Wolfgang Butzkamm, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Wolfgang Butzkamm

German linguist

Date of Birth: 11-Nov-1938

Place of Birth: Hagen, Free State of Prussia, Germany

Profession: university teacher, linguist

Nationality: Germany

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio

Wolfgang Butzkamm (born 11 November 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 foreign language teaching is modelled after the natural acquisition of a first language (L1), as in the direct method (education) which was also called the natural method.