Learning about Language: Preparing pre-service subject teachers for multilingual classroom realities

• Published in: Language learning in higher education (Berlin, Germany) Vol. 9; no. 1; pp. 223 - 240
• Main Authors: Schroedler, Tobias, Grommes, Patrick
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin De Gruyter 26.07.2019; De Gruyter Mouton; Walter de Gruyter GmbH
• Subjects: Educational Change; Educational Innovation; Foreign Countries; German; German as a second language; German as a second language instruction; German as a second language learning; Graduate Students; Higher education; Intellectual Disciplines; Language; Language Acquisition; Language Attitudes; language development; language registers; language sensitive teaching; Multilingualism; Pedagogical Content Knowledge; Preservice Teachers; Program Effectiveness; Reasoning; Second Language Learning; Second language teachers; Seminars; Skill Development; Social Change; Teacher Competencies; Teacher education; Teacher Education Programs; Teacher Improvement; Teaching; Germany

This paper presents and discusses experiences gained in a German teacher education innovation project on competence and skill development in dealing with multilingualism. New seminar structures were developed, which go hand in hand with a reorganisation of the entire teacher education structure in t...