Personal data
Place of birth	Elmshorn, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany
Date of birth	February 19, 1937
Citizenship	German
Education
1957-1962	Universities of Hamburg, Freiburg, Edinburgh
1960-1961	Assistant Teacher, Plympton Grammmar School, Plympton, Devon, GB
1962	"Staatsexamen für das Lehramt an Gymnasien" (teaching certificate – equivalent to M.A.), Freiburg University, Germany majors: English, Physical Education minors: Philosphie, Education
1963-1964	"Wissenschaftlicher Assistent" (Assistant Professor) Freiburg University, Germany
1964-1965	British Council Research Scholar, Phonetics Department Edinburgh University, GB
1965	PhD, Freiburg University
1966-1968	"Habilitandenstipendiat der DFG, "Privatdozent, Universitätsdozent",Freiburg University, Germany
1969-	Full Professor of English at Kiel University, Germany

 

 

Professional interests and major areas of research:

English linguistics, phonetics, phonology, intonation, psycholinguistics, first and second language acquisition, language pathology, language contact, foreign language teaching, bilingual education, immersion teaching, foreign languages at preschool.

 

Major publications:

Englische Satzintonation. 1965 (PhD)

Linguistische Untersuchungen zum Parkinsonismus. 1970 (Habilitation)

Natürliche Zweisprachigkeit: Probleme, Aufgaben, Perspektiven. 1974

Studies in second language acquisition. 1979

Learning a second language. 1981

Papers on Language Acquisition, Language Learning and Language Teaching. 1983

Einführung in die Psycholinguistik. Ismaning: Hueber, 1988. Reprinted 1993 as: Psycholinguistik - Eine Einführung in die Lehr-und Lernbarkeit von Sprachen.

Bilinguale Unterrichtserprobung in Schleswig-Holstein. 1994

Lernen in einer fremden Sprache: Grundzüge des bilingualen Unterrichts. Ismaning: Hueber, 1995.