A new Language and Integration Policy
Germany
The Implementation of a nation wide
Integration Course
Carola Cichos
Federal Office for Migration and Refugees
Germany
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1 January 2005
– Act of Residence, Gainful Employment and
Integration of Foreigners on Federal Territory
– Ordinance on the Implementation of Integration
Courses for Foreigners and Ethnic German
Resettlers
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Results
– More than 550.000 entitlements
– 360.000 course participants attending a course
– 200.000 participants completed the course
– 50% reached competence level B1 (CEF)
– 2/3 of participants are women
– 2/3 of participants attend the course voluntarily
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Survey 2007 / 2008 courses
with 3960 participants
– 80% of participants wanted to improve their
competence of the German language
– 77% hoped to get better access to the labour
market
– 70% considered the learning rate absolutely
right
– 78% were highly satisfied with the course
– 2,5% didn't like the course at all
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Institutions / Teaching staff
– 1.900 approved organisations
– 6.000 locations
– 1/3 publicly funded adult education centres
(Volkshochschulen)
– Offer nearly 50% of all courses
– Teaching staff either highly qualified (2/3)
or attending a specially-developed skill building
programme (1/3)
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Integration Course 2005
– 600 lessons – Language Course
– 30 lessons – Civic Orientation (Orientation
Course)
– Educational objective – B1 (CEF)
– Participant related invoicing 2,05 € / lesson
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Evaluation 2006
Shortcomings
– Improving quota of goal achievement
– Reducing bureaucracy
– Better funding of the courses
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Course improvements since 2007
Organisational and financial improvements
– Expansion of course access
(e.g. for Germans with migration background)
– Incentives
(e.g. refund of participant's contribution)
– Increased course funding
(2,35 € per participant / lesson)
– Increased funding of child care during lessons
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Pedagogical improvements
– Tailor-made course concepts
(e.g. for illiterates)
– Extension of lessons per language course (max.
1.200 lessons)
(900 lessons for special courses and possibility
to repeat another 300 lessons)
– New common curriculum for language course
was established (German as a second language)
– Extension of lessons per Orientation Course (45
lessons)
– New standardised curriculum for Orientation
Course
– New grading test
– New final test (adaptive A2 – B1)
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Teaching staff
– 10.000 teachers
– 5.000 are graduates of Universities
(e.g. German as a second language or Teachers
of German)
– Special skill-building programme for those who
haven't a final degree in German as a second
language
– 2.500 have received special training
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Panel-survey
– Since 2007 representative survey
– 3 steps (at course beginning, at the end and a
year after completing the course)
– 280 courses with 3.960 participants vs. nonparticipants
– Goal: to measure and review sustainable
integration success
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