“Me gustó, porque era una enseñanza viva...”: Creencias sobre aprendizaje de lenguas extranjeras de universitarios alemanes que aprenden español como lengua extranjera. Un estudio de caso

This paper, as a part of a wider research, studies a German university student's ideating about foreign language learning. She is taking a degree to become a French teacher and she is also attending an intensive Spanish course. The investigation shows a remarkable dichotomy in her thinking between «lively teaching», as experienced in her Spanish course, based on active, dynamic and communicative learning, and her studies in teacher training, with a strong focus on formal linguistic reflection and translation. As a result, she begins to question her university studies and, furthermore, her future as a secondary school language teacher.