A new concept for bilingual teaching (French) is being tested and evaluated in two elementary schools in Landau. The concept is being implemented in the first grades of the participating schools: Instead of the fixed class system with one bilingual class per grade, a course system is being implemented in which bilingual subjects are taught in parallel in German and French.

The motivation for changing the system was the strong demand for bilingual education, primarily from academically educated parents, which led to a perceived formation of elites within the grades. With the help of this new course system, the aim is to achieve greater permeability between regular and bilingual education on the one hand, and to avoid the choice of bilingual education due to different class compositions on the other.

A key challenge for teachers is to organize lessons that are structured in parallel for the entire grade. This structure opens up new opportunities for differentiation in the classroom, but requires much closer cooperation between all teachers involved than has been the case to date.

The Center for Empirical Educational Research (zepf) is supporting this project and will survey the faculty in this context.

Contact person

• Prof. Dr. Ingmar Hosenfeld, Dipl.-Psych.

Project staff

• Rike Wöste, M.Sc. Psych.