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umwälzen

English translation: review


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German term or phrase:umwälzen
English translation:review
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Social Sciences - Education / Pedagogy
German term or phrase: umwälzen
Piephos Wertschätzung des Storytelling wurde 2007 postum durch eine Veröffentlichung unterstrichen, die nicht mehr von ihm selbst herausgegeben werden konnte. Darin heißt es, dass im Frühbeginn "Geschichten [...] fast alle sprachlichen Phänomene der Anfangsstufe [enthalten] und [...] ständig Wortschatz, Kollokationen, Formen, Fügungsregeln und grammatische Bedeutungsweisen **um[wälzen]**.

...Ich weiß leider nicht genau, was hier mit 'umwälzen' gemeint ist. Im Sinne von 'verändern'? Oder eher im Sinne von 'durchnehmen'?
Steffili
Germany
Local time: 23:25
review
Explanation:
undergo critical review with the possibility of incurring change

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Note added at 6 days (2009-11-09 09:13:03 GMT) Post-grading
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Thanks, Steffili
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Goldcoaster
Switzerland
Local time: 23:25
Grading comment
I've chosen this one from these many opportunities since my 'linguistic intuition' tells me that this could be appropriate, maybe just as the others too. Thank's to everyone!
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Summary of answers provided
5recycleTeresa Reinhardt
3 +1overturn
Annett Kottek
3 +1review
Goldcoaster
3 +1change/circulate/revolutionize/recycle
Nicole Backhaus
3re-formulate
kwatkins
3overthrowmill
3 -1to study exhaustivelyYasutomo Kanazawa


  

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17 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5 peer agreement (net): -1
to study exhaustively


Explanation:
In this context, umwälzen means to study exhaustively as a teaching material, since the publication has stopped since 2007 by the writer. Languages evolve, but like Shakespeare or other famous writers whose works are not available anymore, people use them for teaching materials to study exhaustively the grammar, syntax, writing styles, usage of words, etc. during that certain period or age.

Yasutomo Kanazawa
Japan
Local time: 07:25
Native speaker of: Native in JapaneseJapanese
PRO pts in category: 4

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
disagree  Tessa Pfenninger: I'm not convinced, but to give a more useful opinion I need to know what the omissions (brackets) are. I suspect that what the writer is saying is that in storytelling all these text elements interact/appear ... /are demonstrated
31 mins
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1 hr   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5 peer agreement (net): +1
change/circulate/revolutionize/recycle


Explanation:
Ich verstehe es auch als "aendern/veraendern".
Kindlicher Wortschatz unterliegt kontinuierlcher Veraenderung, das wuerde also hier gut passen.

I also like to recycle, since old things are turned into new things.




    Reference: http://de.thefreedictionary.com/umw%C3%A4lzen
Nicole Backhaus
Honduras
Local time: 16:25
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: Native in GermanGerman

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Harald Moelzer (medical-translator)
8 hrs
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4 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5
overthrow


Explanation:
another possibility instead of "revolutionize" - that is how I understand it given the sparse context.

mill
Germany
Local time: 23:25
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 12
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7 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5
recycle


Explanation:
oder repeat - wiederholen. Ganz ueblicher Begriff zu der Zeit - Wortschatz wird umgewälzt - wiederholt in neuem Kontext in authentischen Texten/authentischer Sprache statt durch stures Pauken, Listen...(das war ja das Revolutionaere an Piepho in den Siebzigern . Lang, lang ist's her; er war einer derjenigen, die den EU revolutionieren wollten)

Siehe auch hier:
www.tu-dresden.de/sulifr/downloads/2009/Wortschatz2.pdf

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Note added at 7 hrs (2009-11-02 20:30:25 GMT)
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Ich hatte das Vergnuegen und die Ehre, Herrn Piepho noch zu kennen. Er hat eine ganze Generation von Englischlehrern befluegelt. Im Detail ging es dabei um eine sehr methodische Strategie mit mehreren sequentiellen Schritten, nach der damals vor allem auch an Gesamtschulen viel unterrichtet wurde (die waren ja erheblich offener fuer Experimente - das war noch zur Zeit von "Learning English" ("Look! Spot! Spot is a dog!")

Teresa Reinhardt
United States
Local time: 14:25
Works in field
Native speaker of: Native in GermanGerman, Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 60
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8 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5 peer agreement (net): +1
overturn


Explanation:
Im Sinne von 'verändern'. Diese Regeln od. Konventionen werden entweder constantly overturned oder, besser vielleicht, sie sind subject to [constant] change - - so verstehe ich das.

Annett Kottek
United Kingdom
Native speaker of: Native in GermanGerman

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  seehand: mit dem zweiten Vorschlag
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3 days3 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5
re-formulate


Explanation:
like recycle but suggests a bit of 'shaping'...

kwatkins
United Kingdom
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 3
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2 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5 peer agreement (net): +1
review


Explanation:
undergo critical review with the possibility of incurring change

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Note added at 6 days (2009-11-09 09:13:03 GMT) Post-grading
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Thanks, Steffili

Goldcoaster
Switzerland
Local time: 23:25
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish, Native in GermanGerman
PRO pts in category: 7
Grading comment
I've chosen this one from these many opportunities since my 'linguistic intuition' tells me that this could be appropriate, maybe just as the others too. Thank's to everyone!

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  robin25
22 hrs
  -> Thanks, Robin
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