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Thesis - Addenda - Library - List if Journals - Forum - Case Study

My thesis was finished in 2003. Since then science has moved on and this is manifested in the relevant literature. I have therefore decided to conduct some literuature research which goes back (mainly) to the year 2000. This literature research is documented in "Addenda". Naturally, during this research I came across plenty of books and journals and I thought it a good idea to list these in a "library". The interested reader can there use the search engine and can search for author and words that he expects to occur in the title of a book or journal as well as the year to have the latest developments. Since this search engine cannot provide a list of all the journals I have used, a separate list is provided. It is the nature of these hings that they can never be completed. They will be constantly updated. Due to the vast amount of literature I had to select, this selection is arbitrary and does not imply a particular importance compared with those that could not be included.

During this literature research it occured to me that there is a deplorable lack of longitudinal research of what is going on in the classroom, especially when the teaching of vocabulary with the keyword method is involved. I have therefore embarked on conducting a case study in this vein which will span three semesters, the length of a full course. Since I am going to do this anyway, I am also developing a little grammar booklet for German learners of English which I will usein this course.

There is also a forum for interested readers who would like to contribute to this endeavor by providing suggestions, critique and the sharing of their own experiences.

The case study will start in February 2012.

Updated: 26. 01. 2012