These events include expert symposiums, such as the ACTFL-CEFR symposiums that were held between 2010 and 2013 on finding correspondences between the North American Proficiency Framework and the Common European Framework of Reference, and conferences, such as the 2013 conference on ability profiles for academic language (“Bildungssprachliche Kompetenzprofile”) as well as workshops on the research-based testing and test development and continuing education programs on assessment literacy.
The symposium “Key to Academic Success: Promoting and Evaluating Language Skills” was held on November 5, 2016, at Leipzig University. This event was organized by the Language Center and the Herder Institute of Leipzig University, together with the Institute for Test Research and Development, Leipzig.
In addition to a ceremonial opening of the Symposium on November 4th, in the context of which the important work of Prof. Tschirner in the field of German as a Foreign and Second Language was celebrated on the occasion of his 60th birthday, the event primarily explored the current discussions surrounding the (foreign) language requirements that students have to meet during various phases of their education. A special emphasis was placed on the challenges faced by students during transitions between various levels of education, as well as school and university dropout. The main focus was on current research concerning relevant language needs, reliable diagnostics for academic-language skills, and the associated promotion and training of the required language skills for successful academic and educational outcomes in German as a foreign language.
These subjects were discussed on an interdisciplinary basis with a special emphasis on
The outcomes of the Symposium were published in a special issue of the journal infoDaF, edited by Olaf Bärenfänger, Katrin Wisniewski, and Denisa Bordag.
Anmeldung zur Tagung im 2. OG des Hörsaalgebäudes
Begrüßung
Dr. Katrin Wisniewski
Hörsaal 8
Vortrag
Prof. Dr. Nicole Marx
Förderung, aber welchen Inhalts? – Didaktische Perspektiven auf Bildungssprache(n) im DaF-Unterricht
Abstract
Hörsaal 8
Pause/Wechsel zur Gruppenarbeit
Gruppenarbeit, Teil 1
Gruppe 1
Sprachliche Entwicklung im Kontext fachlichen Lernens
Prof. Dr. Christian Fandrych, Prof. Dr. Udo Ohm
Hörsaal 15, Info
Gruppe 2 (English)
Evidence for language competence: Reflecting opportunities and challenges of diagnostic instruments and corpora
Prof. Dr. Detmar Meurers, Dr. Barbara Geist
Hörsaal 16, Info
Gruppe 3
Brüche vermeiden/Bildungssprache fördern
Prof. Dr. Nicole Marx, Dr. Cordula Hunold
Hörsaal 17, Info
Mittagspause
Vortrag
Prof. Dr. Detmar Meurers
Do our textbooks foster language development? An exploration of linguistic complexity in Geography textbooks and student writing Abstract
Hörsaal 8
Pause/Wechsel zur Gruppenarbeit
Gruppenarbeit, Teil 2
Hörsaal 15, 16, 17
Pause
Vorstellung der Ergebnisse der Gruppenarbeit
Hörsaal 8
Panel Bildungssprache an der Schnittstelle von Fachdidaktik und Bildungspolitik
Prof. Dr. Erwin Tschirner (Universität Leipzig), Prof. Dr. Glenn Levine (University of California, Irvine), Prof. Dr. Winfried Thielmann (Technische Universität Chemnitz), Sebastian Vötter (Goethe-Institut), Prof. Dr. Johanna Watzinger-Tharp (University of Utah)
Hörsaal 8
Rückblick und Zusammenschau des Symposiums
Prof. Dr. Erwin Tschirner
Hörsaal 8
The precise and empirically based description of ability profiles for academic language has always been a desideratum for language (skills) and test research. The closing of this research gap is not only desirable, but also necessary, because, in order to provide academic-language support, guidance, and evaluation for the large number of university students and schoolchildren in Germany who do not speak German as their native language, reliable descriptions of the communicative needs and requirements of this target group are required.
Various scientific disciplines, including applied linguistics, the science of testing, language teaching, subject-related teaching methodology, German as a Foreign Language, and educational science, have already made important contributions to the development of “ability profiles for academic language.” However, interdisciplinary cooperation is often lacking, potential synergy effects are not exploited, and it has not been possible to satisfy the complex and multi-dimensional requirements associated with this objective.
The aim of the event was to bring together some 50 high-ranking scientists from various fields, along with leading representatives of important scientific associations, in order to facilitate scientific exchange and inspire cooperation.
The symposium was able to make a significant contribution towards the identification and initiation of theoretical and practical steps for the important objective of describing “ability profiles for academic language.”
Ankunft und Anmeldung
Treffen der Moderatorinnen/Moderatoren und Gruppenleiterinnen/Gruppenleiter
Olaf Bärenfänger
Hörsaal 16
Eröffnung und thematische Einführung
Erwin Tschirner (HS 8)
Grußwort
Sibylle Plassmann
Eröffnungsvortrag
Dorry Kenyon und Carsten Wilmes
Lessons from 10 Years of Scaling and Testing the Development of Academic English of Non-English Speaking Schoolchildren in the United States: The Experience of the WIDA Consortium .
Schwerpunkt Textkompetenz (HS 8)
Moderation: Michael Becker-Mrotzek
Olaf Hartung
Konzeptionelles Schreiben im Fachunterricht. Vorschläge zur Parametrisierung von Texthandlungen als eine Möglichkeit für Lernstandsdiagnosen.
Elke Sumfleth
Textkompetenz als Teil von Kommunikationskompetenz? Eine Interpretation aus der Chemiedidaktik.
Schwerpunkt Bildungsspracherwerb (HS 8)
Moderation: Ilonca Hardy
Katrin Lehnen
Vermittlung eristischer Textkompetenz in der Wissenschaftssprache Deutsch bei Studierenden mit erst-, zweit- und fremdsprachlichen Erwerbskontexten.
Thorsten Pohl
Überlegungen zur Epistemisierung des Unterrichtsdiskurses.
Gruppenarbeit 1 (HS 14 – 17)
Offizieller Empfang im Ratskeller/Neues Rathaus
Schwerpunkt Skalierung von Bildungssprache (HS 8)
Moderation: Gabriele Kniffka
Christoph Kulgemeyer
Verbale Erklärungen in der Physik: Entwicklung eines diagnostischen Instruments und Skalierung von Kompetenzausprägungen bei Lehramtsstudierenden.
Helmut Linneweber-Lammerskitten
Relevanz der Sprachkompetenz für den Mathematikunterricht.
Gruppenarbeit 2 (HS 14 – 17)
Plenum, Vorstellung der Ergebnisse der Gruppenarbeit (HS 8)
Rückblick und Zusammenschau des Symposiums (HS 8)
Erwin Tschirner und Olaf Bärenfänger
The Expert Workshop “German as a Foreign Language for STEM Subjects: Foundations and Curricular Approaches” was held from July 24 to 26, 2014, at Leipzig University. This event was organized by the American Association of Teachers of German (AATG), the Herder Institute of Leipzig University, and the Institute for Test Research and Development, Leipzig.
The aim of the workshop was to bring together approximately 50 colleagues from the field of German as a Foreign Language and German Language and Literature, and the teaching methodologies of the STEM subjects, along with teachers of German as a Foreign Language and teachers of STEM subjects from schools and universities in the US and Germany, in order to investigate and discuss the state of research on the need for language training and further education among teachers, university students, and schoolchildren in the STEM subjects.
In this context, the event sought to pool the diverse areas of expertise of researchers from the US and Germany in order to, on this basis, open up new avenues, both in the development of curricula and teaching materials and in the training and further education of teachers and university lecturers. Another important area of focus was the screening and testing of language skills in the STEM subjects.
The workshop was supported by a grant from the Transatlantic Program of the Federal Republic of Germany using funds from the European Recovery Program (ERP) of the Federal Ministry of Economic Affairs and Energy (BMWi). This event was organized by the American Association of Teachers of German (AATG), the Herder Institute at Leipzig University, the organization interDaF e.V., and the Institute for Test Research and Development, Leipzig.
The 2014 Expert Workshop served as the kickoff for a three-year research and further-education program. In 2015 and 2016 summer schools for German teachers from the US were organized on the basis of the outcomes of the 2014 Workshop. These summer-school programs were hosted by the organization interDaF e.V. in Leipzig.
The workshop proceedings were also summarized in a book entitled Deutsch als zweite Bildungssprache in MINT-Fächern (German as a Second Academic Language in the STEM Subjects), edited by Erwin Tschirner, Jupp Möhring, and Keith Cothrun and published by Stauffenburg Verlag.
Kaffeepause
Gruppenarbeit 2
Lernziele und Lernwege (HS 14)
Claudia Goll, Karlsruher Institut für
Technologie
Lernmaterialien (HS 15)
Sigurd Piwek, Milwaukee German
Immersion School
K-16 Articulation (HS 16)
Nicole Marx, Universität Bremen
Bildungspolitik, Vernetzung und Inter-
nationalisierung (HS 17)
Hermann Funk, Universität Jena
Ergebnisse Gruppenarbeit 2 (HS 8)
Mittagspause
Plenarvortrag 6 (HS 8)
Ines Busch-Lauer
Westsächsische Hochschule Zwickau
Deutsch-als-Fachsprache im MINT-Bereich
– Merkmale, Erfahrungen und Herausfor-
derungen
Plenarvortrag 7 (HS 8)
Thomas Studer
Universität Fribourg
Zum Verhältnis von Sprache und Fach bei
der Leistungsbeurteilung im fremdsprach-
lichen Sachfachunterricht
Gruppenarbeit 3
Lehrerbildung (HS 14)
Kristina Peuschel, Universität Leipzig
Sprache und Fach (HS 15)
Katrina Griffin, Anne Arundel County
Public Schools
Assessment (HS 16)
Ray Clifford, Brigham Young Univer-
sity
Bildungssprachl. Grundlagen (HS 17)
Damon Rarick, University of Rhode Is-
land
Kaffeepause
Gruppenarbeit 3 (Fortsetzung)
Ergebnisse Gruppenarbeit 3 (HS 8)
Offizieller Empfang
im Ratskeller/Neues Rathaus (Seite 31)
Plenarvortrag 8 (HS 8)
Erwin Tschirner
Herder-Institut, Universität Leipzig
Lehren und Lernen in MINT-Fächern im
Spannungsfeld
zwischen
Bildungs-
sprache, Fachwissen und Fremdsprachen-
erwerb
Gruppenarbeit 4
Lehrerbildung (HS 14)
Kristina Peuschel, Universität Leipzig
Sprache und Fach (HS 15)
Katrina Griffin, Anne Arundel County
Public Schools
Assessment (HS 16)
Ray Clifford, Brigham Young University
Bildungssprachl. Grundlagen (HS 17)
Damon Rarick, University of Rhode
Island
Kaffeepause
Gruppenarbeit 4 (Fortsetzung)
Ergebnisse Gruppenarbeit 4 (HS 8)
Plenardiskussion (HS 8)
Konferenzergebnisse Erwin Tschirner
-Mohamed Esa
-Johanna Watzinger-Tharp
-Thomas Studer
Mittagessen
Stadtführung (Seite 32)
The Expert Workshop “German as a Foreign Language for STEM Subjects: Foundations and Curricular Approaches” was held from July 24 to 26, 2014, at Leipzig University. This event was organized by the American Association of Teachers of German (AATG), the Herder Institute of Leipzig University, and the Institute for Test Research and Development, Leipzig.
The aim of the workshop was to bring together approximately 50 colleagues from the field of German as a Foreign Language and German Language and Literature, and the teaching methodologies of the STEM subjects, along with teachers of German as a Foreign Language and teachers of STEM subjects from schools and universities in the US and Germany, in order to investigate and discuss the state of research on the need for language training and further education among teachers, university students, and schoolchildren in the STEM subjects.
In this context, the event sought to pool the diverse areas of expertise of researchers from the US and Germany in order to, on this basis, open up new avenues, both in the development of curricula and teaching materials and in the training and further education of teachers and university lecturers. Another important area of focus was the screening and testing of language skills in the STEM subjects.
The workshop was supported by a grant from the Transatlantic Program of the Federal Republic of Germany using funds from the European Recovery Program (ERP) of the Federal Ministry of Economic Affairs and Energy (BMWi). This event was organized by the American Association of Teachers of German (AATG), the Herder Institute at Leipzig University, the organization interDaF e.V., and the Institute for Test Research and Development, Leipzig.
The 2014 Expert Workshop served as the kickoff for a three-year research and further-education program. In 2015 and 2016 summer schools for German teachers from the US were organized on the basis of the outcomes of the 2014 Workshop. These summer-school programs were hosted by the organization interDaF e.V. in Leipzig.
The workshop proceedings were also summarized in a book entitled Deutsch als zweite Bildungssprache in MINT-Fächern (German as a Second Academic Language in the STEM Subjects), edited by Erwin Tschirner, Jupp Möhring, and Keith Cothrun and published by Stauffenburg Verlag.
Kaffeepause
Gruppenarbeit 2
Lernziele und Lernwege (HS 14)
Claudia Goll, Karlsruher Institut für
Technologie
Lernmaterialien (HS 15)
Sigurd Piwek, Milwaukee German
Immersion School
K-16 Articulation (HS 16)
Nicole Marx, Universität Bremen
Bildungspolitik, Vernetzung und Inter-
nationalisierung (HS 17)
Hermann Funk, Universität Jena
Ergebnisse Gruppenarbeit 2 (HS 8)
Mittagspause
Plenarvortrag 6 (HS 8)
Ines Busch-Lauer
Westsächsische Hochschule Zwickau
Deutsch-als-Fachsprache im MINT-Bereich
– Merkmale, Erfahrungen und Herausfor-
derungen
Plenarvortrag 7 (HS 8)
Thomas Studer
Universität Fribourg
Zum Verhältnis von Sprache und Fach bei
der Leistungsbeurteilung im fremdsprach-
lichen Sachfachunterricht
Gruppenarbeit 3
Lehrerbildung (HS 14)
Kristina Peuschel, Universität Leipzig
Sprache und Fach (HS 15)
Katrina Griffin, Anne Arundel County
Public Schools
Assessment (HS 16)
Ray Clifford, Brigham Young Univer-
sity
Bildungssprachl. Grundlagen (HS 17)
Damon Rarick, University of Rhode Is-
land
Kaffeepause
Gruppenarbeit 3 (Fortsetzung)
Ergebnisse Gruppenarbeit 3 (HS 8)
Offizieller Empfang
im Ratskeller/Neues Rathaus (Seite 31)
Plenarvortrag 8 (HS 8)
Erwin Tschirner
Herder-Institut, Universität Leipzig
Lehren und Lernen in MINT-Fächern im
Spannungsfeld
zwischen
Bildungs-
sprache, Fachwissen und Fremdsprachen-
erwerb
Gruppenarbeit 4
Lehrerbildung (HS 14)
Kristina Peuschel, Universität Leipzig
Sprache und Fach (HS 15)
Katrina Griffin, Anne Arundel County
Public Schools
Assessment (HS 16)
Ray Clifford, Brigham Young University
Bildungssprachl. Grundlagen (HS 17)
Damon Rarick, University of Rhode
Island
Kaffeepause
Gruppenarbeit 4 (Fortsetzung)
Ergebnisse Gruppenarbeit 4 (HS 8)
Plenardiskussion (HS 8)
Konferenzergebnisse Erwin Tschirner
-Mohamed Esa
-Johanna Watzinger-Tharp
-Thomas Studer
Mittagessen
Stadtführung (Seite 32)
The precise and empirically based description of ability profiles for academic language has always been a desideratum for language (skills) and test research. The closing of this research gap is not only desirable, but also necessary, because, in order to provide academic-language support, guidance, and evaluation for the large number of university students and schoolchildren in Germany who do not speak German as their native language, reliable descriptions of the communicative needs and requirements of this target group are required.
Various scientific disciplines, including applied linguistics, the science of testing, language teaching, subject-related teaching methodology, German as a Foreign Language, and educational science, have already made important contributions to the development of “ability profiles for academic language.” However, interdisciplinary cooperation is often lacking, potential synergy effects are not exploited, and it has not been possible to satisfy the complex and multi-dimensional requirements associated with this objective.
The aim of the event was to bring together some 50 high-ranking scientists from various fields, along with leading representatives of important scientific associations, in order to facilitate scientific exchange and inspire cooperation.
The symposium was able to make a significant contribution towards the identification and initiation of theoretical and practical steps for the important objective of describing “ability profiles for academic language.”
Ankunft und Anmeldung
Treffen der Moderatorinnen/Moderatoren und Gruppenleiterinnen/Gruppenleiter
Olaf Bärenfänger
Hörsaal 16
Eröffnung und thematische Einführung
Erwin Tschirner (HS 8)
Grußwort
Sibylle Plassmann
Eröffnungsvortrag
Dorry Kenyon und Carsten Wilmes
Lessons from 10 Years of Scaling and Testing the Development of Academic English of Non-English Speaking Schoolchildren in the United States: The Experience of the WIDA Consortium .
Schwerpunkt Textkompetenz (HS 8)
Moderation: Michael Becker-Mrotzek
Olaf Hartung
Konzeptionelles Schreiben im Fachunterricht. Vorschläge zur Parametrisierung von Texthandlungen als eine Möglichkeit für Lernstandsdiagnosen.
Elke Sumfleth
Textkompetenz als Teil von Kommunikationskompetenz? Eine Interpretation aus der Chemiedidaktik.
Schwerpunkt Bildungsspracherwerb (HS 8)
Moderation: Ilonca Hardy
Katrin Lehnen
Vermittlung eristischer Textkompetenz in der Wissenschaftssprache Deutsch bei Studierenden mit erst-, zweit- und fremdsprachlichen Erwerbskontexten.
Thorsten Pohl
Überlegungen zur Epistemisierung des Unterrichtsdiskurses.
Gruppenarbeit 1 (HS 14 – 17)
Offizieller Empfang im Ratskeller/Neues Rathaus
Schwerpunkt Skalierung von Bildungssprache (HS 8)
Moderation: Gabriele Kniffka
Christoph Kulgemeyer
Verbale Erklärungen in der Physik: Entwicklung eines diagnostischen Instruments und Skalierung von Kompetenzausprägungen bei Lehramtsstudierenden.
Helmut Linneweber-Lammerskitten
Relevanz der Sprachkompetenz für den Mathematikunterricht.
Gruppenarbeit 2 (HS 14 – 17)
Plenum, Vorstellung der Ergebnisse der Gruppenarbeit (HS 8)
Rückblick und Zusammenschau des Symposiums (HS 8)
Erwin Tschirner und Olaf Bärenfänger
The precise and empirically based description of ability profiles for academic language has always been a desideratum for language (skills) and test research. The closing of this research gap is not only desirable, but also necessary, because, in order to provide academic-language support, guidance, and evaluation for the large number of university students and schoolchildren in Germany who do not speak German as their native language, reliable descriptions of the communicative needs and requirements of this target group are required.
Various scientific disciplines, including applied linguistics, the science of testing, language teaching, subject-related teaching methodology, German as a Foreign Language, and educational science, have already made important contributions to the development of “ability profiles for academic language.” However, interdisciplinary cooperation is often lacking, potential synergy effects are not exploited, and it has not been possible to satisfy the complex and multi-dimensional requirements associated with this objective.
The aim of the event was to bring together some 50 high-ranking scientists from various fields, along with leading representatives of important scientific associations, in order to facilitate scientific exchange and inspire cooperation.
The symposium was able to make a significant contribution towards the identification and initiation of theoretical and practical steps for the important objective of describing “ability profiles for academic language.”
Ankunft und Anmeldung
Treffen der Moderatorinnen/Moderatoren und Gruppenleiterinnen/Gruppenleiter
Olaf Bärenfänger
Hörsaal 16
Eröffnung und thematische Einführung
Erwin Tschirner (HS 8)
Grußwort
Sibylle Plassmann
Eröffnungsvortrag
Dorry Kenyon und Carsten Wilmes
Lessons from 10 Years of Scaling and Testing the Development of Academic English of Non-English Speaking Schoolchildren in the United States: The Experience of the WIDA Consortium .
Schwerpunkt Textkompetenz (HS 8)
Moderation: Michael Becker-Mrotzek
Olaf Hartung
Konzeptionelles Schreiben im Fachunterricht. Vorschläge zur Parametrisierung von Texthandlungen als eine Möglichkeit für Lernstandsdiagnosen.
Elke Sumfleth
Textkompetenz als Teil von Kommunikationskompetenz? Eine Interpretation aus der Chemiedidaktik.
Schwerpunkt Bildungsspracherwerb (HS 8)
Moderation: Ilonca Hardy
Katrin Lehnen
Vermittlung eristischer Textkompetenz in der Wissenschaftssprache Deutsch bei Studierenden mit erst-, zweit- und fremdsprachlichen Erwerbskontexten.
Thorsten Pohl
Überlegungen zur Epistemisierung des Unterrichtsdiskurses.
Gruppenarbeit 1 (HS 14 – 17)
Offizieller Empfang im Ratskeller/Neues Rathaus
Schwerpunkt Skalierung von Bildungssprache (HS 8)
Moderation: Gabriele Kniffka
Christoph Kulgemeyer
Verbale Erklärungen in der Physik: Entwicklung eines diagnostischen Instruments und Skalierung von Kompetenzausprägungen bei Lehramtsstudierenden.
Helmut Linneweber-Lammerskitten
Relevanz der Sprachkompetenz für den Mathematikunterricht.
Gruppenarbeit 2 (HS 14 – 17)
Plenum, Vorstellung der Ergebnisse der Gruppenarbeit (HS 8)
Rückblick und Zusammenschau des Symposiums (HS 8)
Erwin Tschirner und Olaf Bärenfänger
The ILR Scale – a Half-Century of Insights
What happens when a unique situation arises and a truly new testing system must be created? This presentation looks at the requirements that occasioned the devising of the US Government’s Interagency Language (ILR) Scale in the mid-1950s and how it has fared ever since. Initially, outsiders questioned its feasibility and effectiveness. The presenter, who wrote the first full scale Oral Proficiency Interview (OPI) manual and co-authored the handbook on text evaluation according to the ILR scale, has at various times sat, been chair or co-chair of most of the ILR committees, as well as been a member of the committees that revise the extant ILR Language Skill Level Descriptions and help on those that have created the newest ones. He has trained both the initial generation of OPI testers and trainers at the Defense Language Institute’s Foreign Language Center (Monterey, CA) as well as the initial generation of OPI testers and trainers at American Council for teaching Foreign Language. Moreover, he trained both these groups in text evaluation. In this presentation he delves into the „hows“ and „whys“ of the ILR scale’s working and shares both some of its quirks and some of the ways in which it has proved revolutionary, seminal, and transformative!
The Scripted Oral Interview: Can Technology and Advanced Psychometrics Improve its Potential?
Learning to listen: To caption or not?
“Machen Lernerkorpora Schule?” (“Are Learner Corpora Catching On?”)
Location: Neuer Senatssaal, Ritterstraße 26, 04109 Leipzig
Time: June 6, 2016, 5:00 p.m.
More information on Prof. Dr. Thomas Studer can be found here.
“Die Entwicklung mündlicher Kompetenz
während eines Semesters im Ausland
und an der Heimatuniversität.” (The development of oral language skills during a semester abroad and at the student’s home university.)
Bärenfänger, Olaf
Goethe-Instituts Prag und DAAD Prag 11. Dez.
Möhring, Jupp; Wisniewski, Katrin
DZHW, online 07. – 08. Dez.
Möhring, Jupp
Friedrich-Schiller-Universität, Jena. 07. Feb.
Bärenfänger, Olaf
telc, Frankfurt a. M. 11, Apr.
Bärenfänger, Olaf
telc, Frankfurt a. M. 4, Apr.
Bärenfänger, Olaf
BAMF, Berlin 24, Jan.
Bärenfänger, Olaf
telc, Frankfurt a. M. 4, Jan.
Tschirner, Erwin
Workshop Language Testing International (LTI), White Plains (NY), USA 7, Sep.
Tschirner, Erwin
Workshop Foreign Service Institute (FSI), Arlington (VA), USA 21, Aug.
Tschirner, Erwin
Workshop TU München, Sprachenzentrum 27, Apr.
Bärenfänger, Olaf; Ide, Robin
Genossenschaft Migros Zürich, Schweiz 13-16, Feb.
Möhring, Jupp
Andalusische Germanistenverband AGA, Universidade de Sevilla, Sevilla, Spanien
Tschirner, Erwin; Bärenfänger, Olaf
Workshop bei Naval Special Warfare, Coronado, CA, USA 16.-17. Mai.
Möhring, Jupp
Leitung der Arbeitsgruppe “Testen und Prüfen” (gemeinsam mit Albrecht Klemm), Universität Leipzig, Deutschland
Bärenfänger, Olaf
Weiterbildung für FremdsprachenlehrerInnen, Dresden, Deutschland
Bärenfänger, Olaf
Workshop am Sprachenzentrum der Universität Leipzig, Deutschland