Forschung und Publikationen / Research and Publications

For students

Primary school teacher students have the option of enrolling in a research and development module in the course of their studies.
An e-learning unit that forms part of the module «Teaching foreign languages» is developed in cooperation with the Department of French.

Lecturers

lic. phil. Ruth Keller is carrying out research on standard-referenced assessment of productive second language skills (together with Sandra Hutterli of the French department) and is a member of the second language consortium of the EDK-project HarmoS.
Käthi Staufer is involved in the research project «Applying standards of communicative competence to formative and summative assessment in foreign language teaching».
Prof. Dr. Michael Prusse is involved in the evaluation of the bilingual matura (German-English) in the Canton of Zurich. The research project is run by the Institute of Pedagogy of the University of Zurich in cooperation with the Zurich University of Teacher Education.
Brigitte Achermann, Keith Sprague, Käthi Staufer and Prof. Dr. Daniel Stotz are developing the new English materials «Explorers» for grades 4–6.
Prof. Dr. Daniel Stotz and his assistant, Patrik Fischli are carrying out a research project in the National Research Programme 56 on «Multilingualism, Identities and Language Learning in Swiss classrooms and communities»; he is also responsible for the website Primary English Community.
lic.phil.Ruth Keller is the project coordinator for the new English materials Voices for grades 7-9; Christoph Suter and Daniel Stotz are authors contributing to this project.
Brigitte Achermann and lic. phil. Ruth Keller have coordinated an EDK/PHZH project: the new Englisch curriculum for grades 2-6 (primary school) in the eastern part of Switzerland.

Publications

Video Exploring English. Bildungsdirektion des Kantons Zürich: Lehrmittelverlag des Kantons Zürich, 2004 (Brigitte Achermann, Kathleen Gallagher).
«Worksheets for Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone.» With an Introduction and Key. In «Harry war hier». Ed. Thomas Hermann, Daniel Ammann & Heinz Moser. Zürich: Verlag Pestalozzianum an der Pädagogischen Hochschule Zürich, 2004, pp. 135–161 (Michael Prusse).
Themenorientierter Sachunterricht in Englisch. Forschungsbericht zu Handen der Bildungsdirektion ZH. (Rita Stebler & Daniel Stotz).
Perfect English Practice. 2 CD-ROMs for individual language learning aimed at teachers who are or will be teaching English at primary school level. Zug: Klett, 2003 (Daniel Stotz, Keith Sprague et. al.).
Evaluation «Zweisprachiger Ausbildungsgang an Mittelschulen». Schlussbericht zu Handen der Bildungsdirektion ZH. (Judith Hollenweger, Katharina Maag Merki, Rita Stebler, Michael Prusse & Markus Roos)