Multilingual Classrooms
Understanding teachers’ knowledge, attitudes and behaviours towards multilingualism and the challenges of multilingual classrooms
Europe is becoming increasingly multilingual. This brings many benefits and also many challenges, both curricular and organisational, to schools and classrooms. According to PISA 2015, 12.5% of the 15+ year-old students across the OECD countries had an immigrant background. This presents diverse challenges to schools, and especially to teachers.
Through a questionnaire for teachers, the Multilingual Group of the European Literacy Network (COST Action IS1401) is seeking to obtain and analyse information about teachers’ knowledge, attitudes and behaviours with regard to multilingualism.
Project coordinator:
Charles Mifsud, Malta
Julie Dockrell, UK
Timothy Papadopoulus, Cyprus
Rositsa Petrova, Malta
Project coordinator in Austria: Univ.-Prof. Dr. Barbara Gasteiger-Klicpera
Co-workers und contact person: Dipl.-Sprachwiss. Susanne Seifert, PhD und Mag.a Edvina Bešić, PhD