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Teaching text genres at secondary level I

An approach to integrate the foreign language (German) and the school language (French)
Project management
Team

Giulia Bierens-de-Haan (UNIGE)

Project conducted by the University of Geneva (UNIGE)

What Are the Best Forms and Necessary Conditions to Enable Exchange or Direct Contact for the Largest Number of School Children?

A study of the conditions for successful exchange based on perceptions and experiences for future teachers of foreign languages/cultures in compulsory schools
Project management

Susanne Wokusch, Rosanna Margonis-Pasinetti (HEP Vaud)

Despite the acknowledged benefit of language (and cultural) exchange at all school levels, the promotion of this instrument has had limited impact on exchanges actually conducted. The organisation and preparation of exchange and contact opportunities requires a considerable amount of extra work on the part of teachers; for them to consent to taking on such an effort, strong convictions and high motivation as well as institutional support are required.

Project management

Scientific partner: 
Hansjakob Schneider, PHZH

The potential to learn foreign languages varies from one individual to the next and has been investigated by many researchers as of the early 1950s. Individuals’ ability to learn foreign languages relies on various elements that have been identified and grouped under the term language aptitude (ability to retrieve, identify and memorise sound sequences belonging to foreign languages, ability to identify meaningful common features etc.). Another area of the research focuses on emotional/personality...

Immersion and content-oriented language teaching

Didactic sequences and insertion into primary school’s curriculum
Project management

Laurent Gajo, UNIGE
 

Team

Gabriela Steffen, Ivana Vuksanović, Audrey Freytag (UNIGE)

This project aims at documenting and discussing the conditions for implementing bilingual teaching at primary school level based on two main issues:

Project management
Team

Scientific partner: Sylvia Nadig PH Zug

This project aimed to gain empirical knowledge about how learners deal with multilingual teaching approaches in the foreign language classroom and to acquire a better understanding of the potential and the functioning of different types of multilingual teaching activities.

Innovative forms of assessment

In-depth study on competence-based assessment of receptive skills
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Team

(associated thesis project)

If the aim is to measure how well learners can actually use a foreign language, then competence-oriented testing with near-authentic tasks is the method of choice. There is, however, a need for renewal in the design of such test tasks, especially because real-world language use often uses electronic channels. Chat, Internet searches and the like are part of everyday life. In addition, computer-based testing has increasingly become the norm in recent years, especially in the field of...