of 658 commercials broadcast in 1999, 73.4% made use of a language other than German…and that language was English in the majority of cases.» She further states that English is used to promote a social stereotype. The high incidence of American English in German advertising was earlier noted by Hilgendorf (1996), who also tells us that Germans have easy access to English language television shows, including daily broadcasts such as CNN Live and the David Letterman Show. She regards the media as a major source of English loanwords into the language.…”

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The Influence of Attitude on the Treatment of Interdentals in Loanwords: Ill-performed Importations

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2012

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This article treats cross-linguistic variation in the treatment of /θ, ð/ in loanwords. We maintain that the phonological adaptation of /θ, ð/, cross-linguistically, is to /t, d/, that substitution by /f, v/, which occurs in a few languages, is based on faulty perception of the interdental fricatives, and that adaptation to /s, z/, which notably occurs in Japanese, European French and German, represents a flawed production-based attempt to import interdentals. We suggest that such flawed importation occurs when foreign sounds are difficult to produce but the source language holds sufficient prestige that it is deemed important to do so. This proposal is supported by data from, e.g., English, Greek and Classical Arabic. The treatment of interdentals parallels that of the difficult French phoneme / / in loanwords in Fula, which also yields a flawed production-based importation, lending further support to our analysis of /θ, ð/ to /s, z/ as flawed importations.

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The impact of English in Germany

Abstract: Following on Susan Ridder's article ‘English in Dutch’ (ET44, Oct 95) and Pieter Loonen's and Ross Smith's articles on English in the European Union (ET46, Apr 96), a detailed survey of the effect in recent years of English on German and the Germans

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Institutional and individual dimensions of transatlantic group work in network-based language teaching

Institutional and individual dimensions of transatlantic group work in network-based language teaching

Predicting challenges to English as a global language in the 21st century

The Influence of Attitude on the Treatment of Interdentals in Loanwords: Ill-performed Importations

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