Former research
100 mots pour faire le tour de l’Europe / “Around Europe with 100 words”
Funding: SOCRATES-LINGUA project, which received funding from the European CommissionDuration: 2006-2008 (+ info)
Competences for organizing discourse-in-interaction & science learning: analyzing knowledge building as activity of collaborative inquiring
The developmentally sensitive project set-up (joint activity and concept-construction-in-discourse by young children) provides ecologically valid insights into the fundaments of scientific reasoning, information structuring in discourse-in-interaction, their micro-development and ways of pedagogical exploitation within multilingual learning contexts at a sensitive age.
Coordination:
Prof. Dr. Charles Max
Funding:
University of Luxembourg
Duration:
2008-2011
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Diagnostic competence of primary school teachers in estimating future school achievements: A social cognitive analysis - DKGE
The objective of this project is to investigate the diagnostic competence of teachers regarding the placement of students in different school tracks.
Coordination:
Prof. Dr. Sabine Krolak-Schwerdt
Collaborators:
Dipl.-Psych.
Thomas Hörstermann
In cooperation with:
Prof. Dr. Cornelia Gräsel (Bergische Universität Wuppertal, BUW) and Dipl.-Psych. Ines Nölle (BUW)
Funding:
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG)
Duration:
2008-2011
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FUNDAmental LUXembourgish - in early plurilingual learning settings
Coordination: Associate Prof. Dr. Gudrun Ziegler (until 31 August 2011)Collaborators: Natalia Maria Durus, Olcay Sert, Dr. Neiloufar Family
Funding: University of Luxembourg
Duration: 2009–2012 (+ info)
Langues en Contact dans l’Espace et dans le Temps et leur impact sur le milieu Scolaire au Luxembourg
The LACETS research project focuses on developing a greater understanding of the relationship between the multilingual education objectives in Luxembourg and the diversity of language practices of its children.
Coordination:
Associate Prof. Dr. Sabine Ehrhart
Collaborators:
Dr. Adam Le Nevez, Renate Leibenath,
Rahel Stoike
Funding:
University of Luxembourg
Duration:
2008-2011
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ProDIC-Discourse Structures and Dis-/Integration in Education: Promotion of Critical Discourse Competencies
The project fits into the thematic priority “Identities, Diversity and Integration”. Building on prior research activities that gave insight into the characteristics of Luxembourg’s schools and society as well as into the arising dynamics of change, the project aims at elaborating critical concepts of social agency inside this specific socio-cultural context.
Coordination:
Dr. Carola Mick
Funding:
Fonds National de la Recherche (FNR)
Duration:
2010-2011
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Republican and Non-republican Imaginations: Comparative Visions and Developments of Schooling from the 18th Century to 1930
Three overlapping motives set the central research question in this project.
Coordination:
Prof. Dr. Daniel Tröhler
Funding:
Swiss National Science Foundation (SNF), Swiss Academy of Humanities and Social Sciences (SAGW)
Duration:
2004-2011
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The Plurilingual Portfolio: a transdisciplinary tool for discourse analysis in language and literature classes
Portfolios holding students’ productions in all the school languages should promote their language awareness and improve the learning process.
Duration:
Marie-Anne Hansen-Pauly
Funding:
University of Luxembourg, MENPF
Duration:
2007-2011
Partners
: language teachers of the Lycée Classique Diekirch
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Computer Edition/Complete Edition of Eduard Spranger’s correspondence with Käthe Hadlich (1903-1960)
The correspondence between the German Philosopher Eduard Spranger and his close female friend Käthe Hadlich contains 14 000 letters, which cover the time frame from 1903-1960. The letters will be transcribed and integrated in a digital text archive of the Bibliothek für Bildungsgeschichtliche Forschung in Berlin (Scripta Paedagogica Online) to support subsequent research in the History of Education and German Studies.Coordination: Associate Prof. Dr. Karin Priem
Collaborators: „Bibliothek für Bildungsgeschichtliche Forschung“ (Berlin) and Klaus-Peter Horn (Tübingen University)
Funding: German Research Foundation (DFG)
Duration: 2007-2011
Children's multilingualism up to 9 years: language diversity, learning Luxembourgish and emergent literacies
Funding: Fonds National de la Recherche LuxembourgDuration: May 2003-September 2007 (+ info)
CLIL across Contexts: A scaffolding framework for CLIL teacher education
Funding: University of Luxembourg, European Union, MENPFDuration: 2006-2009 (+ info)
Création, maintenance et animation d’un portail électronique permettant l’établissement d’une communauté d’utilisateurs autour de productions orales et multimodales dans le cadre d’une éducation bilingue/trilingue/multilingue – TEO 2
Funding: University of LuxembourgDuration: 2008-2009 (+ info)
Deepening the socio-cultural micro-analysis of activities in language and literacy learning
Funding: University of LuxembourgDuration: 2007 (+ info)
Discourse Competences: Perspectives on Learning at the Primary and Secondary School
Funding: Fonds National de la RechercheDuration: 2008-2009 (+ info)
Discourse Structures and Dis-/Integration in Education
Postdoc project
Funding:
Fonds National de la Recherche
Duration:
2007-2009
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Evaluation of computer-based language learning offers
Duration: 1999-2009 (+ info)Hook up ! – Campus Europae Foreign Language Learning Gateway
The European Commission’s evaluation reports all point out the fact that acquiring foreign language skills is an absolute necessity. However, the belief that mobility is sufficient to bring about quality language acquirement has been proven wrong by various studies on mobility.
Coordination:
Prof. Dr. Charles Max
Ass.-Prof. Dr. Gudrun Ziegler
MA. Line Eskildsen
Funding:
Lifelong Learning Programme of the European Commission
Duration:
2008-2010
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Judgment biases of teachers: How attributes of students influences teacher judgments
Post doctoral research project
Coordination:
Dr. Julia E. Herfordt-Stöpel
Funding:
Fonds National de la Recherche
Duration:
2008-2009
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Language Use and Language Learning in Multilingual Affinity Spaces
The project explores the language use and language learning of luso-descendant teenagers in Luxembourg.
Coordination:
Prof. Dr. Jean-Jacques WEBER
Funding:
University of Luxembourg
Duration:
2008-2010
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LANQUA – language network for quality assurance
The practice of CLIL is assuming ever greater prominence in European higher education which is likely to accelerate with the emergence of the European higher education area
Coordination:
Anca GREERE
Funding:
European Commission
Duration
: 2007-2010
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Les compétences d'organisation du discours dans l'interaction
Funding: SRF - Swiss Research FundDuration: jan. 2006 - dec. 2008 (+ info)
QUACE Quality Management in Cross-Border Education SaarLorLuxWal (SOCRATES)
Funding: SOCRATES Programme of the European CommissionDuration: 2006-2008 (+ info)
Plurilingual literacies: Analysing literacy events as learning contexts
This was the follow-up project of the FNR research on plurilingualism of children in Luxembourg (Portante et al. 2007) that allowed to elaborate first descriptions and interpretations of modes of participation of children with diverse linguistic backgrounds in literacy events within classroom-settings related to the learning of Luxembourgish, German and of French languages.
Coordination:
Prof. Dr. Dominique PORTANTE
Funding:
University of Luxembourg
Duration:
2007-2010
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Processes of Collaborative Learning among Siblings
How do children collaboratively learn by participating in literacy or other events at home?
Coordination:
Associate Prof. Dr. Patrick SUNNEN
Funding:
University of Luxembourg
Duration:
2008-2010
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Séminaire sur la formation d’enseignants de langue
Funding: European CommissionDuration: 2008-2009 (+ info)
The history of the modern public school in Zurich
Funding: Teacher College Zurich and different private foundationsDuration: 2003-2008 (+ info)
The judgment of school achievements as a social cognitive process: Is the occurrence of judgment biases caused by heuristics and moderated by processing goals? - SLSK
The objective of this project is to investigate how and under which conditions judgment biases occur in educational achievement judgments.
Coordination:
Prof. Dr. Sabine Krolak-Schwerdt
Collaborators:
Dr. Matthias Böhmer
In cooperation with:
Prof. Dr. Cornelia Gräsel (Bergische Universität Wupertal, BUW) and Dipl.-Psych. Kathrin Dünnebier (BUW)
Funding:
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG)
Duration:
2007-2010
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