Apr 01, 2019
German for refugees from the beginning and recommendations for action
On 23 September 2017, the ZfI organised the 2nd Symposium on Deutsch für Geflüchtete von Anfang an in cooperation with Dresden für Alle. The documentation of the event has now been published as an anthology. It also contains the ten recommendations for action for German, education and work for migrants in Dresden, which were elicited by a working group after the symposium.
After a first symposium in 2016, where voluntary German language mediation practices were made visible and theory and practice were brought into dialogue, the exchange about the challenges of language acquisition and language mediation from the very beginning entered a second phase. The aim was to talk and listen to each other instead of judging each other. In joint sponsorship with the Network Dresden für Alle, with the support of the Fachverband Deutsch als Fremd- und Zweitsprache (FaDaF e.V.) and in collaboration with other cooperation partners, the 2nd Symposium Deutsch für Geflüchtete von Anfang an took place in autumn 2017, initiated, organised and documented by the Centre for Integration Studies at the TU Dresden (ZfI). This documentation reviews the repeated exchange and the joint search for topics and solutions, summarises the central results and identifies open questions that still need to be discussed in a dialogue at eye level between the actors.
The conference documentation is published as an open access publication by Rico Ehren, Ann-Kathrin Kobelt and Dr Annegret Middeke and is available here.
You will find the complete source reference as a citation suggestion below:
Ehren, Rico/Kobelt, Ann-Kathrin/Middeke, Annegret (Ed.): Deutsch für Geflüchtete von Anfang an. DaF-/DaZ-Angebote für Geflüchtete im Spannungsfeld von Theorie und Praxis, Institution und Ehrenamt. Dokumentation des 2. Fachtags. Dresden: Qucosa ( = Praxismaterialien des Zentrums für Integrationsstudien, Bd. 3), online at: http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:14-qucosa2-318024 (last call 01 April 2019).
We thank all those involved, participants, cooperation partners and sponsors for supporting the project and look forward to upcoming opportunities for exchange.
