Wolfgang Butzkamm (born in 1938) is Professor Emeritus of English as a Foreign Language at Aachen University, Germany. He is credited with the development of a principled and systematic approach to the role of the mother tongue in foreign language teaching which radically differs from a target-language-only philosophy prevailing in many countries. For him, traditional monolingualism is an instance of a more general naturalistic fallacy which is committed when second-language (L2) learning is modelled after the natural learning of a first language (L1).
Read more about Wolfgang Butzkamm: Life, Enlightened Monolingualism and The Principle of Dual Comprehension
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