Challenges of Modern Foreign Language Teaching - Reflections and Analyses

The present volume deals with some of the challenges that modern foreign language teaching will face in the near future. These challenges are presented with regard to various domains of language teaching, e.g. mobile learning, the overall organisation of learning environments, innovative language teaching methods, internationalisation and language mediation. Techno­logical development and the rapid spread of computers, smartphones and social media are described and analysed as well as instrumental scaffolding, the multilingual classroom, the multilingual learner, pronunciation, and learner motivation.

Editor

Dr. Thomas Tinnefeld is a full professor of Applied Languages at Saarland University of Applied Sciences in Saarbrücken (Germany). His research interests are languages for specific purposes, grammar and grammaticography, writing research and interculturality. He is the editor of the Journal of Linguistics and Language Teaching.

With the Collaboration of:

Dr. Ronald Kresta is an associate professor of English for specific purposes and director of the language centre at THM University of Applied Sciences in Gießen (Germany). His major research interests include error analysis, pronunciation research and pronunciation teaching as well as the application of these areas to EFL teaching.

Dr. Jozsef Szakos is an associate professor currently teaching in the Department of German in Fu Jen Catholic University in Taipei, Taiwan. He also works as a professor in the Department of Asian Studies of Palacky University in Olomouc, Czech Republic. Previously, he worked as an associate professor at the Department of Chinese and Bilingual Studies at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University.