Pedagogical linguistics in Romance
Feldhausen, Ingo (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (França). Analyse et Traitement Informatique de la Langue Française-ATILF)

Date:	2022
Abstract:	Linguists tend to underestimate their educational and societal role, but linguistics matters. Therefore, this article is a plea for linguists to act accordingly and to fulfill their important role boldly and creatively. By dealing with pedagogical aspects of Romance linguistics, an area which I call Romance Pedagogical Linguistics (RPL), I highlight the crucial role of linguistics in various pedagogical contexts of Romance languages and how all involved parties benefit from a strong, confident, and open-minded linguistic component. I assume a wide definition of RPL, thus including not only foreign and heritage language learning and teaching, but also teaching of linguistics in higher education. I demonstrate how Romance Pedagogical Linguistics could look in practice with five examples. In order to illustrate how language pedagogy can benefit from linguistics and what the task of linguistics is in this regard, I discuss subjunctives as well as intonation in Spanish and French foreign language acquisition, and I refer to work on Spanish as a heritage language. Subsequently, I will exemplify two concrete implementations of RPL in higher education by using the method of research-led learning in advanced courses of linguistics dealing with intonation as well as by presenting the Hourglass-Portfolio-Method.
Note:	Acknowledgments. Special mention should be made of the structural and financial support of the large-scale pedagogical program "Starker Start ins Studium" of Goethe Univrsity Frankfurt (see fn. 20 for details), of which I was a member from 2012 to 2020 and without which I would not have been able to implement my ideas on pedagogy in higher education. Financially, the work presented here was also supported by winning the 1822 Award for Excellent Teaching, which was awarded to me in 2019 by Goethe University Frankfurt for, among other things, developing and implementing the Hourglass-Portfolio-Method.
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Language:	Anglès
Document:	Article ; recerca ; Versió publicada
Subject:	Pedagogical linguistics ; Formal linguistics ; Language pedagogy ; Higher education ; Romance languages ; Heritage languages
Published in:	Isogloss, Vol. 8 Núm. 5 (2022) , p. 1-39 (Articles) , ISSN 2385-4138

Adreça original: https://revistes.uab.cat/isogloss/article/view/v8-n5-feldhausen
DOI: 10.5565/rev/isogloss.231

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