5A. Background text II on current pedagogy: education and school related considerations
Wiltrud Weidinger 1. Introduction The school systems in Central, Northern and Western Europe are shaped by the social paradigms and key issues in educational policy as explained in the previous chapter. They represent a certain guideline as …
Read more5B. Practice section: HLT teachers report on how they dealt with the new teaching culture
1. Božena Alebić: My experience in dealing with the principle of individualization Božena Alebić hails from Croatia (Split). She worked from 2004–2008 and 2010–2014 as HLT teacher of Croatian in Zürich. In teaching Croatian abroad, it is …
Read more5C. Ideas for the discussion of educational and school related aspects
Please skim through chapter 5 once more after you’ve read it and consider/discuss: Which of the described pedagogical principles are known to you from your own training, which ones are rather new to you? …
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