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Malgorzata Barras

Research assistant

+41 26 305 62 86
malgorzata.barras@unifr.ch

Research interests

  • Language acquisition and use
  • Assessing language competences
  • Migration and language policy
Research projects (direction)
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Title
Quality management system for fide language courses
Status
Completed
The SEM had issued a mandate to the Institute of Multilingualism to develop a quality strategy for fide language courses. The purpose of the strategy is to create a common understanding of fide’s didactic principles and... more
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Preparation for mandatory introduction of textbooks Clin d’œil and New World in lower-secondary schools (Progymnasial-Klassen) in Solothurn: observation and evaluation of test phase
Status
Completed
At the start of the school year 2018/2019, the Canton of Solothurn will begin the comprehensive introduction of Clin d’œil and New World, the new foreign language textbooks developed in the scope of the “Passepartout”... more
Research projects (contributor)
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Title
Teaching and learning foreign languages at school under the sign of multilingualism
Status
In progress
This project aimed to gain empirical knowledge about how learners deal with multilingual teaching approaches in the foreign language classroom and to acquire a better understanding of the potential and the functioning... more
Title
Innovative forms of assessment
Status
In progress
If the aim is to measure how well learners can actually use a foreign language, then competence-oriented testing with near-authentic tasks is the method of choice. There is, however, a need for renewal in the design of... more
Title
Task Lab: The influence of foreign-language teaching methodologies on language learning in adult migrants in low-threshold language courses
Status
Completed
In the spring of 2017, the CDIP/EDK assessed for the first time the basic skills in the first foreign language of schoolchildren at the end of primary school. On the basis of this assessment, the “Passepartout cantons... more
Title
The influence of foreign-language teaching methodologies on language learning in adult migrants in low-threshold language courses
Status
Completed
There is little verified, i.e. empirically based knowledge about how second-language courses should be best designed to meet the specific needs of adult learners in low-threshold language courses. The aim of this... more