University of Cologne

KvDaZ-concept

#KvDaZ - Enabling all children and teenagers with limited knowledge of the German language to participate quickly in education and society.

The didactical structure

C

such as communication topic and occasion

Children and teenagers learn new words in social situations and in communicatively meaningful contexts. This is why the communicative approach forms the didactic framework of the concept.


A significant context is, for example, reading books together.

P

such as pragmatic skills

With the focus on pragmatic skills, the implementation of the communicative approach can be systematized. It is about supporting a flexible use of language.

 

C

such as core vocabulary

The focus is on the core vocabulary. It includes 200 words that make up 80% of everyday language (Boenisch 2014). This vocabulary forms a powerful base for the development of educational language.

 

A video all about the didactic structur of KvDaZ - the KPK

 

A video all about the Cologne Box - the didactic material to use KvDaZ systematically

 

12 strategies

The implementation of the KvDaZ concept is supported by twelve strategies. These include supportive framework conditions and language-supportive behaviors.

 

Publication

Fretter, D. & Lingk, L. (2022). Auf dem Weg zur Bildungssprache. Förderliche Rahmenbedingungen für die anfängliche Sprachförderung bei Deutsch als Zweitsprache am Beispiel des KvDaZ-Konzepts. Zeitschrift für Heilpädagogik (5), 229-239. Online hier zu finden.

Dietz, N. (2020). "Please Mind the Gap!". KvDaZ hilft Übergänge fließend zu gestalten. Unterstützte Kommunikation, 1, 30 - 32.

Fretter, D., Lingk, L. & Heitmann, L. (2020). Unterstützte Kommunikation und Deutsch als Zweitsprache am Beispiel des KvDaZ-Konzepts. Unterstützte Kommunikation, 1, 23-29.

Heitmann, L., Fretter D. & Lingk, L. (2019). Deutsch lernen mit Kernvokabular. zmi-magazin, Dez/2019, 22-23.

Lingk, L., Fretter, D. & Heitmann, L. (2019). Kernvokabular im anfänglichen Erwerb von Deutsch als Zweitsprache. Lernen konkret. Migrationsspezifische Aspekte für den FgE. (3), 18-21.

Related Links

As an official cooperation partner of the university-based FBZ-UK, FBZ gGmbH offers materials and training on this topic, which you can find here.