course for teacher-training students on language in middle and high schools

[Frederike Groothoff]

Dear Shanley,
 
it might be a good idea to read: 
Griebel,W., Heinisch, R., Kieferle, C., Röbe, E. & Seifert, A. (Eds.), *Transition 
to School and Multilingualism – A Curriculum for Educational Professionals.*
 Hamburg, Germany: Verlag Dr. Kovac. 
 
There is background information on multilingualism, but there are also many 
examples of good practice. I read the Dutch version, but there is also a 
german version.
 
Good luck,
Frederike Groothoff

On Tuesday, March 11, 2014 12:45:51 PM UTC+1, Shanley Allen wrote:

> Dear All, 
>
> One of my doctoral students is developing a "Language in Schools" 
> course for teacher training students in Germany who are preparing to 
> teach a wide range of content subjects at the middle school and high 
> school level (ages 10-18; grades 5-12). We are eagerly looking for 
> advice and suggestions from any of you who have taught similar courses 
> or know of relevant material. 
>
> These teacher training students are preparing to teach in mainstream 
> classrooms, which will include children from immigrant backgrounds 
> (e.g. Turkish, Russian, Greek) and possibly children with minor 
> language-related impairments (e.g. language issues related to ADHD). 
> The students typically know little if anything about language or 
> linguistics, or the relevance of that for teaching. 
>
> The learning objectives for the course are: 
> a. to understand language as an object of study (e.g. arbitrary nature 
> of language, areas of language - phonology, morphology, syntax, etc.) 
> b. to become familiar with language development phenomena typical of 
> this age range (e.g. vocabulary, advanced syntactic structures, 
> pragmatics) 
> c. to understand the basics of bilingual and L2 development, especially 
> for immigrant / heritage language children 
> d. to understand how linguistic issues at all levels (e.g. case 
> marking, relative clause structures, politeness conventions) can have 
> an effect in classroom teaching and learning 
> e. to identify potential linguistic problems in teaching material and 
> learn to use or adapt those appropriately 
>
> Any and all suggestions for content, materials (readings, examples), 
> etc. are welcome. Although the course will be taught in German and 
> oriented to the teaching context in Germany, information from other 
> countries is very welcome and useful. 
>
> Thanks so much, 
> Shanley Allen. 
>
>
>
>
> ******************************************************************************** 
>
> Prof. Dr. Shanley E. M. Allen 
> Dekanin, FB Sozialwissenschaften / Chair, Department of Social Sciences 
> Director, Psycholinguistics and Language Development Group 
> Center for Cognitive Science 
> University of Kaiserslautern 
> Erwin-Schrödinger-Straße 57/409 
> 67663 Kaiserslautern 
> Germany 
>
> e-mail: al... at sowi.uni-kl.de <javascript:> 
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