This article attempts to investigate to what extent the morphological characteristics of the spoken
language should be addressed in the teaching of German L2/L3. Discussions about the phenomena
of oral communication in the teaching of a foreign language are certainly not new. However, there
has only recently been some agreement about the desirability of addressing the features of spoken
language in foreign language teaching. After a short introduction to the grammar of the spoken
language and the teaching of German as L2/L3, some of the most important morphological features
of spoken German are presented. Subsequently, some suggestions are made as to when and if
these phenomena should be a topic in the classroom of German as a foreign language and also as to
what criteria this didactic decision should be based on.
