Research in the fields of language acquisition, multilingualism and cross-language didactics has shown that language skills are interrelated across languages and that cross-language language teaching can contribute positively to students’ development of language awareness, linguistic curiosity and motivation for language, among other things. This development project will put that knowledge to work in all the country’s teacher training programmes, so that a new generation of teachers can bring the cross-lingual methods to the country's primary schools.
Objective
The objective of the project is to develop, implement and embed research-based knowledge on cross-language didactics in teacher education in close connection with primary schools. Research-based knowledge about cross-lingualism is didacticised in a project group consisting of language teachers from all six of the country’s university colleges and then brought into teacher training programmes and subsequently into primary schools. In this process, both university college lecturers and language teacher students are actively involved in the teaching development, and practising primary school teachers are involved in the evaluation of the programmes. The project aims to create a sustainable anchoring of cross-language didactics in teacher education, including materials for inspiration for both teacher education and primary schools.
Background
The project has been developed in a collaboration within Language Didactic Focus under the auspices of the Centre for Basic Education Research.
Project managers
- Laila Kjærbæk, Associate Professor, PhD, University of Southern Denmark (project manager)
- Maria Pia Petterson, Associate Professor, PhD, UCL University College (co-project manager)
Project participants
- Anne-Marie Fischer, Associate Professor, University College of Northern Denmark
- Bodil Christensen, Associate Professor, University College of Northern Denmark
- Camilla Franziska Hansen, Assistant Professor, UC SYD
- Gitte Hjarnø Petersen, Assistant Professor, UCL University College
- Karen Lassen Bruntt, Associate Professor, VIA University College
- Merete Smith-Sivertsen, Associate Professor, UC SYD
- Nina Hauge Jensen, Associate Professor, VIA University College
- Petra Klimaszyk, Associate Professor, University College Absalon
- Sofia Esmann Busch, Associate Professor, University College Absalon
- Stephanie Kim Löbl, PhD Fellow, University College Copenhagen
- Susanne Karen Jacobsen, Associate Professor, University College Copenhagen
Sparring group
- Line Krogager Andersen, postdoc, University of Southern Denmark
- Line Møller Daugaard, Senior Associate Professor, VIA University College
- Nikolaj Elf, University of Southern Denmark
Administrative support
- Marianne Horn, University of Southern Denmark
Project period
1 February 2021 to 30 June 2022.
Read media coverage
- Sprogundervisning på læreruddannelsen får et løft (Ritzau) https://via.ritzau.dk/pressemeddelelse/13610811/sprogundervisning-pa-laereruddannelsen-far-et-loft?publisherId=12056383
- Lærerstuderende skal hjælpe med at udbrede flersprogsdidaktikken i folkeskolen (Folkeskolen) https://www.folkeskolen.dk/engelsk-laerer-og-efteruddannelse-laererstuderende/laererstuderende-skal-hjaelpe-med-at-udbrede-flersprogsdidaktikken-i-folkeskolen/871106
- Hvorfor tværsproglighed i læreruddannelsen? (Folkeskolen.dk) https://blog.folkeskolen.dk/blog-dansk-dansk-som-andetsprog/hvorfor-tvaersproglighed-i-laereruddannelsen/3355815
- Tysk – Dansk – Engelsk – og mange andre sprog (Folkeskolen.dk) https://blog.folkeskolen.dk/blog-dansk-dansk-som-andetsprog/tysk-dansk-engelsk-og-mange-andre-sprog/3338898
The project is funded by the National Centre for Foreign Languages.