“Too complicated”, “too much lost time” or “I don’t have any control over what my pupils are doing there” – this is how some teachers spontaneously react to the idea of using task-based language ...

Learners with self-regulation skills learn more efficiently – at school and later in life, too. But is that possible with fewer teachers? There’s a shortage of schoolteachers in Germany and worldwide.

The idea that we have brains hardwired with a mental template for learning grammar—famously espoused by Noam Chomsky of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology—has dominated linguistics for almost ...