Sprachsensible Bildungsräume gestalten – Eine Professionalisierungsaufgabe der Lehrer/-innenbildung

This article focuses on linguistic-sensitive approaches to educational settings in teacher training programs. The issues addressed in this context refer to the increasing heterogeneity in school and university students. Against this background, it is considered a professional necessity that schools and universities help their (pre-service) teachers both with improving their own text and discourse competencies and with the development of proper knowledge and skills to systematically enhance the text and discourse competencies in their students, also by taking into account the development of subject-specific competencies. The ideas presented here are based on the results of a joint research project („AkaTex“) funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research and on the first results of an Akatex transfer project („SiFu“) funded by the University of Siegen in cooperation with the upper secondary levels of two schools.