Prengel Year

Course: Children experience the world in a new language

Language assessment in the learning field of German as a second language

Admission requirements

STEOP

Semester: 5

Orientation

Diversity

Focus

Languages connect people

Aim

Specific diagnostic procedures are available to determine the level of language development of children and young people with German as a second language. The use of evidence-based pedagogical-diagnostic procedures helps to assess the child's linguistic development and make it clear where language support should start. The correct use of diagnostic tools and the conception of adequate support measures are specifically trained and practised in this course.

Content

• Heterogeneity of linguistic expression and development of language level
• Procedures for observing linguistic expression and determining language level
• Critical consideration of different diagnostic procedures for assessing the language level
• Application knowledge of the instruments of language level observation and the procedures of language level assessment in heterogeneous classes
• Interpretation of the results with regard to the individual prerequisites and potentials of the pupils
• Individualised language support on a diagnostic basis in the form of support plans
• Variety of methods for the implementation of diagnostically supported language teaching in heterogeneous learning groups