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Eva Wiedenkeller

© Alan Humerose

Research manager

+41 26 305 62 92
eva.wiedenkeller@unifr.ch

Research interests

  • Assessing communicative competence (especially written skills)
  • Language tests
  • Teaching foreign languages at school
  • Language acquisition
Research projects (direction)
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Title
Results-based evaluation of French teaching in the 6th class (H8) in the six Passepartout cantons
Status
Completed
The six Swiss cantons located along the German-French language border (Bern, Basel Landschaft, Basel Stadt, Fribourg, Solothurn and Valais) have issued an inter-cantonal agreement on a new concept for foreign language... more
Research projects (contributor)
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Title
Verification of the attainment of the basic competences 2017 (ÜGK 2017) in the first language at the end of primary school: task development
Status
Completed
Commissioned by:  Swiss Conference of Cantonal Ministers of Education (EDK) In the spring of 2017, the Swiss Conference of Cantonal Ministers of Education conducted the first ever largescale assessment to measure... more
Title
Swiss learner corpus SWIKO
Status
In progress
Current approaches to foreign language teaching and learning focus strongly on language in use. The overarching aim is communicative competence, a consequence of, mainly, the Common European Framework of Reference (CEFR... more
Title
Using lingualevel instruments to assess skills in public schools (years 6 through 9)
Status
Completed
In this project, commissioned by NWEDK, EDK Ost and BKZ, suitable lingualevel test packages were compiled to test the levels of the foreign languages French and English in public schools in the German-speaking cantons,... more
Title
International foreign language certificate
Status
Completed
continuation of the assessment agency ZD j in 2009 This practical research project, commissioned by the Swiss Conference of Cantonal Ministers of Education (EDK), grants interested Swiss schools access to the... more