QUASSEL - Quality of language education integrated in everyday life and language development in children - FHSE

The project at a glance

Start date:

02 Jan 2023
Duration in months:

72
Funding:

htw saar
Principal Investigator(s):

Matthias Peter BÖHMER

About

Linguistic competence is a key skill that represents a decisive educational indicator for child development. However, the alarming results of school entry examinations of the federal states in Germany indicate that an enormous need for support is necessary here. The German Federal Ministry for Family Affairs, Senior Citizens, Women and Youth therefore launched nationwide initiatives focusing on language education by kindergarten teachers and specialist staff in day-care centres. So far, however, there is no evidence that such an approach is actually effective. In a first step this gap shall be closed with this interdisciplinary project. In addition, we would like to shed some light on the kindergarten teachers’ assessment competencies, i.e., their competence to assess the children’s language development accurately. In a second step, based on third-party funding the view shall be expanded to the Luxemburgish day-care system with a focus on multilingualism. The overall project is to be assigned to research with a mixed method approach.