Today, questions are being raised about German as a second language that were being discussed in the BRD in the 1970s. Scholars who were involved in projects back then are now taking stock biographically and address the consequences for the present day. New ground was broken in terms of theory, research methodology and language pedagogy; socio-linguistics and second language acquisition research established themselves as new disciplines.

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Bernt Ahrenholz, University of Jena, Germany; Martina Rost-Roth, University of Augsburg, Germany