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Language education / MSP
Course: Children with different first languages learn German as a second language
Learning German in a multilingual community
Admission requirements
STEOP, at least 100 ECTS-CP
Semester: 8
Orientation
Diversity
Focus
Language education / MSP
Aim
When children enter school, their linguistic lifeworld changes in a qualitatively significant way because they have to deal intensively with the written form of the German language and the differences in register. In action-oriented lessons that take into account German as a first and second language, pupils with German as a second language acquire child-oriented strategies that enable them to describe linguistic elements, structures, and rules in a new language and relate languages to each other.
Content
- Processes of child first and second language acquisition (German as native language, German as second language, German as foreign language, English as a bridge language)
- Linguistic registers and error culture in language acquisition
- Language role models and communication opportunities as conditions for successful language development in multilingualism
- Literacy in the first and second language
- Models of German as a second language instruction in multilingual classes
- Language learning strategies and support models of listening, speaking, reading, and writing as social and cultural practices in heterogeneous classes
- Conceptual knowledge of inter- and transculturality in the context of diversity
show detailsshow lessLearning outcomes/skills
The graduates ...
- are familiar with the processes of children’s first language acquisition and the current state of research with regard to the hypotheses on second language acquisition
- use their knowledge of first and second language acquisition for an error-tolerant language culture that respects languages of origin
- are familiar with delays and hurdles in the first and second language acquisition process and can apply inclusive communication procedures
- know about the importance of language role models in language acquisition and can ensure and design the necessary communication opportunities in the classroom
- can take into account the individual starting points of multilingual pupils in the literacy process
- are familiar with different models of teaching in multilingual classes and know how to look at them critically
- teach language learning strategies to support pupils in their individual language learning processes
- compare and discuss concepts of inter- and transculturality in order to use the linguistic and cultural potential in multilingual classes.
Supra-subject and transversal skills
- Language education
- Intercultural education/multilingualism
- Diversity/inclusion
Teaching and learning methods
Languages
German, English
Semester hours per week
3
ECTS-AP
5
Category
Focus
Type of course
Seminar (pi)
Type of assessment
digit grade
Performance records
- Oral partial performance
- Written partial performance/seminar paper
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