Strategies and techniques of listening comprehension in migration-related multilingual children and adolescents.

• Applicant: Professorin Dr. Evghenia Goltsev
• Subject Area: General and Domain-Specific Teaching and Learning ; Applied Linguistics, Computational Linguistics
• Term: from 2021 to 2024
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 466544668

This project aims to gain a deeper insight into the use of strategies and techniques in the process of listening comprehension in the context of migration-related multilingualism. Thus it focuses on linguistic competences as an important part of educational integration. Listening comprehension is a basis for any oral communication as well as for the acquisition of further competences. Nevertheless, to date it has been hardly researched in general and especially outside of foreign language learning against the backdrop of migration-related multilingualism. In this context, there is an almost complete lack of studies that view listening comprehension as a process in both the family language and the national language of the multilinguals. Therefore, here the aspect use of strategies and techniques which controls this process by among other things regulating access to knowledge is also largely unexplained. The project addresses these desiderata within the framework of a quantitative cross-sectional study. Therefore, the project will gather strategies and techniques of the listening comprehension process, such as the recognition and comprehension of individual sounds, words and sentences or longer texts as well as respective products. The focus group consists of adolescents, pupils of lower secondary level who have been living in Germany since birth or early childhood and speak Russian as a family language in addition to German comprise the focus group. This group will be compared to participants of the same age who grew up speaking German monolingually. Based on the acquired data - in the sense of basic research that can be used for further investigations and application - questions on the specifics within the use of strategies and techniques in the groups studied, within the languages of the focus group as well as about the role of the strategies and techniques in the listening comprehension process are addressed.

• DFG Programme: Research Grants