Munich works: German perspectives on the history of language learning and teaching

Abstract

ABSTRACT Most German research in the field of the history of Foreign language education (termed Fremdsprachendidaktik there) has been done by Munich based scholars and published in the Münchener Arbeiten zur Fremdsprachen-Forschung edited by Friederike Klippel. This paper reviews the four Ph.D. theses and two anthologies published since 2012 collectively and thus shows the German perspectives on the history of foreign language education. It also gives suggestions of aspects in which the field might develop historiographically.