Developing Multilingual Competence in Academia: teaching German as L3 to Polish Students of English Department

• Autores: Dorota Szczêsniak
• Localización: Exedra: Revista Científica, ISSN-e 1646-9526, Nº. 7, 2013, págs. 136-144
• Idioma: inglés
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  • The paper addresses the issue of developing multilingual competence in academia on the example of teaching German as L3 to students of English Philology in Poland. A thesis is put forward that despite a serious risk of negative transfer from L2 (English), instructors of German as a Foreign Language (GFL) in tertiary educational settings can largely benefit from resorting to students´ linguistic competence and learning strategies developed during L2 instruction. Pedagogical implications and teaching suggestions presented in the paper result from the author´s experience of teaching GFL to undergraduate students of English Department at one of the Polish universities.