These days there is a movement to adapt English as an official language in Korea as well as in ]apan regardless of the danger that our mother tongue Korean or ] apanese could degenerate into a so-called museum language, i.e., dead language. The assertion that globalisation refers to the age of English forces us to consider why and for what we teach and leam the German language. In the age of globalisation, the horizon of multicultural understanding should be broadened. The English-only politics allows us only one world-view or ideology and we will encounter a really monotonous and devastated culture-landscape. In this context, teaching German can contribute to multicultural understanding.

I. 들어가는 말
II. 독일어 교육 현황
III. 외국어 학습의 요인
　1. 사용자 수
　2. 경제적인 힘
　3. 정치적 힘, 외교적 힘
　4. 국제기관에서의 기능 - 외교적 힘
　5. 문화적 힘
　6. 외국어학습의 난이도
　7. 가장 배우기 어려운 외국어
IV. EU에서의 다언어, 다문화주의
V. EU와 독일어, 독일인의 모국어의식
VI. 맺는 말
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Zusammenfassung

• 정시호(경북대학교) | Chong, Si-Ho