Sprachvermittlung in der Verantwortung der Volkshochschulen. Eine Herausforderung an die fachdidaktische Qualität des Sprachunterrichts

Didactical quality is a crucial precondition if all citizens of the European Union are to be able to develop multilingual skills. Here it is in particular adult education centres which have the task of training their teachers and offering them continuing education so as to make possible optimum didactical classroom instruction. This article shows that applied linguistics and research on teaching languages can provide an important impetus here. The author moreover issues a plea for specialised didactics oriented towards lifelong learning. »Learning teaching« is accordingly identified as a key objective of instruction in foreign languages.