Languages connect people

Children learn in their first language

Methodology and didactics of first language teaching

Admission requirements

none

Semester: 8

Orientation

Social peace

Focus

Languages connect people

Aim

This course focuses on the legal status, methodology and didactics of first language teaching. The basics of first, second and multilingual acquisition are deepened and supplemented by principles of contrastive language analysis. The aim of the course is to provide an insight into the possibilities for designing lessons in the first language on the basis of the legal and organisational framework in Austria and to make cooperation with various educational partners usable for your own lessons.

Content

• First language teaching in the context of school pedagogy and school theory
• School law provisions for first language teaching in the Austrian school system
• Organisational forms for first language teaching
• Teaching meta-linguistic competences for language comparisons
• Foundations for team teaching and cooperation between first language and mainstream lessons as well as networked support measures
• Parallel and coordinated literacy training in first and second language(s), taking multiple literacy/multi-literacy into account
• Diversity competence in heterogeneous contexts, e.g. parental work and the role of the extracurricular environment, e.g. in the promotion of literacy