Zur Bildung der Texterfahrung und Herausbildung der interpretativen Kompetenz im Wirtschaftsdeutsch-Unterricht

Abstract

During the FLT-“communicative turn” the receptive capacities were not abandoned. They underwent a reevaluation. A legitimate goal of the FLT/here “DaF”/teaching of German as a foreign language is hence the development of a comprehensive interpretative competence, which ranges from verbal to non-verbal and paraverbal. The present paper looks at this interpretative competence as a basically textual competence within the framework of the FLT-usual text work, gradually built as result of practiced and consolidated interpretative skills (perceptive, selective, pondering, comparative, contrastive). The paper discusses aspects of the resulting interdisciplinary area of reference: foreign language didactics is involved from the point of view of the functional text genres with their external and internal elements in the production of discourse structures. The economic point of view delivered as an extra-linguistic dimension is brought about by the all-encompassing advertising communication and specifically by the business-related letter writing, the two FLT-domains the paper is dealing with.