Teaching staff

ERICH HUBER

Knowledge area

German Philology

Department

English, German and Translation and Interpretation Studies

Centre

Faculty of Arts

Electronic mail

erich.huber@ehu.eus

Degree in Romanic Philology and Political Science from Paris-Lodron-Universität Salzburg. After receiving a research grant from the MEC to expand studies at the University of Valencia, in 1994 he received his Ph.D. with cum laudem with the thesis Die Generation der literarischen Normalisierung. Soziolinguistik im Neuen Valencianischen Roman. In Austria he taught Spanish and German as a foreign language at the Johannes Kepler Universität Linz, among other institutions. Commissioned by the Austrian Ministry of Education, he gave seminars on the methodology of teaching German, in Austria and several countries in Eastern Europe. In 1987, he obtained the title of Official Sworn Interpreter of Spanish, enrolled in the Landesgericht Linz.



Since joining the UPV/EHU in 1995, he has participated in eight research projects, being the principal researcher in the project Study of the connection in the German language for its didactic application for Spanish speakers. His lines of research, teaching and publications are focused on the area of Applied Linguistics, especially Textual Linguistics, Syntax (connection, topology) and Linguistic Variation (dialects and other synchronic varieties of German), all in the fields of teaching German as a foreign language and translation.



In his German language and linguistic classes he uses the method Lernen durch Lehren (Learning by teaching) according to which students acquire responsibility for their own learning process.