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Assessing profession-related language skills of language teachers

Project management

Direction: Wilfrid Kuster (PHSG), Mirjam Egli (PH FHNW) c/o Center for Teachers’ Language Competences (PHSG, SUPSI, HEP Vaud, UNIL)

Team

Alice Bracher (HEP|PH FR)
Katharina Karges (till 2021)
In cooperation with PH FHNW, PH Luzern and PHSG

Duration
01.2018 - 12.2024
Keywords
Competences, Evaluation, Institutions
Funding
Supported by the Federal Office of Culture
Description

The aim of this project is the empirically-based development of assessments to test the profession-specific language skills in teachers of French, English and Italian as a foreign language in primary and secondary schools. The main starting points for the project are the “Profession-specific language proficiency profiles” (https://www.phsg.ch) as well as an inventory of the requirements and assessment practices at universities of teacher education regarding profession-specific language skills.