Current Projects

The aim of the meta-project is to link the work of the funded projects, to network groups of stakeholders, to conduct its own research on multilingualism and transfer, and to disseminate project results in a target group-oriented manner.

The aim of the project is to establish an interdisciplinary and international discourse and research network as a basis for research on the learning situation of newly immigrated d/Deaf and hard-of-hearing students, their educational support and the further development of teacher education and training.

The aims of the project are to gain general information about the classroom situation of newly immigrated d/Deaf and hard-of-hearing students, to strengthen the teacher training in the Master's program for Special Education students with this specialty and to intensify the interdisciplinary work between the areas of Special Education and DaZ in teaching and research at the University of Cologne.

The aim of the project is to analyze the linguistic development of newly immigrated students in the school language German, the foreign language English, and the first language Russian and to what extent their linguistic competencies are interlingually related.

The overall goal of the "Schule macht stark" initiative is to improve the educational opportunities of socially disadvantaged schoolchildren. The Mercator Institute, together with its partners, is focusing on a sub-project in the field of teaching development. It supports the teachers of participating schools, helping them plan and conduct their lessons such that all pupils can achieve basic standards of literacy and numeracy.

The initiative’s objective is the science-based transfer of concepts for language education, reading and writing support in up to 2700 schools and nurseries in Germany.

The aim of the research network ("Forschungsnetzwerk BiSS-Transfer") is to gain reliable insights into how scientifically evaluated measures to promote language education can be successfully transferred into schools and which conditions should be in place for them to best exert impact on the various levels of the education system.

The aim of the overall project is to promote digital competences of teachers. The research groups of the Mercator Institute and Bielefeld University focus in this regard on the promotion of digital skills in the context of teaching German as a second language and Content and Language Integrated Learning.

The project aims to investigate the implementation of digital writing tools in subject-matter instruction. Empirically based results should help pupils to use these tools effectively to produce texts.

The project aims to develop and provide an annotated vocabulary, that is based on linguistics and language teaching realized as web-based application – and to which the target groups can relate their questions in order to gain founded vocabulary for the grades 1 to 10.

The aim of the project is to examine the professional competencies of teachers in school and adult education who teach German as a second language in linguistically heterogeneous learning groups.

The project’s objective is to develop a test method able to assess the writing skills of pupils aged 10 to 15 at all types of school.