Jean-Pol Martin (born 1943,

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) studied

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for foreign language teachers in

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, and developed a

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called

learning by teaching In the field of pedagogy, learning by teaching (German: ''Lernen durch Lehren'', short LdL) is a method of teaching in which students are made to learn material and prepare lessons to teach it to the other students. There is a strong emphasis on ac ...

. He spent most of his career at

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and was a

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there when he retired in 2008.

Biography

Martin was born in 1943 in Paris and went to Germany in 1968. He studied

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and French in order to become a teacher at a German

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, and also became an instructor in

at the

(Bavaria) in 1980. He earned his

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in 1969, then studied German and Romance languages at

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from 1969 to 1975, then worked as a trainee teacher in French language from 1975 to 1977 at Albrecht Dürer Gymnasium in Nürnberg. He then taught French and German at the Gymnasium Höchstadt/Aisch from 1977 to 1980. In 1980 he started working at

, training French teachers. Simultaneously he studied language acquisition and pedagogy at

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, and earned his Ph.D. there in 1985. His thesis on "Didactics of the French Language and Literature" was accepted in 1985. In 1994, after his

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, he was appointed

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at Catholic University of Eichstätt and in 2000 he was appointed

. He established the

method (german: Lernen durch Lehren) for students to learn by teaching their peers. The method became widely used in Germany in secondary education, and in the 1990s it was further formalized and began to be used in universities as well, and has spread to other disciplines and other countries. By 2008 Martin had retired, and although he remained active

Joachim Grzega Joachim Grzega (born 9 September 1971) is a German linguist. He studied English and French at the Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt, University of Utah in Salt Lake City, Paris-Sorbonne University and the University of Graz. He has tau ...

took the lead in developing and promulgating LdL.

Books

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References

External links

Jean-Pol Martin at Google ScholarLernen durch Lehren websiteAutobiography
at

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Academic influenceJean-Pol Martin - English Language Teacher Interview #16, ELT Under The Covers Podcast, 2022
* Martin, J. P. & Kolbe, S. (2023, May 21). Learning by Teaching nterview Seitwerk. https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL4hofRriFR15Xa0fr4VFvhj-_bMExnnbm {{DEFAULTSORT:Martin, Jean-Pol German educational theorists 20th-century educational theorists 1943 births Living people Academic staff of the Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt