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Direct linkHacker, Martina – Language Learning Journal, 2008
This article investigates the vocabulary of textbooks and relates it to education policy, assessment methods and teaching methods. It considers the range of vocabulary covered by key stages 3 and 4 German foreign language textbooks for secondary schools from the beginning of the 1990s to 2006 and shows that there is an overall decrease in the…
Descriptors: Secondary School Students, Textbooks, Semantics, Second Language Learning
Peer reviewedBarbour, Stephen – Language Learning Journal, 1996
Describes how the difficulty of German has been exaggerated and discusses certain supposed problems facing English speakers in the mastering of German vocabulary. The idea that technical vocabulary of native German origin presents a serious obstacle to native English speakers arises from an erroneous view of German as a "pure" Germanic…
Descriptors: Diachronic Linguistics, Foreign Countries, German, Grammar
