Training workshop “Lebensweltliche Mehrsprachigkeit und Schule. Unterrichtsmaterialien für den Fremdsprachenunterricht im Berliner Kontext”
ECML training and consultancy event in Germany
Date: 24-25 June 2025
Venue: Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany
Local organisers: HU Berlin : Daniel Reimann, Christian Koch
ECML experts: Michel Candelier, Anna Schröder-Sura
Participants: 30+ participants – foreign language teachers (secondary level), romance language students
 

Anna Schröder-Sura and Michel Candelier moderated  a workshop on the Framework of Reference for Pluralistic Approaches (FREPA) on 24 and 25 June 2025, at  the Humboldt University of Berlin. The aim of the workshop was to offer a foundation for designing new Berlin-based reference frameworks focused on plurilingual competence. Thirty participants, mostly foreign language teachers in Berlin secondary schools, were introduced to the FREPA  tools. Two new elements stood out in this workshop: the systematic integration of learners’ entire linguistic repertoires – particularly languages of migration – in work using pluralistic approaches, and the use of the new FREPA database, which provides numerous examples of materials in this area. The workshop was further enriched through presentations from the organisers, Daniel Reimann and Christian Koch (both teacher-researchers in the didactics of Romance languages and literature at Humboldt University of Berlin), on the linguistic situation in Berlin and resources related to heritage languages. In  addition, Lasse Birger Bohn (teacher-researcher in Romance language didactics at the University of Siegen) contributed with a talk on the use of FREPA descriptors in the design of teaching materials.

Participants’ feedback reflected the valuable contribution the workshop made to the development of linguistically responsive teaching, the establishment of internal school curricula, and the networking between Berlin schools and Humboldt University.

Authors: Christian Koch, Daniel Reimann

• More information about the training and consultancy offer of the ECML for member states:
  Plurilingual and intercultural education: teacher and learner competences"

Deutsche Version

Fortbildung zum Thema „Lebensweltliche Mehrsprachigkeit und Schule. Unterrichtsmaterialien für den Fremdsprachenunterricht im Berliner Kontext“
EFSZ-Fortbildungs- und Beratungsveranstaltung in Deutschland
Datum: 24.-25. Juni 2025
Ort: Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Deutschland
Organisation vor Ort: HU Berlin: Daniel Reimann, Christian Koch
EFSZ-Expert:innen: Michel Candelier, Anna Schröder-Sura
Teilnehmende: über 30 Teilnehmende – Fremdsprachenlehrkräfte (Sekundarstufe), Studierende der Romanistik

Lebensweltliche Mehrsprachigkeit im REPA

Anna Schröder-Sura und Michel Candelier haben am 24. und 25. Juni 2025 an der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin einen Workshop zum Referenzrahmen für plurale Ansätze durchgeführt. Der Workshop sollte als Angebot zur Gestaltung der neuen Berliner Rahmenstandards zur plurilingualen Kompetenz dienen. Insgesamt 30 Teilnehmende, von denen der Großteil als Fremdsprachenlehrkräfte an Berliner Sekundarschulen tätig ist, konnten dabei aus erster Hand Einblicke in die Instrumente des REPA erhalten. Zwei neue Aspekte prägten den Workshop: die konsequente Einbindung des gesamten Sprachenrepertoires der Lernenden – insbesondere der Sprachen der Migration – in die Arbeit mit den pluralen Ansätzen und die Arbeit mit der neuen REPA-Datenbank, die hierfür vielfältige Materialbeispiele liefert. Abgerundet wurde der Workshop durch Einführungen der Organisatoren Daniel Reimann und Christian Koch (beide Didaktik der Romanischen Sprachen und Literaturen der HU Berlin) zur sprachlichen Situation in Berlin und zu Ressourcen zu Herkunftssprachen sowie durch einen Beitrag von Lasse Birger Bohn (Didaktik der romanischen Sprachen an der Universität Siegen) zur Nutzung von REPA-Deskriptoren in der Materialgestaltung.

Den Rückmeldungen der Teilnehmenden zufolge konnte der Workshop einen wertvollen Beitrag zur sprachsensiblen Unterrichtsgestaltung, zur Entwicklung schulinterner Fachcurricula sowie zur Vernetzung zwischen Berliner Schulen und der Humboldt-Universität leisten.

Autoren: Christian Koch, Daniel Reimann

The ECML offers its member states European expertise in language education adapted to the concrete needs and specific contexts within individual countries. This bilateral support in a range of key areas helps strengthen the cooperation between member states and the ECML by taking the expertise gained from ECML projects directly into member states. ECML experts work with national authorities and local experts to devise and implement in-country activities, tailored to the particular context and target audience.  For 2025 a number of new areas are on offer which  build on the results of projects run within the Inspiring innovation in language education programme (2020-23). Please note that activities offered in cooperation with the European Commission are subject to a separate Call for requests which will be issued in late November.

The  following  ECML training and consultancy activities are on offer for 2025:

• Plurilingual and intercultural education: teacher and learner competences
• Steps towards implementing plurilingual and intercultural education
• Plurilingual and intercultural education in early language learning
• The CEFR Companion Volume: Mediation and other key concepts – Focus: teacher and learner competences  
• The CEFR Companion Volume: Mediation and other key concepts – Focus: curriculum and evaluation
• Learning environments where languages flourish – Focus: Plurilingual and intercultural education
• Learning environments where languages flourish – Focus: Early language learning
• Action research communities for language teachers
• Fostering digital citizenship through language education
• Language for work – Work-related second language learning for adult migrants and ethnic minorities
• Beyond CLIL – Pluriliteracies teaching for deeper learning
• A roadmap for schools to support the language(s) of schooling

Details of the proposed activities, practical information and the application form can be found here: www.ecml.at/Trainingandconsultancy.

Requests for a Training and consultancy activity must be submitted via the national ECML representative in the Governing Board. Educational professionals interested in a particular activity should therefore contact their national representative.

The application deadline for 2025 is 15 November 2024.

Date and venue: 11 April 2024, Grenoble-Alpes University, France
Local organisation: Academic Steering Committee for Modern Languages and Academic School for Continuing Education
ECML experts: Béatrice Leonforte (Switzerland) and Michel Candelier (France)
Participants: 120 - supervisory staff and trainers from primary and secondary schools

In the presence of ECML experts (Michel Candelier and Béatrice Leonforte) and academics from the Lidilem laboratory at Grenoble Alpes University, a seminar on pluralistic approaches to languages and cultures was attended by 120 managers and trainers from the Grenoble education authority. This seminar, which took a resolutely cross-curricular approach, enabled primary and secondary school teachers to become aware of the work already underway in the field of pluralistic approaches to languages, as well as benefiting from high-level scientific contributions, discovering numerous examples of activities and acquiring new resources.

This workshop, organised with the strong support of the ECML, consolidated what already exists and opened up fruitful avenues of work for the future – in particular by outlining prospects for work in nursery schools, CLIL (Content and Language Integrated Learning) classes, mathematics, vocational training or as part of bilanguage continuity classes (classes of 6ème pupils who have benefited from the teaching of two modern languages at primary level). The participants appreciated this time for taking a step back, exchanging ideas and reflecting, which gave them the desire to go further in developing the plurilingual and pluricultural skills promoted by the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages.

Frédéric Bablon, Diana-Lee Simon, Jean-Christophe Larbaud

• FREPA: A framework of reference for pluralistic approaches to languages and cultures
• More information about the training and consultancy offer of the ECML for member states: “Plurilingual and intercultural approaches – A didactic tool for integrated plurilingual and intercultural education”