Teaching Multilingual Students During the COVID-19 Pandemic in Austria: Teachers' Perceptions of Barriers to Distance Learning.

ABSTRACT: Providing high-quality education for students with emergent proficiency in the language of instruction (referred to here as multilingual students) presents a challenge to inclusion for educational systems the world over. In Austria, a new German language support model was implemented in the school year 2018/19 which provides language support in separate classrooms up to 20 h a week. Since its implementation, the model has been strongly criticized for excluding multilingual students from the mainstream classroom, which is argued to reinforce the educational disadvantages that they face. The study presented here provides unprecedented qualitative insight into how schooling for students within the so-called German language support classes (GLSC) was organized during the COVID-19 pandemic. It

SUBMITTER: Gitschthaler M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8960454 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature