Centre for teachers’ language competences

The centre conducts research, development, consulting and in-service education in the area of teachers’ language competences (foreign languages and the language of schooling). The activities build on preliminary projects financed by the Federal Office of Culture in which the profession-related language competence profiles for foreign language teachers were developed.

Two of the specialist unit’s current focal areas are the formative and summative assessment of these language competences, for which an online platform was created in 2015-2017, and the piloting and further development of the language competence profiles for other educational contexts.

Institute	Institute of Language and Literary Education
Head	Prof. Dr. Lukas Bleichenbacher
Team	Catherine Diederich, Robert Hilbe, Wilfrid Kuster, Thomas Roderer , Olivia Rütti-Joy, Christian Sinn (language of schooling), Sandrine Wild (PHSG), Dietlinde Ebeling, Brigitte Forster Vosicki, Pascal Schweitzer (UniL, Centre des langues), Germana D’Alessio, Daniela Kappler (SUPSI-DFA), Olivier Bolomey, Rosanna Margonis-Pasinetti (HEP Vaud), Peter Lenz (UNIFR; RCM)
Project partners	PHSG Institute for Language Teacher Education: Leading House University of Applied Sciences and Arts of Southern Switzerland (SUPSI), University of Teacher Education, State of Vaud, Lausanne (HEP Vaud), University of Lausanne (UNIL), EDK, University of Fribourg (main consulting)
Duration	2017 to 2020
Financing	State Secretariat for Education, Research and Innovation SERI (HEdA, Article 59)