Sprachliche Bildung im Elementarbereich in Schulbüchern für Elementarpädagoginnen und Elementarpädagogen in Ausbildung

Abstract

This article examines how the topics of early language education and support as well as language acquisition and multilingualism are anchored in textbooks and curricula at the Austrian Training Institutes for Early Childhood Education BAfEP (Bildungsanstalt für Elementarpädagogik). Curricula and approved textbooks for BAfEP according to the textbook list for the relevant subjects (especially German, English, Pedagogy) are analysed to determine which aspects of the aforementioned subject area are addressed in the textbooks and to what extent and in what thematic or didactic context this is done. The study draws on a digital corpus that was created during the coronavirus pandemic in spring 2020, when digital versions of textbooks were available free of charge. This approach is supplemented by a didactic analysis with regard to the question of which learning objectives, which knowledge and which competences are conveyed or addressed by dealing with the respective textbook content, but also which aspects of language education may be omitted in the process.