Breindl E (2022)
Publication Language: German
Publication Type: Journal article, Original article
Publication year: 2022
Book Volume: 31
Pages Range: 87-103
Journal Issue: 31
Amongst current grammatical theories Valency Grammar is the most prominent – perhaps the
only one – that has been widely adopted in the context of teaching German as a foreign language.
Nevertheless, teaching materials, though claiming a valency-theoretic approach, nowadays
mostly show a very reduced version. Besides, the postulated superiority of valency grammar in
foreign language teaching has never been empirically proved. Therefore, data from learner productions
can provide evidence. In this paper I present data from learner corpora, showing that
errors occurring in learner language can’t be properly explained nor prevented by valency grammar.
The conclusion is that valency grammar in learner-contexts should be abandoned. Alternatives
are discussed.
APA:
Breindl, E. (2022). Valenzgrammatik für DaF auf dem Prüfstand: ein Auslaufmodell. Linguistische Berichte, 31(31), 87-103.
MLA:
Breindl, Eva. "Valenzgrammatik für DaF auf dem Prüfstand: ein Auslaufmodell." Linguistische Berichte 31.31 (2022): 87-103.
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