Course Topics
• Language as a medium for subject-specific learning • Educational language, technical language, school language, everyday language • Subject-specific vocabulary and concept formation • Reading and understanding factual and technical texts • Writing in subject-specific lessons: describing, explaining, justifying, comparing, arguing • Oral communication in subject teaching: classroom discussion, presenting, cooperative learning • Multilingualism as a resource in subject teaching • Language-aware lesson planning • Analysis and revision of teaching materials • Assessment of performance: balancing subject-specific and linguistic aspects

Teaching format
Group work, workshop discussion

Educational objectives
By the end of the course, students will be able to: explain the role of language in subject-specific teaching; distinguish between everyday language, educational language and technical language; analyse the linguistic demands of subject-specific tasks, texts and classroom discussions; identify typical linguistic barriers in multilingual learning groups; plan and justify scaffolding strategies for subject-specific teaching; develop targeted teaching approaches for subject-specific vocabulary, operators and text types; support oral and written language production in subject-specific teaching; incorporate learners’ multilingual resources in a pedagogically meaningful way; develop a language-aware teaching sequence for a general or subject-specific topic; critically revise their own teaching materials.

Assessment
Oral examination interview

Evaluation criteria
Accuracy of content and language, clear reasoning, reference to specialist literature