The Rediscovery of Spelling Vocabulary - Spelling Instruction between Policy, Practice and Science.
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28.02. - 01.03.2019 in Kassel
Education policy has rediscovered a fixed set of predetermined words for spelling instruction - called basic vocabulary, minimum vocabulary, spelling vocabulary, or basic vocabulary. This approach focuses on improving children's spelling skills. The rediscovery of the spelling vocabulary is interesting, since it was only abolished in the 1990s in Hesse, as in some other German states. The question now arises as to what educational policy expectations are associated with its reintroduction.
The symposium with representatives from school politics, science and practice will discuss the chances and risks of the new approach. It will be asked what ideas of spelling instruction and learning are associated with a spelling vocabulary and what can be said about the effectiveness of the work with it. In addition, classroom practice and teachers' views of spelling instruction will be addressed. Here, it will be discussed how classroom work with a spelling vocabulary of German in multilingual and heterogeneous classrooms is organized and what demands are placed on teachers. And finally, the educational policy self-conception of teaching will be discussed. Why does policy focus on a spelling vocabulary? Here, we will also ask which linguistic expressions and meanings shape the discourse on elementary school teaching.
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