EFL Teaching in Saxon Secondary Education. Language Construction and Foreign Language Teaching

Master's Thesis from the year 2021 in the subject Didactics - Common Didactics, Educational Objectives, Methods, grade: 1.7, Technical University of Chemnitz (English and American Studies), language: English, abstract: Throughout this thesis, extensive literature research aims at answering the question of what benefits teaching language construction processes can bring to teaching English as a foreign language. As a more practical part, a curriculum is developed based on insights from the literature and the Saxon state curriculum as a framework for all teaching in Saxon state schools. After the presentation of the curriculum, this thesis discusses its content and the theoretical background, justifies the decisions in its development gives an honest overview of its advantages and challenges. In the conclusion, a presentation of limitations and implications completes the thesis.

Language construction describes the intentional development of a language. Even though this is often used for fictional works or linguistic experiments, the processes of language construction could also be used for natural languages. Not only does language construction require and foster the ability to reflect on language, meaning metalinguistic awareness; but it leads learners to an active engagement with the language. Learners would be given the toolset of metalinguistic awareness as an approach to all languages and language features they encounter.