# Wolfgang Butzkamm

> Wolfgang Butzkamm is Professor Emeritus of English as a foreign language at Aachen University, Germany. He is credited with the development of a principled and systematic approach to the role of the mother tongue in foreign language teaching which radically differs from a target-language-only philosophy prevailing in many countries. For him, traditional monolingualism is an instance of a more general naturalistic fallacy which is committed when foreign language teaching is modelled after the natural acquisition of a first language (L1), as in the direct method (education) which was also called the natural method.

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## Identity
- **Profile type:** Writer / Author
- **Category:** Writers
- **Country:** Germany
- **Born:** 1938-11-11
- **Status:** living
- **Gender:** male

## Bio

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## Fame
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## Sources
- [Wolfgang Butzkamm](https://vo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolfgang_Butzkamm)
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- [Wolfgang Butzkamm](https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolfgang_Butzkamm)
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- [Wolfgang Butzkamm](https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolfgang_Butzkamm)
- [Буцкамм, Вольфганг](https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%91%D1%83%D1%86%D0%BA%D0%B0%D0%BC%D0%BC%2C_%D0%92%D0%BE%D0%BB%D1%8C%D1%84%D0%B3%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B3)
- [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q71138)

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