Erfolgreich integrieren

Résumé

Placing newly-arrived children and adolescents appropriately in Swiss schools while accounting for their school knowledge and skills in their first language is increasingly relevant for schools with regard to rising numbers of refugees. In the coming two years, the FHNW School of Education and the publisher “Schulverlag plus” will develop materials for the assessment of school-related linguistic competences of newly-arrived children and adolescents who do not speak German. The new product is a successor to the publication „Erfolgreich integriert?“ (Gyger & Heckendorn, 1999) and includes the template „Kopiervorlagen Aufnahme und Einschulung“. The material enables observation and assessment of linguistic knowledge and skills in the most relevant immigrant languages of Switzerland today. It is primarily directed at teachers specialized in German as a second language and mother tongue instructors and interpreters. This contribution presents some of the basic conceptual considerations related to the development of the material.