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Katharina Karges

Research assistant

+41 26 305 62 86
katharina.karges@unifr.ch

Research interests

  • Assessment of foreign language competences and test validity
  • Foreign Language Teaching in schools
  • Individual multilingualism
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
Verification of the attainment of the Basic Competences in foreign languages at the end of compulsory schooling (ÜGK/COFO 2020)
Status
In progress
Commissioned by: Swiss Conference of Cantonal Ministers of Education  For the second time, the Swiss Conference of Cantonal Ministers of Education is verifying how well students are mastering the Basic Competences... more
Title
Assessing profession-related language skills of language teachers
Status
In progress
The aim of this project is the empirically-based development of assessments to test the profession-specific language skills in teachers of French, English and Italian as a foreign language in primary and secondary... 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
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
Mapping developmental profiles in early language learning at school
Status
Completed
In collaboration with the University of Teacher Education St. Gallen (PHSG) and the Scuola universitaria professionale della Svizzera Italiana (SUPSI)