Project management: Prof. Dr. Katja F. Cantone, Prof. Dr. Sebastian Otten, Prof. Dr. Nicolle Pfaff, Prof. Dr. Judith Purkarthofer, Prof. Dr. Tobias Schroedler

Funding: Profilschwerpunkt Wandel von Gegenwartsgesellschaften (Profile Initiative "Changes in Contemporary Societies") 

In an interdisciplinary research network, the project "Family Language Policies as a Result of Socio-political, Economic and Institutional Practices (WeSpra)" explores the role that migration-induced multilingualism plays among young people and their parents in terms of its benefits, acquisition, use and maintenance. At the centre of the research network's work is the question of what is experienced as successful language maintenance. With an interdisciplinary approach, the intergenerational transmission of languages of origin is examined in the field of tension between individual convictions, interactive, but also economic and institutional practices as well as social discourses. With the inclusion of sociolinguistics and applied linguistics, language acquisition and language maintenance research, labour market and migration economics, as well as educationally oriented migration and inequality research, the network takes on a multi-perspective view at central conditions of migration-induced multilingualism in the context of the family.

Project management: Prof. Dr. Isabell van Ackeren  

Project coordination: Maiken Bonnes and Dr. Julia Liebscher (Center for Higher Education Development and Quality Enhancement (CHEDQE) 

The cross-faculty project "PITCH" ("Innovating Exams, Creating Transfer, Promoting Equal Opportunities") aims to to unlock the potential of digital and digitally supported examinations at UDE. To this end, selected examinations are being further developed within a Professional Learning Community of lecturers, students and central offices.   

Prof. Dr. Tobias Schroedler and Minh Salzmann-Hoang are participating in PITCH with the aim of improving the examination of the “DaZ” module ("Fundamentals of German as a Second Language"), taking into account equality of opportunities and validity . The courses in the module include key knowledge of teacher training. The large cohort (400-900 students per semester) places special demands on the digital infrastructure. The aim is therefore to draw implications for a competence-oriented further development of the examination tasks by identifying so-called threshold concepts of the respective subject areas and by statistical evaluation of the examination results. You can find more information here  (in German).

Project management: Dr. Svenja Hammer, Antje Hansen, Prof. Dr. Tobias Schroedler, Prof. Dr. Meike Wernicke

The international project "Multilingualism in Teacher Education (MultiTEd)" aims to find out how teachers in different countries are prepared to work with multilingual groups of students. The first results and research-based presentations from nine different countries have been published in an edited volume (Preparing Teachers to Work with Multilingual Learners) by Multilingual Matters. The project participants would like to continue the story of MultiTEd and are interested in further international comparative work on preparing prospective teachers to deal with linguistic diversity in schools and classrooms. A blog post about the project and the recent book can be found here: (How are Pre-service Teachers Being Prepared to Work in Multilingual Contexts?).

Project management: Prof. Dr. Katja F. Cantone, Franziska Möller, Prof. Dr. Judith Purkarthofer, Prof. Dr. Tobias Schroedler

The project "NRW speaks heritage languages" was initiated on the occasion of the International Mother Tongue Day (UNESCO or UN) 2021. In an open survey for all interested participants, data was collected on which languages play what role in which areas of life of multilingual individuals. In addition to information on the family language use and its benefits in the private and public sphere, the project aims to generate a better understanding of how speakers of other languages of origin perceive the value, importance, social acceptance and also the pragmatic benefits of their languages for schooling, education and the labour market, and how such perceptions are formed.

Project management: Prof. Dr. Tobias Schroedler

Cooperation: Prof. Dr. Barbara Herzog-Punzenberger

Project assistence: Lucas Schmitz

Funded by: Corona Cooperation Fund

In the project "International comparative perspectives on German as a Second Language and Multilingualism in schools and classes as an element of teacher education from Germany and Austria (Inter-DaZ)", possibilities for the virtual internationalisation of academic teaching are created. In cooperation with Prof. Dr. Barbara Herzog-Punzenberger and the University of Innsbruck, the aim is to explore differences and similarities in dealing with German as a second language/multilingualism between Germany and Austria.

Project management: Prof. Dr. Tobias Schroedler, Caroline Böning, Marei Roßmöller

The project "Evaluation of Professional Beliefs of Future Teachers on Compulsory Teaching Components and on Linguistic Diversity in Schools" (EvaDaZ) surveys needs for improvement of the DaZ lecture in the Bachelor's programme at the University of Duisburg-Essen in the summer semester of 2021. On the one hand, evaluation questions are asked about this compulsory component of the university’s teacher degree, which relate to the content of our lecture on multilingualism/GSL as well as digital learning. On the other hand, the study aims to determine attitudes and beliefs of prospective teachers about linguistic diversity in schools. The survey instrument therefore additionally contains validated scales for collecting data on beliefs about linguistic heterogeneity in schools and teaching.

Prof. Dr. Tobias Schroedler is involved in the DaZKom-Transfer project as a cooperation partner. Further information on the project can be found here.

Prof. Dr Tobias Schroedler is a member of the Community of Practice German as a Second Language in the ComeIn project. More information can be found here.

Prof. Dr. Tobias Schroedler and Caroline Böning are participating in the project "Well-being and digital learning of primary school pupils". You can find more information here.