14A. Background text on the professional development of HLT instructors
Basil Schader (14 A.1 and A.3); Nuhi Gashi (A.2); Elisabeth Furch and Elfie Fleck (A.4) 1. Introduction HLT instructors work in an environment for which they are mostly not prepared, based on their education in the country …
Read more14B. Practice section: Reports from different countries on the professional development of HLT teachers
1. Sami Thaçi, Germany Sami Thaçi hails from Kosovo/Kosova. He lives in Wuppertal and has been working as HLT instructor of Albanian since 1987 in Wuppertal, Remscheid and other communities. Excerpts from his statement: In Germany, HLT …
Read more14C. Ideas for the discussion of professional development for HLT instructors
Please consider and discuss what your needs for continuing education were/are in your work as HLT instructor (at the beginning of your career, after a while, now). Which contents and themes were of interest …
Read moreTable of Contents
- Preface to the series “Materials for heritage language teaching”
- Concerning the handbook and workbook “Foundations and backgrounds”
- Acknowledgements
- Ι. Heritage language teaching (HLT): character, specifics, goals, challenges
- II. Key issues of current pedagogy, didactics and methodology from the perspective of the host countries
- 3. Key aspects of good teaching: a summary overview
- 4. Key issues of pedagogy in the host countries: overarching “ideological” points of consensus
- 5. Key aspects of current pedagogy in the host countries: education and school related considerations
- 6. Key aspects of current didactics and methodology in the host countries: selecting adequate teaching and learning methods
- 7. Key aspects of current didactics and methodology in the host countries: educationally-oriented performance evaluation
- 8. Key aspects of current didactics and methodology in the host countries: comprehensive language promotion
- III. HLT - specific focal points
- IV. Info-section: background, problem areas
- 13. HLT in various host countries and linkage with their school systems: overview, facts, models
- 14. Professional development of HLT instructors: needs, models
- 15. Studies on the effectiveness of heritage language teaching – state of research, research problems, need for research
- 16. Conclusion: optimal HLT instruction - a vision for the future
- Authors referenced in Part A