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Grammar Games and Bilingual Blends

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 October 2020

Claire Kramsch
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Grammar Games in the Classroom

It looked like an error of vocabulary. The class was reading a text by the east german author Thomas Brussig, Wasserfarben, and practicing the indirect discourse subjunctive. In the text, an East German school director, Schneider, summons a student to his office to reprimand him on his lack of motivation:

Society places … high expectations on the graduating senior…. A basic expectation is that he engages in meaningful academic study and that he personally contributes to the national defense by standing up for the state.

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The Changing Profession
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PMLA , Volume 124 , Issue 3 , May 2009 , pp. 887 - 895
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Copyright © Modern Language Association of America, 2009

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