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"Buenos dias", "buenas noches" -- this was the first words in a foreign language I heard in my life, as a three-year old boy growing up in developing post-war Western Germany, where the first gastarbeiters had arrived from Spain. Fascinated by the strange sounds, I tried to get to know some more languages, the only opportunity being TV courses of English and French -- there was no foreign language education for pre-teen school children in Germany yet in those days. Read more

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Name:	Julie  Marie Winter (IPA: Julie Winter)
Institution:	Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf
Email:	click here to access email
State and/or Country:	WA USA
Linguistic Field(s):	Applied Linguistics General Linguistics Pragmatics Syntax Translation Ling & Literature Language Acquisition
Specialty:	Historical Linguistics
Subject Language(s):	English German
Language Family(ies):	Indo-European
Selected Publications:	Grammar and Linguistics: A Reader Responds (article on importance of teaching English grammar from a linguistic perspective) In 1945 They Were Children: Flight and Expulsion in the Life of a Generation (book translation) Memories of Kreisau (book translation) The Power of Solitude: My Life in the German Resistance (book translation)
Courses Taught:	English Grammar Writing for Academic Purposes Translation History of English German language and Literature Literature in Translation
Reviewer of:	Speech Acts in the History of English (LL Issue 19.3845) An Introduction to English Sentence Structure (LL Issue 21.1076)
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