Language acquisition at school during the transition from primary to secondary school (MSE)

From primary-school level onwards, all pupils in Switzerland are taught a second national language and, in addition, English as a foreign language. The project that is jointly conducted by the PHSG and the FHNW School of Education and funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation investigates the reading, writing and oral skills of pupils in grades 6 and 7 in the subjects of German, French and English (compulsory languages in schools in the German-speaking part of Switzerland). For this purpose, it takes several personal characteristics of the pupils into account and pursues the question as to how their language skills develop during the transition from primary to secondary school. Moreover, the project seeks to examine the extent to which the pupils’ knowledge of other languages benefits them when they learn a foreign language.

Institute	Institute of Research on Teaching Profession and on Development of Competencies
Heads	Professor Christian Brühwiler (PHSG) Professor Mirjam Egli Cuenat (PH FHNW) Professor Christine Le Pape Racine (PH FHNW) Professor Giuseppe Manno (PH FHNW, principal applicant)
Team	Professor Anja Gebhardt (PHSG) Professor Lukas Bleichenbacher (PHSG)
Projekt partner	FHNW School of Education (PH FHNW)
Duration	1 January 2014 to 31 July 2017
Financing	Schweizerischer Nationalfonds (SNF)

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Publications

Manno, G, Egli Cuenat, M., Le Pape Racine, C. & Brühwiler, C. (Hrsg.). (in Vorbereitung). Schulischer Mehrsprachenerwerb am Übergang zwischen Primarstufe und Sekundarstufe I. Münster: Waxmann.
Brühwiler, C. & Le Pape Racine, C. (2017): Entwicklung motivationaler Orientierungen beim multiplen Erwerb von Französisch und Englisch als Fremdsprachen am Übergang von der Primarstufe in die Sekundarstufe I. Zeitschrift für Interkulturellen Fremdsprachenunterricht, 22 (1), 167-181.
Manno, G., Egli Cuenat, M., Le Pape Racine, C. & Brühwiler, C. (2016): Schulischer Mehrsprachenerwerb am Übergang zwischen Primarstufe und Sekundarstufe I – Forschungsdesign und erste Erkenntnisse einer empirischen Studie, Zeitschrift für Fremdsprachenforschung, 27 (2), 225-282.
Manno, G., Egli Cuenat, M., Le Pape Racine, C. & Brühwiler, C. (2016): Schulischer Mehrsprachenerwerb am Übergang zwischen Primarstufe und Sekundarstufe I, Babylonia, (3), 14-15.

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