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iberica-298	Voss, Bernd	20 years of AELFE: LSP, and language learning and teaching in Higher Education - Some personal reflections from Germany 	2012-01-02	10	.pdf	application/pdf	3641	93	37	In fact, as an anglicist myself I may be allowed to suggest that the current over-emphasis on English, in Germany, to have all secondary schools start with English, to push English into primary education, to have more and more kindergardens introduce English programmes, and at the other end to see that well over half of language teaching at universities is still devoted to English, results in a linguistic mono-culture which we would do well to see with a critical distance1. To illustrate from an example of professional language use here, many students of the philologies go into language teaching, and as a teacher trainer I have often observed that students even with a reasonable general command of the target language have great difficulties in coping with the linguistic challenges of conducting classroom business in a foreign language, to negotiate meaning with their learners, that is to modify their language to take their learners from where 20 yEArS OF AELFE Ibérica 24 (2012): 129-138 131 they are, to correct and criticise, but also to encourage their learners, etc.	cache/iberica-298.pdf	txt/iberica-298.txt