Language Promotion in the Primary School
At DISD, children with very different source languages and German language levels learn together. As a German international school abroad, we are proud of our linguistic diversity and support the multilingual development of our student with a great deal of expertise and commitment. Children with increased language support needs are also supported by the DaF language support team.
The acquisition of everyday and educational German takes several years. This learning process depends on various factors. At DISD, the quality of the individual language acquisition process is determined by good cooperation between the class teacher, language support teacher and parents.
To ensure that our student have the same learning opportunities despite their different language levels, they are offered different learning paths in class in order to achieve the class learning objectives and develop their full potential. The teachers at the Primary School therefore plan their educational work not only from a subject-specific perspective, but always with language sensitivity in mind.
Language-sensitive teaching is the core element of consistent language education and provides linguistic support and learning opportunities in order to support and promote all student with German language support needs in the classroom in the best possible way.
The teacher focuses on the individual language level and language skills of their student and formulates appropriate language and content-related goals. Through well-founded support measures (article points, repetitions, word lists, language-sensitive methods), content is prepared in such a way that all student can understand it. student learn in a stimulating and pleasant language environment in which vocabulary, grammar etc. is visualized in the classroom. Vocabulary is reinforced through playful material (lotto, memory, dominoes, quizzes), especially digital learning.
The DISD concept for reading promotion focuses on the personalized learning of student and also takes cooperative forms of learning into account. Because student with increased language support needs require additional support beyond the teaching methods described, the Primary School also has a German as a foreign language team.
DaF - Language Promotion in the Primary School
The class teachers and language support staff work closely together. Based on feedback from the class teacher and a standardized language level assessment by the DaF teacher, a decision is made on the support of the student within the framework of additive DaF support, which is carried out once a week in small groups. Care is taken to ensure that the children do not miss any lessons from the main subjects. A further support lesson takes place in the classroom.
The language support worker practises the content from the lessons with the children where the class teacher has identified language gaps. This enables us to provide Language Promotion within the school that is quantitatively and qualitatively adapted to the needs of the student in order to support them individually. In addition, the language promotion department designs additional weekly tasks that should also be used for practice and consolidation during non-school hours.
The Language Promotion in the Primary School is not associated with additional costs.
Cooperation with parents
Language-sensitive teaching and additional language support contribute significantly to language development. However, extracurricular time in the afternoons, at weekends and during the Holidays must also be used to ensure student' learning progress. The greater the language influence, the greater the learning gains will be.
To this end, it is essential that parents support their child in listening, reading and speaking German, even when they are not at school. Parents are involved in this process in order to ensure that all parties involved are interlinked and thus the best possible individual support can be guaranteed. Ultimately, student' motivation to learn increases when parents and teachers attach importance to the learning content.
If you have any questions, please contact our language support team at the Primary School:
