1. Promoting intercultural competence in HLT: reasons and significance
Children and adolescents in the migration destination countries (as well as in many places elsewhere) grow up in culturally and linguistically very heterogenous contexts. This diversity is most of all reflected in the context of …
Read more2. Goals and structure of this volume
The present guide supports the HLT students and instructors by means of exemplary themes in the development of intercultural competences. These should enable the children and adolescents to become capable of acting in the confrontation …
Read more3. Competence orientation in HLT education
The competence orientation as an important principle of current pedagogy is described in detail in the handbook “Foundations and backgrounds” (chapters 2, 5 and 9. For the topic of the present volume, three competences in …
Read more4. The living world concept as an important foundation
The importance of orienting pedagogy and teaching on the actual living world of the students was referenced multiple times in the handbook “Foundations and backgrounds”; see most of all chapters 5.4 and 2.3. The orientation …
Read moreTable of Contents
- Preface to the series “Materials for heritage language teaching”
- Introduction
- Unit 1: culture and identity – alike and yet different!
- Unit 2: migration stories – the world in our classroom
- Unit 3: our languages – we speak more than one language!
- Introduction
- 3.1. Language outlines
- 3.2. Bilingual or multilingual writing projects
- 3.3. Language-biographical themes
- 3.4. Using electronic media in different languages
- 3.5. Dialects in our language and other languages
- 3.6. Correspondence to intercultural questions
- 3.7. Language use: different, depending on the context!
- Unit 4: intercultural communication – getting along with each other
- Unit 5: conflicts – seeking resolutions together
- Unit 6: democracy and children’s rights: we get involved!
- Bibliography