# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/wolfgang-butzkamm
# Generated: 2026-08-15T14:35:02.789Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/wolfgang-butzkamm"
name: "Wolfgang Butzkamm"
slug: "wolfgang-butzkamm"
description: "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."
tagline: "German linguist"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Germany"
  isoCode: "DE"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1938-11-11"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           36.93
  momentum:             0
  historical:           6.336933333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Wolfgang Butzkamm"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%81%D9%88%D9%84%D9%81%D8%BA%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%B9_%D8%A8%D9%88%D8%AA%D8%B3%D9%83%D8%A7%D9%85"
    title: "فولفغانع بوتسكام"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%81%D9%88%D9%84%D9%81%D8%AC%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%B9_%D8%A8%D9%88%D8%AA%D8%B3%D9%83%D8%A7%D9%85"
    title: "فولفجانع بوتسكام"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolfgang_Butzkamm"
    title: "Wolfgang Butzkamm"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolfgang_Butzkamm"
    title: "Wolfgang Butzkamm"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolfgang_Butzkamm"
    title: "Wolfgang Butzkamm"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "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"
    title: "Буцкамм, Вольфганг"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q71138"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump