Szenariobasierter Kommunikations­ unterricht an Fachhochschulen

Abstract

The role of language teaching in technical curricula finds itself today at a crossroads. First and foreign language training per se are less a priority than is communicative competence in a professional and scientific environment. A project team at the ZHAW School of Engineering has therefore embarked on the design of a functionally defined, scenario-based learning concept within a communication curriculum in which the roles of the two languages, German and English, are understood as complementary and even profitably engaged in the same classroom and as part of one learning experience.