Claire kramsch biography
Kramsch, Claire - Hellenic American University.
Speaker Biography
Claire Kramsch: Looking Back and Looking Forward ─ A Personal Reflection
Emigrating as I did in the sixties from France to the U.S and moving from French to American academia in the teaching of German as a foreign language confronted me with fundamental questions regarding language, knowledge, culture and identity.
Who were my American students?
Claire kramsch biography
What was their relation to West-Germans? East-Germans? The newly emerging field of Applied Linguistics was for me a theoretical and a practical godsend. It provided me with the international, cross-disciplinary and cross-cultural perspective from which to look at my teaching practice.
Even though it was at the time heavily oriented towards the teaching of English, it opened my eyes to the psycho-and sociolinguistic bases of second language acquisition, and to the ideological, social and anthropological aspects of language use.
It helped me make my peace with my status as a foreign professional in a country that I had