Goal: The idea of BGE is to allow learners to quickly acquire a level of global communicative competence characterized by tolerance and empathy.
Background: BGE departs from the concept of English as a means of communication between people with different mother tongues. BGE is derived from observations on successful communication between non-natives.
Language System: BGE includes only 20 grammar rules and a basic vocabulary of 750 words (unbound to any specific single culture). Plus, learners are asked from the very beginning to do dictionary work and collect another 250 words related to individual needs. Word-formation rules and other strategies enable learners to denote things for which one of the communication partners doesn’t know the name. BGE includes communicative strategies for the most basic situations, which shall allow learners to speak empathically and respectfully with others and which include solutions for communicative breakdowns. BGE gives a linguistic, social and methodological basis on which learners can later fine-tune their language skills. Cf. also the video explanation on YouTube (Part 1 and Part 2)
Contact: Please feel free to contact Joachim Grzega (joachim.grzega@ku-eichstaett.de) if you have any questions.
Projects: elementary schools (with comments on video clips in English/mit Kommentaren zu Video-Clips auf deutsch), adult learner groups, self-educated learners (autodidacts)
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BGE Learning and Teaching Material |
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BGE in the Press |
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For self-teaching:
1. Free copy of the book Welcome to the World for self-taught learners of all languages. Plus, ASEcoLi offers a CD and an accompanying book in German (sample).
For primary schools: 1. ASEcoLi offers materials for first-year learners at elementary schools (age group 7-10): Hello World!. There are two volumes:
2. Coaching Offer for Elementary Schools For adult learner groups: For adult learner groups, ASEcoLi offers the book Welcome, Global Players (currently only for learners of German mother tongue) (a href="WGP-Dt-Sample.pdf">sample). |
BGE
sound files: All English examples from the sound
chapter are available here as
audio files (*.WAV): |
a report on primary school learners' performance after one year of BGE (Joachim Grzega, Journal for EuroLinguistiX, 2008) comments on teaching English as a lingua franca incl. BGE (Joachim Grzega, Onomasiology Online, 2008. a report on 12 BGE lessons with primary school learners (Joachim Grzega & Marion Schöner, Journal for EuroLinguistiX, 2007) review of the model Globish and presentation of BGE (Joachim Grzega, Journal for EuroLinguistiX, 2006) article on the didactic model Lernen durch Lehren (= Learning by Teaching) with a note on BGE (Joachim Grzega, Humanising Language Teaching, 2006) article on the theoretical frame of BGE (Joachim Grzega, Journal for EuroLinguistiX, 2005) article on European, International and Basic Global English (Joachim Grzega, Journal for EuroLinguistiX, 2005) |
report in the periodical of the German teacher association bpv
report in the periodical The Linguist April/May 2009 report on a lecture in the regional paper Lindauer Zeitung 7 Apr 2009 report on BGE in the regional newspaper Schwäbische Zeitung 6 Feb 2009 report on BGE in the regional newspaper Nürnberger Nachrichten 2 Dec 2008 report on the elementary school project in the news of the regional TV station TV Oberfranken on 25 June 08 as well as a note on TV Oberfranken's website report on BGE in the Frankfurter Rundschau 21 May 08 report on BGE on Radio Eins Berlin, 12 Apr 2008 ((mp3)) report on BGE on Radio Bayern 1, 9 Apr. 2008 ((mp3)) report on BGE in the German regional daily Nordbayerischer Kurier 3 Apr 08 report on BGE in the German weekly Der Spiegel 14/2008 (on-line) () |
Last updated: 4 January 2010
