Aim
Classrooms around the globe becoming more and more diversed, both in terms of cultural background and languages spoken in the classrooms. QuiCC (Quality in Culturally Diverse Classrooms) is a small-scale qualitative project which aims to explore what constitutes quality in teaching in relation to culturally diverse/plurilingual students in Nordic classrooms.
The study makes use of existing data produced by projects within the QUINT research centre, mainly video data from LISA Nordic Study (Linking Instruction & Student Achievement”.
The group is interested in following:
- How are teachers making use of multiple languages that students bring to the classroom as their mother tongue?
- How are multiple languages presented by teachers in the classroom?
- How are plurilingual students supported in their learning?
- What does scaffolding mean in multicultural classrooms?
- How does the classroom environment stimulate the student as a language learner (additional language)?
This project is part of the theme one “Studying teaching quality” within QUINT.