Evolution of patois in French-speaking Switzerland
Predictions regarding vitality, the linguistic system and language practices
Project management
Research cooperation with the Glossaire des patois de la Suisse romande - GPSR
Competences in French as a foreign language in the Passepartout region
A systematic evaluation of current studies on the use of Mille feuilles und Clin d'oeil
Project management
The basis of this report, commissioned by the association BERNbilingue, is a systematic evaluation of current studies on French as a foreign language lessons at primary and secondary schools that use the Mille feuilles and Clin d'oeil learning materials. The report aims to compile findings on the following three questions: 1) How well do students in the Passepartout region master the basic competences and achieve the curriculum goals? 2) How do teachers rate the Mille feuilles/Clin d'oeil...
Team
Thomas Aeppli, Katharina Karges (till 2020)
HEP Vaud, PH FHNW, PHLU, PHZH, DECS Ticino, EDK Task database
The Swiss Conference of Cantonal Ministers of Education (EDK) planned to verify how well students are mastering the Basic Competences (educational standards) in foreign languages for the second time in spring 2020. Due to the covid-19 pandemic, classroom teaching in schools was prohibited from mid-March to mid-May. As the verification could not be carried out as planned, the EDK decided to postpone it to 2023.
Project management
Team
Laura Villa (Queens College CUNY) and Jose del Valle (The Graduate Center – CUNY)
This collaborative project aims at moving beyond common and acritical assumptions about capitalism and language that tend to take them for granted, without sufficiently interrogating their historical development, their heterogeneous manifestations in time and space, or their complicated interrelationship. We believe instead that a thorough exploration of the co-relation of language and capitalism is needed in order to grasp how, where, why, to what extent, with what consequences, and...
Cold rush
Dynamics of language and identity in expanding Arctic economics
Project management
Sari Pietikäinen (Univ. of Jyväskylä)
Team
Monica Heller (Toronto), Maiju Strömmer (Jyväskylä), Anna-Liisa Ojala (Jyväskylä)
The Cold Rush project examines the transforming Arctic North as an expanding hotspot at the juncture of economic development and cultural transformation, focusing on the ways in which language and identity matter in these processes.
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
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.
Comprehension and interaction in French as a foreign language
Linguistic and pedagogical approaches
Project management
Team
Simone Morehed
The purpose of this project is to study the ‟comprehension‟ aspect of oral interaction competence. More specifically, this involves studying the linguistic and cultural characteristics of comprehension in oral interactions as well as testing teaching sequences that target comprehension in oral interactions for an audience of advanced learners of French as a foreign language.
Project management
Team
Marie Waeber, Alessandra Keller Gerber, Martine Chomentowski
Financed by Fond d’Innovation de la Faculté des lettres, University of Fribourg
The aim of this project is to test the use of the digital collaborative writing tool FRAMAPAD https://framapad.org to support the note-taking skills of allophone students attending courses in the humanities.
New Speakers in a Multilingual Europe
Opportunities and Challenges
Project management
Bernadette O'Rourke (Heriot-Watt University Edinburgh, UK), Alexandre Duchêne (Head of working groupe "Transnational workers")
Team
Federica Diemoz (University of Neuchâtel), Matthias Grünert (University of Fribourg)
Globalisation, increased mobility and transnational networking transform the linguistic ecologies of contemporary societies. In this COST Action, the aim is to bring multilinguals into the focus of these processes by investigating the challenges and opportunities involved in acquiring, using and being understood as a “new speaker” of a language in the context of a multilingual Europe.
Mapping developmental profiles in early language learning at school
Assessment tools as a link between education standards, curricula, teaching and learning
Project management
Supervision: Thomas Studer, Wilfrid Kuster, Mirjam Egli (PHSG), Gé Stoks (SUPSI/DFA)
Team
Anna Kull, Thomas Roderer (PHSG), Daniela Kappler (SUPSI/DFA)
In collaboration with the University of Teacher Education St. Gallen (PHSG) and the Scuola universitaria professionale della Svizzera Italiana (SUPSI)